Committee Planning Report

NOTE: ** = Required Field

 

 

**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report

 

**Date: 10/17/2003

 

 

**Committee Name:  Web Committee

 

 

 

**Supervising Board Member:  Marilyn Ochoa

 

 

 

**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs:  Chair: Debra Andreadis, Assistant Chair: Steve Brantley

 

 

 

**Committee members:  Debra Andreadis, Steve Brantley, Katie Dunneback, Violet Le

 

 

 

**Committee Charge: The NMRT Web Committee serves as the NMRT Web site manager and the liaison to ALA's Web staff.  The Committee's responsibilities include developing and recommending editorial policies, procedures, and guidelines for publishing and disseminating information on the NMRT Web site; making recommendations to improve content, organization, design, and enhancements that will meet the needs of members; and maintaining the Web site by adding submitted pages and modifying existing pages according to established guidelines.

 

 

 

**2003 - 2004 Project Description / Goals: 

 

1)      Web Maintenance

a)      Immediate needs maintenance – we will continue to post documents and updates to the current web site on an ongoing basis.

b)      We will continue to transfer items from the old website to the new database management system.

2)      Web site overhaul.

a)      Determine navigation links that need to be in place on the website.

b)      Put in place a procedure for moving Footnotes to the new server in collaboration with the Footnotes Committee.

c)      Work with all committees to get updated information on the new server.

3)      Web Documentation.

a)      Web posting guidelines for all committees reflecting the changes to the ALA server.

b)      Documentation of which committees have direct access to the ALA server and who will be handling those committees web needs.

 

**Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products): 

 

1.      New documentation concerning posting of websites and delimiting the committees and people involved.

2.      Moving Footnotes to the ALA server by May 2003.

3.      Get input from committee liaisons on what each committee needs on the new website.

 

 

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget)

a. $0

Amount which you have spent so far this year

b.

Your estimated additional expenses this year

c.

Total of amount spent and additional "estimated" expenses for this year (b+c)

d.

Difference between budgeted amount and total expenses from above (a-d)

e.

 

f. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year (either money or in-kind gifts), list here: 

n/a

 

 

g. Vendor support requested: (From the above list, what, if any, has been requested from the Exhibitor Contact and Relations Committee?)

n/a

 

 

h. Vendor support received: (From the above list, what if any, has been received?)

n/a

                                                     

Specific Needs/Support (non-financial): (For the categories below, please include approximate date service needed)

a. Web Support (help with webpage creation, web form creation, web database, web database, scripting, etc): 

n/a

 

 

b. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated numbers needed and brief job description)

n/a

 

c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.): 

Footnotes article on website input needed.

 

 

 

**Report submitted by:  Debra Andreadis

 

**Email address:  andreadisd@denison.edu