URL Shortener Service Survey (Responses)

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1	Timestamp	Please share the .edu you are affiliated with, or if that's not applicable, some other reasonable institutional signifier that indicates your affiliation context:	Does your institution currently run its own self-service, self-hosted URL shortener service?	Who runs the URL shortener service?	Can you identify the self-hosted software your institution uses?	Can you share links to related policy pages governing the service that your institution has in place?	Gotcha. Can you identify any reasons for rejecting or abandoning? Check all that apply	Anything else you would like to share?	Can you share a link to the service itself?	Can you share your favorite use cases or success stories?

2	3/12/2025 13:15:46	whiteplainslibrary.org	Yes	Library IT	PrettyLinks WordPress plugin	none exist yet, but in works		The need to impress upon staff who use the service the insecurity that's intrinsic to shortened links, that is, as with QR codes, one doesn't know where they will lead until it may be too late.	service only available internally to staff	new staff hire started using it to bookmark things to which only she had access!
3	3/12/2025 13:58:23	dartmouth.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT	No	https://services.dartmouth.edu/TDClient/1806/Portal/Shared/FileOpen?AttachmentID=dc3e6db5-52f2-4231-9ddf-a76da91fe0af&ItemID=64462&ItemComponent=26&IsInline=-1		Please share the results back with Code4Lib, thanks!
4	3/12/2025 14:21:52	umn	Yes	College of Liberal Arts IT	in house ruby on rails	https://z.umn.edu/shortener/faq			https://z.umn.edu
5	3/13/2025 2:12:52	VZG	No; either considered in the past but rejected OR had one in the past but abandoned it				No human resources available to do the work, planning required for long-term investment	I'd like a list of shortener solutions/software
6	3/13/2025 5:13:37	Yale University Library	No, never considered it					The library's too big for me to be certain that it was never considered. It has never come to my ears in the 20 years I've been at the university (not all at the library) in IT in one way or another.
7	3/13/2025 9:17:04	duke.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT	no	https://oit.duke.edu/service/dukeis/			https://duke.is/
8	3/13/2025 18:07:02	colostate.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT	unsure, but there's a link from the service to a Google support page (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863?hl=en#zippy=%2Cin-this-article)	The service links to our Acceptable Use Policy (https://policylibrary.colostate.edu/policy.aspx?id=704)(		The institutional URL shortener is useful to have, but it's difficult to find and I get the sense that many people don't know about it.	It's behind a CSU NetID login	My unit has used it to easily share links to resources such as a calendar of upcoming workshops
9	3/17/2025 11:18:34	umich.edu	Yes	Office of the VP for Communications		https://vpcomm.umich.edu/resources/url-shortener/		I'm not directly affiliated with this service - just someone who uses it.		We use it for university-branded QR codes for signage and business cards.
10	3/17/2025 12:00:49	vcu.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT	homegrown I think	https://go.vcu.edu/			https://go.vcu.edu/	Printed PR material
11	3/17/2025 15:40:23	colorado.edu	Yes	Strategic Relations and Communications	Nope	https://buff.link/short-urls/			https://buff.link/short-urls/	I created a "random" URL for a project and got "buff.link/2" so I don't think a lot of folks use this service. It doesn't even look like a real URL!
12	3/17/2025 22:31:50	Iastate.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT	Go.iastate.edu				Go.iastate.edu
13		uconn.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					s.uconn.edu
14		tamu.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					z.tamu.edu
15		utexas.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT
16		hawaii.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.hawaii.edu
17		rutgers.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.rutgers.edu
18		wisc.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.wisc.edu
19		niu.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.niu.edu
20		uvm.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.uvm.edu
21		unl.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.unl.edu
22		illinois.edu	Yes	Office of Strategic Communications and Marketing					go.illinois.edu
23		gmu.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.gmu.edu
24		fsu.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					fla.st
25		wm.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.wm.edu
26		uw.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.uw.edu
27		auburn.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					aub.ie
28		utk.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					tiny.utk.edu
29		ncsu.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.ncsu.edu
30		uab.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.uab.edu
31		ufl.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.ufl.edu
32		umd.edu	Yes	Our institution's central IT					go.umd.edu
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