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Best Practices -- GODORT Website Design and Development

Terminology

Delegate - A status given to someone other than the primary owner of a gmail account in order to allow this person access to send and receive email from the owner's gmail account.

Directory - Listing of all GODORT leadership, committees, taskforce, and interest group members. The Directory is updated yearly after the Annual meeting when new members are selected.

Minutes - Each committee, taskforce, and interest group documents each meeting. At a minimum, the minutes for the Midwinter and Annual meetings are added to the GODORT website. The Technology committee recommends that all meeting minutes be posted to the GODORT minutes' page.

PPM - The GODORT Policy and Procedures Manual is updated based on need. The GODORT Steering Committee approves changes when necessary.

Steering Committee - The leadership of GODORT.

 

Naming Convention

All content added to the GODORT web pages will have file names that relate to the content and allow for easy maintenance.

Directory (current): http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/directory

  • When the current year is over, this file will be renamed with the years that it covered and linked from the Past Directories page.
  • Example: directory becomes 2019-20-directory

Past Directories: http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/past-directories

Resolutions: http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/resolutions

Minutes

Minutes will be uploaded to the GODORT web site as a PDF format document

The correct file naming for GODORT is: abbreviation or name as listed below_(underscore)YYYYMMDD_(underscore)meetingminutes or annualminutes or midwinterminutes.pdf

  • example: technology_20200819_meetingminutes.pdf

Committee Abbreviations/Name

Each committee's minutes have a unique directory/folder

Bylaws = bylaws

Cataloging = cataloging

Consolidated = consolidated

Education = education

Government Information for Children = GIC

GITCO = GITCO

Legislation = legislation

Membership = generalmembership

Program = program

Publications = publications

Rare and Endangered Government Publications = regp

Social Media and Outreach = socmed

Steering = steering

Technology = technology

Web Managers = web

Federal Documents Task Force = fdtf

Federal Information Interest Group = fdig

International Documents Task Force = idtf

State and Local Government Documents = sldtf