SLED Advisory Group Documentation

Automatic Additions to SLED

• Official City and Borough sites to Alaska Communities page
• Chamber of Commerce sites to Alaska Chambers of Commerce page
• Official Convention & Visitor's Bureau sites to the Community Travel Guides & Convention and Visitor's Bureaus page. (If there is no official government page for the community, add the C&VB or Chamber of Commerce page to the AK Communities page as well.)
• Private Travel sites: If a community has no official C&VB site but there is a good private site that covers the community, add that to the Community Travel/C&VB page. If that community has no official government page or Chamber of Commerce page, add the private travel site to the Alaska Communities page as well as to the Community Travel/C&VB page.
• University and College sites to Alaska Colleges and Universities page
• Official Native Corporation sites to Alaska Business page
• Official Alaska Internet Provider sites to Alaska Business page
• Official Alaska Library Web pages and Alaska Library Associations Web pages to List of Alaskan Library Web Pages

We are trying to keep community specific sites off of the Tourist Information page as it was getting too cluttered and long. Those pages should go on the ALASKA COMMUNITY TRAVEL GUIDES & VISITOR'S BUREAUS page instead (see note above).

Collection Development Area Assignments

• Alaska Communities - Daniel Cornwall
• Arts, Literature & History - Sara Jeffress
• Business & Commercial - Trina Carter
• Culture & Religion - Trina Carter
• Daily Living, Recreation & Sports - VACANT
• Education - Sally Bremner
• Environment, Science & Natural Resources - Debbie Gravel
• Genealogy - VACANT
• Government & Law - Daniel Cornwall
• Health, Disabilities & Social Services - Sally Bremner
• Job & Employment Resources - Suzan Hahn
• Kid's Stuff - Sara Jeffress
• Library Catalogs & Resources - Suzan Hahn
• Native & Indigenous Peoples - Sally Bremner
• News & Weather - Daniel Cornwall
• Reference Desk - Daniel Cornwall
• Teen Express - Debbie Gravel
• Tourist Information - Suzan Hahn
• Web Search Tools - Everybody
• Hot Topics - Everybody submits to Chair

Collection Development Coordinator Duties

The SLED Advisory Group will have a designated CD Coordinator to guide the group through the process of evaluating and selecting sites for SLED. The CD Coordinator position will rotate among the group members, usually in 2-month stints. Individuals are encouraged to volunteer for the responsibility.

• To receive proposed sites from members throughout the month. Often the CD Coordinator sends a reminder to members via SLED-L.
• The CD coordinator shall review the weekly Friday Bulletins for web sites that might be added to SLED, at his/her discretion.
• Send proposed site addresses, names and recommended SLED areas to the staff in Fairbanks (Lisa Fjellheim) for placement on Re-SLED. This is usually done about 7-10 days before the teleconference.
• The staff in Fairbanks will notify the CD Coordinator when proposed sites have been placed on Re-SLED. The CD Coordinator will then alert the Advisory Group members so that voting can begin.
• Before the teleconference, the CD Coordinator must print off any comments made on Re-SLED and the vote tallies. This is usually done the morning of the teleconference.
• During the teleconference, the CD Coordinator reads off the voting results for each site and keeps the discussion on sites moving.
• Please keep the number of sites on ReSLED to 10 or less. If there are more submitted, the Coordinator has the right to choose the 10 best for ReSLED.
• The remaining sites can either be dropped or saved for the next month's ReSLED.

Subject Area Guidelines

• Review existing links in your area.
  The first thing to do is make sure the existing links in your subject area are working. Go to your subject area at least once a month and try them. Also check to see that the links take you where you really want to go. Sometimes additional web pages are added between the home page and good information. We want the SLED link to take people to the most efficient starting page. Do check to see if the site creator can be identified or if a link to the site's home page can be made from the starting page you choose.

  Occasionally, check the link to see that it is being updated regularly. Stale pages with dysfunctional maintenance records may need to be removed. Let our staff in Fairbanks know of any address problems. (Lisa F. is the person to contact with such problems at: fxlmf@uaf.edu) Recommend any "problem" pages to the CD Coordinator for group review.

• Find new resources in your subject area.
  The second thing is to improve the subject area. As you review the area you will become aware of its strengths and weaknesses. Through web searching, informal discussions with friends or colleagues, professional reading or events or personal research, you often find good sites for SLED. Pass the sites directly on to the CD Coordinator to be reviewed by the group. Pass sites that are not in your subject area directly on to the subject selector in that area. Recommend at least one new site in your subject area every three months. Whenever possible test the recommended sites using Lynx or another text based browser before submitting.

• Review and vote on new sites.
  The final thing is to review and vote on all new web pages collected by the CD Coordinator. New sites will be listed on the "voting form" web page. This is located at: http://sled.alaska.edu/resled. Review and comment on content, ease of use, graphical and text access and any other aspect that is important to a particular site. Try to finish your voting a couple of days before the next meeting. At the end of the review period, the CD Coordinator will tabulate votes and present the vote totals and comments at the next meeting. If the vote is close, the CD Coordinator or any member of the Advisory Group may request that further review or discussion is needed. The CD Coordinator will alert the staff in Fairbanks to add approved sites or to remove unsatisfactory sites.