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