Hi all,
This has been a great discussion so far!
In addition to hearing from the general user community, I'm also
interested in hearing from the vendors who are part of our community.
Please let us know what you think because I think we ultimately want to
strike a balance between providing useful information to our users while
also not imposing an undue burden on our vendor community.
Thanks!
Kathy
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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On 9/8/2014 1:28 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote:
No, I thank you for bringing up those points and I think you're right
we do seem to have a slightly differently view of the intent and so
these discussions are good to have. I hope we will hear from more folks!
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Sharp, Chris
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks again, Rogan, for the continued discussion on this. I'm
glad we're able to air our respective opinions.
> There was some discussion during the meeting about it being
suggested
> versus required. To me those elements that make it more user
> friendly should be required or we start diluting the purpose.
Ah, here is where I think we're disagreeing. From my perspective,
the purpose of the vendor page is to provide a simple directory
that gives our project's end users pointers toward potential
vendors for support. What happens after the user sees these
listings is beyond the scope of that purpose, as I see things. I
think our responsibility from the Evergreen community side ends at
making sure to the best of our ability that the listings *on the
page itself* are up-to-date and accurate. I see a clear dividing
line between that responsibility and the responsibility of the
vendors to keep their web pages up to date. I'm not generally for
laissez faire policies, but in this case, it seems that vendors
will do what's best to communicate their services to users without
us needing to add requirements to do so.
Having said that, I'm satisfied that I've been heard and I'll be
quiet now and let community consensus decide whether or not this
requirement becomes part of our vendor listing policy.
Thanks for hearing me out,
Chris
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Georgia Public Library Service
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Atlanta, Georgia 30345
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Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
York County Library System
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suit me.”
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