ALA GODORT State & Local Documents Task Force Toolbox
Guidelines, Best Practices, and Policy
This section of the SLDTF Toolbox lists Web sites and other publications where guidelines, best practices, and policy can be found related to state or local governments. In addition to the more traditional state/local publications, whether in hard-copy or electronic formats, these guidelines, best practices, and policy can refer to state or local governments' Web sites in general.
Commonwealth of Kentucky Strategic Information Technology Plan. July 1997.
<http://www.state.ky.us/kirm/sitp/sitp.htm>
[Although written in 1997, some of the basic concepts are still valid. This a complex, detailed plan, with links to related plans].
LII Backgrounder: State Law on the Net
[The Legal Information Institute (LII) conducts an annual review and update on "state legal materials accessible on the Net from non-fee sites" and has an "Honor Roll" list of states doing an exemplary job]
McClure, Charles R. and J. Timothy Ph. D. Sprehe. Guidelines for Electronic Records Management on State and Federal Agency Websites. January 1998.
<http://istweb.syr.edu/~mcclure/guidelines.html>
[This report provides some definitions, policies, procedures, "best practices," etc., involved with Electronic Records Management (ERM)]
NASCIO Recognition Awards
<https://www.nascio.org/awards/index.cfm>
[The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) selects winners annually for state IT programs and systems that "have created proven cost effective, innovative solutions in the operation of state government." Examples of some the award categories are: accessibility (providing access to persons with disabilities) and three "Digital Government" awards - Government to Business, Government to Citizen, and Government to Government. See at the bottom of the page for links to previous years' winners]
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