General Updates & Maintenance
- Make changes and updates as requested by officers of the Executive Board and committee chairs.
- Remove announcements two-four weeks after posting or when deadline has passed.
- Every month highlight a new project or publication in the Project or Publication of Month space on the home page.
- Check all links to external sites at least every six months.
- If broken links are found and a simple resolution is not available, contact appropriate committee chair to determine course of action.
- Update the Committee Charges page, as well as pages that contain the Chair’s contact information.
- Update the documents “Tips for the IS Web Administrator,” “Tips for Web Pages,” “Web Site Maintenance Guidelines,” “Tips for Committee, Publication, & Project Web Pages,” and “File Naming Conventions” as needed.
- Ensure new content and major modifications have been approved by the Executive Committee or assigned committee liaison.
Annual Updates
Immediately after Annual Conference (Beginning of the new appointment year)
- As needed, update any IS Administrators or Editor information on the respective job description pages
- Update Committee Charges page to delete task forces or committees that have ended their work and verify the roster links.
- Committee Roster links typically remain the same from year to year
- Links are maintained on the ACRL Section Committee Roster pages
- Actual rosters are populated by the ACRL/ALA membership databases. Errors should be reported to the ACRL web liaison.
- Local Arrangements has two chair entries – one for Midwinter and one for Annual
- Two committees maintain two roster links that rotate every other year
- Conference Planning Committee – one for current year’s Annual conference and one for the next year’s Annual Conference
- Nominating – one for the current year and one for the next year
Note: This committee’s appointments take effect in March and the roster is updated at that time; the new chair of the Nominating committee is usually the IS Past Chair from two years prior. - Use a <comment> tag to “hide” a roster not yet populated
- Update Executive Committee / Advisory Council roster page with new chair information.
- Update list on the Past Chairs web page.
- Send the chair login information to the new chairs and vice chairs
- Review content on the Archived IS Webinars page. Delete content that is more than 3 years old.
- Update email alerts for submissions on any applicable forms (e.g., social media, nominations, newsletter, website).