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Library Community Web Guidelines Back in October, there was interest on the Code4Lib and LITA listservs in creating a document about best practices for library websites. The goal is to publish a document that is stamped by ALA via LITA that librarians can use to guide web-related decision-making and to justify those decisions to colleagues and administrators. A good summary of the project is on the front page of the repo. At this early stage, the focus is on research. We want to compile as many sources as possible that are related to various aspects of usability, accessibility, and website management. We want books, scholarly articles, and web articles. Once we’ve reached a critical mass, we will start to evaluate the sources. Now that the inter-semester lull is about to begin, this is an opportune time for many of us in the academic world to work on such a project. Rather than congest the listservs with dozens of back-and-forth messages, I created a Github repo that can be used by anyone interested in contributing. If you are not a Git person, no worries. Most of the work and communication is going to take place in the project’s wiki and issue tracker, which both require no Git knowledge. If you’d like to volunteer, please reply at the link below. I will add you as a collaborator. Since interest in this project spans multiple listservs, let’s try to keep most communication either in the Github issue tracker or the Ost.io discussion forum that is linked to the Github repo. Volunteer Signup: *https://github.com/jswelker/library-web-guidelines/issues/3* <https://github.com/jswelker/library-web-guidelines/issues/3> Github repo: *https://github.com/jswelker/library-web-guidelines* <https://github.com/jswelker/library-web-guidelines> Ost.io discussion forum: *http://ost.io/@jswelker/library-web-guidelines* <http://ost.io/@jswelker/library-web-guidelines> Apologies for cross-posting. Josh Welker Information Technology Librarian James C. Kirkpatrick Library University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, MO 64093 JCKL 2260 660.543.8022