Stephen Clark reported that the Electronic Communications Committee has its first meeting on Feb. 1st. The committee is focusing on web access and are wondering if they should change their name. They brainstormed about public v. private materials on the web page. Guidelines are needed for the kinds of things that should be on the web, especially publications. She simply drops out of date links.
More work is needed to develop reasonable guidelines.
Or documents could be mounted on a different server until ready for public consumption. S. Clark asked about ALA's position on archiving. PLA and LITA have their own home pages not connected to the ALA server. Archiving all web stuff is an interesting idea. S. Somers said there was a push to bring all ALA publications together on the ALA home page -not have them done independently.