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Web Advisory Group

Charge:
The Library’s Web Advisory Group (WAG) convenes to advise, educate, collaborate, coordinate, gather input, translate, and act as a sounding board for the Manager of the Web Publishing Group (WPG). It has one subcommittee, the Web Implementation Group (WIG).

The Web Advisory Group:

  • creates guidelines to ensure and promote OskiCat's public catalog principles
  • reviews and implements minor proposed changes to OskiCat's public interface
  • reviews and refers to the ILS Advisory Group, policy suggestions and major changes to OskiCat's public interface
  • creates a vision and mission for the Library website
  • defines the scope of the website
  • defines roles and responsibilities
  • decides priorities
  • develops policies, procedures, standards and guidelines for the website in concert with campus and University of California System policies
  • recommends best way to ensure ongoing evolution and viability
  • recommends and oversees usability testing
  • defines new tools to enhance user productivity and enable easy compliance with procedures and standards developed
  • creates task groups to pull in additional Library staff and users for input on specific issues.

Membership:
Term: Committee members will serve for two years. Appointments are staggered so that half of the committee turns over every June.

Committee year: July - June.
To provide input from all shareholders, the Advisory Group will include representation from the Public Service Council, each Subject Council, Technical Services, Collections Council, and Systems Office. The AUL/Director for Public Services will be an ex officio member of this Council. The Manager of the Web Publishing Group is the Library Web Manager, and chairs the Web Advisory Group.

Chair:
Lynne Grigsby (Manager, Web Publishing Group)

Roster:
Char Booth (Doe/Moffitt Instructional Services)
Tim Dennis (Social Sciences Council)
Ari Kleiman (Sciences Council)
Lee Anne Kolker/Mary Elings (The Bancroft Library)
John Kupersmith (Public Services Council)
Kendra Levine (Affiliated Libraries)
Matthew Prutsman (Arts & Humanities Council)
Hilary Schiraldi (Collections Council)
Isabel Stirling (ex officio AUL/Director Public Services)
Steve LaFollette (Technical Services)
Lisa Weber (Library Webmaster)
Bruce Williams (East Asian Library)

Meeting schedule:
Second Tuesday, 1-2:30pm, 289 Doe Annex (LSO/LAP conference room)

E-mail list:
wag[@lists.berkeley.edu]

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