• Provide a comprehensive directory of organizations, resources, services and events in the Wauconda Area or of interest to the the Wauconda Area community, with links to area websites and information.
• Provide a Community Calendar, a web-based cooperative service that provides Wauconda area residents with one-click access to local happenings. Its purpose is to keep everyone with Internet access up-to-date on events and public meetings being held throughout the community.
• Provide free server space to Wauconda Area organizations so that they can develop their own web presence.
   

View all local organizations now participating in the Wauconda Area Community Information Network by clicking here.
 

• Low cost (free use of NSN server, inexpensive training classes).
   
• Visibility on the World Wide Web.
   
• Provide current information about your entity to the community.
   

• Information Providers must be able to meet the standards of the Wauconda Area Community Information Network Mission Statement and Information Provider Guidelines
• Print out, sign, and submit an Information Provider form to the local NSN contact at the Wauconda Area Library.
• Create a home page.
• Work with the library coordinator to upload the page.
• Keep information on your page current.
   

• be available to answer questions from Information Providers about the content and organization of World Wide Web (WWW) pages;
• work with NSLS to set up accounts for Information Providers;
• establish links to Information Provider pages from the Community Information Network ;
• and will notify Information Providers if the information on their page is out-of-date or in some other way not conforming to NSN guidelines.
   

• Be physically located in the Wauconda Area.  This area is defined by the boundaries of the Wauconda Area Public Library District.  The library district shares mostly the same boundaries as School District 118, including all or parts of Wauconda, Island Lake, Lakemoor, Lake Barrington, Port Barrington, Volo, and unincorporated Wauconda Township.  Exceptions may be made on a case by case basis if the organization substantially contributes to the Wauconda Area community.
   
• Contribute positively to the mission of the Wauconda area Community Information Network.
   
• A representative of the organization should submit an Information Provider Registration Form to the NorthStarNet contact at the Wauconda Area Library
  . Signed applications will be kept on file at the library.
   
• Be sure to identify the name of the organization and the person responsible for maintaining the information on the registration form.
   
• Create a home page. Organizations may have a commercial developer, a member of their organization or a volunteer create their page.
   
• Each organization's home page that resides on the NorthStarNet server should have these standard tags and links somewhere on the page:
   
  • a link back to the subject page on which the organization is listed,
  • a link to the Community Information Network , and
  • a link to NorthStarNet
     
• Upload the page to the NorthStarNet server. Contact the local NorthStarNet contact for uploading steps.
   
• Keep information updated and current. Each organization must designate one person to be officially responsible for managing and updating files. Each information file must include the date the information is loaded in NorthStarNet and provide some indication of the period of time that the information will be current.
   
• Conform to U.S. copyright law. Copyrighted information may not be posted on the Network without obtaining proper permission.
   
• The Wauconda Area Community Information Network focuses on local and regional information. Links to external information sources are permitted if relevant to the Information Provider's basic mission. Relevancy is determined by NorthStarNet and the Wauconda Area Library
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• Adhere to all other NorthStarNet policies.
   
• The Wauconda Area Library
   reserves the right to remove a link to an Information Provider if the Information Provider is found to have violated any of the NorthStarNet or the Wauconda Area Community Information Network policies and guidelines.
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