What is a Webography?
Annotated, evaluated resources selected for University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension Staff and Faculty. Webographies are not designed to be comprehensive. Instead, they are designed to highlight some of the better resources available so Extension personnel can quickly find useful materials. Webographies usually have the URL as part of the description of a site so they can be printed out as handouts. They also have a table of contents for quick navigation and a link to the person responsible for compiling and maintaining the page. Webographies are found as a link from the University of Wisconsin-Extension Cooperative Extension Home Page under Program Support/Library Services.
What Kinds of Resources are in a Webography?
Resources typically include Internet resources that anyone can get to. They can also include licensed library resources available to UW Extension staff and faculty with UW-Madison IDs or via requests to AskSteenbock for customized searches.
Who Can Compile a Webography?
Anyone in University of Wisconsin--Cooperative Extension who has:
- the support and expertise to compile and maintain annotated links,
- is selective about what they annotate using evaluative criteria,
- a table of contents section,
- a name and email link for comments about the page,
- follows the general UW-Extension Web policies and guidelines,
- and the proposed webography has Barbara Lazewski's approval.
The CE Web Design Team gave Barbara Lazewski, professional librarian at UW-Madison's Steenbock Library with a 20% joint appointment with Cooperative Extension, the responsibility of deciding what can be considered a webography at their 8/13/97 meeting. If you have a webography you want Barbara to make a link here, send the URL or a copy of the proposed page to Barbara Lazewski.
How are Sites Selected for Webographies?
Sites for webographies are reviewed against evaluative criteria found at http://www.library.wisc.edu/instruction/instmat/webeval.htm. Sites recommended by agents and specialists get higher priority for inclusion as they have proven value "in the field". Contact Barbara Lazewski if you have sites you want added. If possible, suggest which webography and section you think your suggested site(s) should be placed. Other sites are identified by search engine searches or from links from reputable .gov and .edu sites. Barbara tries to make a mixture of links to comprehensive sites as starting points in a section area as well as to more specific pages with information.
How Can I Get Subject Sections Added to a Webography?
Contact Barbara Lazewski by email or phone her at (608-263-3899), or write her at Steenbock Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 550 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706. Suggest a subject section to be added, and if possible, send your favorite URL's to be considered. Barbara will review your suggested subject against the program direction issues. If there is a direct connection, she will add a section as soon as possible. If there is any question about if a section should be added, she will contact the program issue team leader for guidance in prioritizing proposed sections. Because Barbara only has a 20% Extension appointment, there can be a delay in adding sections as her first priority is in maintaining existing webographies.
Will You do a New Webography for Me?
Barbara prefers to add new sections to existing webographies that go along with CE Program Teams. Barbara only has a 20% Extension appointment and maintaining existing webographies is quite time consuming. However, sections of program direction webographies can become more comprehensive--a mini webography--which can be linked to an existing webography and printed separately. Program issue team leaders may be contacted for guidance in prioritizing new webography sections.