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Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=10061, phase=CONNECT, target=127.0.0.1:2306). The server is probably not started. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Apologies to all for sending this as an attachment. Here is the text version of the session proposal. Judy Donovan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- ARLIS session proposal: "Too much of a good thing? Selection, Management and Collection Development of Art/Design Web Sites The number of art and design-related web sites is growing at an almost unmanageable pace. Just several years ago, the number of sites seemed comparable to the number of key reference sources in a subsection of the N's in anyone's reference department. Now there are enough sitesmany of them of high caliberto make up a small electronic art library. And more "snow" keeps falling every day. Many art librarians maintain informational reference web pages where they collect art/design sites for student use, grouping them by subject or classifying them in some other way. Maintaining this online reference collection of useful sites is becoming an exausting enterprise because links have to be checked periodically to see if sites have moved, new sites are appearing every day that are good candidates for inclusion, and, if one is to be thorough in what gets included, the sheer number of sites listed on a reference page can be a real turn-off to students looking for answers to specific questions. Not to mention a time-consuming headache for the librarian who must arrange and keep track of the information on the page. In this new electronic environment (the Internet) the lines between a 'ready reference' collection online and a veritable online 'electronic art library' are still very fuzzy. How do we keep control of these "free" collections? Should they be cataloged and added to the OPAC? If cataloging is not the answer, is there a method to keeping the sheer number of sites listed on a reference page to a thorough-yet-not-overwhelming number? Are we 'collecting' these sites because they are free and of high quality or just because they're about art and are freely available? Would we make the same selection decisions if there were subscription charges for making these sites available on our institutions' web sites? Has the situation evolved far enough to generate a core list of web sites for art library reference collections? This panel will address some of the issues involved in maintaining good art/design electronic reference pages on an institutional web site, including evaluation for quality and usefulness as a reference tool, "core collection" issues, keeping current with new sites, and how to identify when you've put too much non-reference material online which you ought to be cataloging some sites for your OPAC. Judy Donovan Design Arts Librarian Hagerty Library Drexel University 33rd and Market Streets Philadelphia PA 19104 phone: 215-895-2768 fax: 215-895-2070 email: [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask]