Network Zone Documentation

Working Group

Working Group Charge

The Network Zone Documentation Working Group is charged with selecting and implementing a documentation platform for the Network Zone project, to host both existing and future documentation and make it accessible to both Network Zone members and the general public where appropriate.

In alignment with the Network Zone project's guiding principles and values, the Network Zone Documentation Working Group is committed to prioritizing shared workflows and consensus in all aspects of its work.

Responsibilities

  • Create a prioritized list of goals for the documentation platform, and engage with other Network Zone communities of practice and working groups to gather input.
  • Review potential documentation platforms and select one platform to implement.

  • Develop standards for consistency in structure, content, formatting and presentation of documentation
    Develop and implement a process for migrating existing documentation to the new platform.

  • Train Network Zone communities of practice and working groups on adding new documentation to the platform, and work with them to compile lists of known documentation (already-created or not-yet-created) that need to be added to the new platform

  • Create a plan for ongoing oversight and review of material in the documentation platform, to ensure consistency and currency.

Conveners

Rebecca McCallum
Co-Chair
Head of Cataloging
Wesleyan University
rmccallum@wesleyan.edu

Sarika Sharma
Co-Chair
Science Data Librarian
Middlebury College
sharmas@middlebury.edu

Membership

The Network Zone Documentation working group will include as many staff as are interested in participating from Network Zone member institutions.

Membership is reviewed and renewed each June, beginning June 2026.

Meetings

The Documentation Working Group will meet bi-weekly, with additional meetings as-needed.

 

FY26 Documentation Working Group Roster

Sarika Sharma
Co-Chair
Science Data Librarian
Middlebury College
sharmas@middlebury.edu

Rebecca McCallum
Co-Chair
Head of Cataloging
Wesleyan University
rmccallum@wesleyan.edu

Lisa Cavalear
Catalog Librarian
Middlebury College
lcavalear@middlebury.edu

Emily Aylward 
Manager Access Services
Connecticut College
eaylward@conncoll.edu

Jennifer Hadley
Library Assistant V/Music Outreach and Collections Assistant
Wesleyan University
jthom@wesleyan.edu