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February 16, 2004
Small victories
While wandering around the Internet Archive yesterday, I discovered that my library school's website had a robot exclusion file up -- none of its pages were in the Archive. I e-mailed the webmaster to ask if there was a specific policy/decision behind this. She replied that as far as she knew, there was no policy behind it, and she'd be changing the file so that the site would be archived by IA from now on.
Yay! Although I believe it'll take another 6 months to get the school's content accessible via the Wayback Machine. Still, it's a start ...
Posted by misseli at February 16, 2004 04:50 PM
Comments
Go, you! As library schools dwindle away, it's crucial to preserve our little slice of history....
Posted by: Vera at February 17, 2004 06:53 PM