Please excuse duplicate postings. In an effort to reach the largest audience possible, this survey has been posted to several lists.
The AALL Briefs in Law Librarianship series editor, Bobbie Studwell, needs your help. Please take a few minutes to answer the survey attached below and replicated in this e-mail message. Your answers to these questions are very important and will be analyzed and presented by the Survey's author, D.R. Jones, in an upcoming Briefs in Law Librarianship document. Please participate! Your answers are very important, and the survey results will be more useful to all of us if there is broad participation.
Please coordinate with others in your institution and return only one reply, no later than March 12, 2001.
Thank you in advance!
AALL Survey: Web Site Development and Management
By D.R. Jones
Case Western Reserve University Law Library
Name of Law Library : ________________________________
City and State: _______________________________________
Your Name: _______________________________
Your Title: ________________________________
Telephone: ______________________ Email: ____________________________
Type of Law Library (check applicable category)
___ Law Firm Library
___ Law School Library
___ County, Court or Public Law Library
___ Business or Corporate Law Library - approximate number of attorneys_____
___ Other - please specify: ______________________
1. ___ Does your library currently maintain a website?
___ No. Please list reasons why your library does not have a website, and return the survey:
_________________________________________________________________________
___ Yes (continue with the survey)
2. Does your institution/organization have:
___ An Intranet
___ An Extranet
___ Both
3. ___ Does your library have a website that is accessible through (check all that apply):
___ The Internet
___ An Intranet
___ An Extranet
4. Does your institution/ organization use vendor-created Intranet modules, such as LEXIS Intranet Solutions, or other web tools such as TWEN?
___ Yes. We use: ____________________________________________________________
___ No
5.a. Does your institution/organization employ a webmaster for the institution/organization?
__ Yes
__ No
5.b. Please give the title(s) of the webmaster's supervisor(s): _______________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
5.c. In addition to the webmaster, how many people are devoted full or part time to the development and management of the institution/organization website: __________________________________________
6.a. Does the Library have a webmaster just for its site?
__ Yes
__ No
6.b. Is this person:
___ A librarian
___ A professional webmaster
___ Other: _______________________________________
6.c. Please give the title(s) of the library webmaster's supervisor(s): _____________________________________________________
6.d. In addition to the library webmaster, how many people are devoted full or part time to the development and management of the library website?
7. Are students employed to assist with:
___ The institution/organization website. List how many student hours per year: _______
___ The library website. List how many student hours per year: ______
8. How is the library site updated?
___ One person makes all changes
___ Responsibility for updating is shared by several people
Comments: ___________________________________________
9. How frequently do you update the library website?
___ Daily
___ Infrequently
___ Weekly
___ Several times a week
___ Monthly
10. Describe who has responsibility for providing and updating content for the institution/organization website (for example, department heads are responsible): ________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
11.a. Does the library outsource any types of web-related projects? What kinds?
11.b. Does your institution/organization outsource any types of web-related projects? What kinds?
12. On your library website do you have:
___ Cascading Style Sheets
___ Information in a database that is maintained by updating the database directly (for example, a database containing staff directory information)
___ Information in a database that is updating by using forms (for example, a database containing staff directory information that is updated by entering changes in a form on a web page)
13. If you maintain information on your library website in databases, do you use:
___ ASP
___ PHP
___ Perl
___ Cold Fusion
___ Other: _______________________________________________________
14. If you maintain information on your library website in databases, what type(s) of databases do you use (check all that apply)?
___ Access
___ SQL Server 6.5/7
___ MySQL
___ Other: __________________________________________________
15. If you maintain information on your library website in databases, what type of information do you maintain in databases?
16. On what platform does your library have web servers?
___ UNIX
___ Windows NT/2000
___ Other: _______________________________________
17. What type of web server is used for the library site?
__ Apache
__ Microsoft Internet Information Server
__ Other: _________________________________________
18.a. In developing (or redesigning) your library website, has the Library sought user input?
___ Yes
___ No
18.b. If yes, have you used:
___ Focus Groups
___ Surveys
___ User Testing
___ Other
19.a. Does the Library gather site statistics for its website?
___ Yes
___ No
19.b. If you answered yes, does the library gather statistics concerning:
___ Hits on the main page?
___ Hits on all pages?
19.c. If the Library gathers site statistics, please indicate the tracking software (such as Webtrends) that you use: __________________________________________________________________________________
19.d. Does the Library use cookies in connection with its site?
___ Yes
___ No
20. If your institution has an intranet, what types of materials are on the intranet? (check all that apply):
___ Policy and procedure manuals
___ Routing information
___ Phone and contact lists
___ Access to subscription databases
___ Access to brief and memo banks
___ Forms for staff use
___ Forms for faculty and students/attorneys/judges to use
___ Client/matter information
___ Calendars and schedules, such as classroom or conference room schedules
___ Others (include both library and non-library related materials):
21. Does the Library maintain any of the following types of customized web pages?
____ Pages for specific practice groups/ subject areas
____ Pages for specific classes
____ Pages that can be customized for individuals
Comments: _________________________________
22. Do librarians assist faculty/attorneys/judges in creating:
___ personal web pages
___ class web pages
___ practice group/law center/subject area pages
___ other pages:
23. Do the developers of library web pages in your library use:
___ FrontPage
___ Dreamweaver
___ Other: __________________________________________
24. Please write any comments you have about web design and development at your institution: _________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
25. Please list information you would like to know in connection with web design and development:
_________________________________________________________________________________
If available, please submit: a copy of the copyright release form and your library's/institutions web policies and procedures; web style guides; job descriptions for web-related positions; examples of database driven portions of the library's website; outlines of materials on the library's/institution's intranet and extranet; charts or other materials that set out responsibilities for web site updating; and any other materials that you deem pertinent in connection with the development and management of the library or institution website.
Copyright Release Form for the Briefs in Law Librarianship Series
Send your policy statements or related documents along with this completed form in paper/fax copy to the author as indicated in the cover letter or to:
Bobbie Studwell
Editor, Briefs in Law Librarianship
Thomas M. Cooley Law Library
P.O. Box 13038
Lansing, MI 48901
Fax: 517-
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The undersigned author has submitted a manuscript entitled:
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
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Author's signature: ______________________________________ Date: ____________
Author's Name Printed: ____________________________________________________
Institution or company: _____________________________________________________
Check one:
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Bobbie Studwell
Associate Dean for Library and Information Services
The Thomas M. Cooley Law School
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