HIT: School Library Homepage
Michael Ming, Hung
mmhung at hknet.com
Thu Nov 27 06:41:57 EST 1997
Thanks for all the librarians that response to my question. In fact, I have
asked this question once on the news forums in hongkong, but NOBODY
response. Sigh!
Well, all your contributions are very valuable in my future development on
the school
library web pages.
Hope the following help:
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1. What should be put inside a school library homepage that interesting and
attract students and others to come again?
2. Are there any sample school library homepages?
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michael hung
SKH Bishop Mok Sau Tseng Secondary School Librarian
HK Professional Teachers' Union, Teacher-librarians' Group, Chairman
Homepage = http://www.school.net.hk/~mmhung/
michael email: mmhung at school.net.hk [or] mmhung at hknet.com
ida email: idayhchan at valise.com ida & michael Hung
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To find a list of LOTS of school library homepages, wholse links can
be accessed both by state and grade level(s) served, try
http://www.web66.com
look in the registry.
There are other good things at this site as well that will assist you
in developing a homepage. Good luck!
Lin Hatch lhatch at pokey.k12.ar.us
LMS, Pocahontas High School
Pocahontas, AR 72455
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You will find help in designing your Library Home Page on these sites:
Filamentality: Topic Ideas for Librarians Online
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/librarian_ideas.html
Library Web Manager's Reference Center
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/faq.html
Library Clip Art collection
http://www.netins.net/showcase/meyers/clipart.zip
WRITING FOR THE WEB: A PRIMER FOR LIBRARIANS
http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/webdocs.html
INTERACTIVE VERSION
http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/toc.html
You will find examples of school library web pages on most of the sites
linked on this page:
HotList of K-12 Internet School Sites http://rrnet.com/~gleason/k12.html
Hope these help. If you have other questions, feel free to write. I am just
learning these thing too.
Ia Forrester
ia at marin.k12.ca.us
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Michael--
I have designed our library homepage quickly and easily guide students,
teachers and parents to Internet resources of value to the school's
curriculum. I don't believe that it should be very fancy--it should be
elegant and simply designed with few surprises. It should have annotated
links, and the links should be very well organized. The website should
be set up as the homepage on all Internet computers in the library.
Lessons should be taught, using the website as a navigational tool and
the starting place for all research. We have two full text
web-basedperiodical databases, and students are only two mouse clicks
away from these resources. I prefer to stay away from long pages that
require a great deal of scrolling, and every page of the library website
should have a common toolbar, guiding students to other areas of the
website quickly. I use tables to get the maximum use of the horizontal
space--it works very well for us. One more thing...keep the website
updated, and constantly improve the design and content.
Please visit our website and let me know what you think. I appreciate
feedback.
http://icsd.k12.ny.us/highschool/library
best,
Armin
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Armin Heurich Librarian
Ithaca High School, Ithaca New York
heurich at lightlink.com
http://www.lightlink.com/heurich
(607) 256-9088
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>1. What should be put inside a school library homepage that interesting and
>attract students and others to come again?
- links to assignments / HWs that have been set by teachers
- links to current "fads" (eg: SPice girls in UK!)
- the library catalogue is always useful
- school magazine
- opportunities for students to set up their own homepages and to send
e-mail to others (thought you may have to moniter to avoid the dangers of
hate-mail)
- links to current events - eg:news / sport like the walled garden
approach of AoL (UK/US) or CampusWorld (UK)
Paul Hopkins
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Mike,
If you visit the Web66 International Registry of Schools
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools/US/Minnesota.html I am sure you will
find many library pages within these sites. The library web sites are
as varied as we are. Think about what you want to share with the
students. What might be fun but educational. Sites that might fill a
gap in your collection. It would be nice if uyour library web site would
dovetail with your in-house resources rather than compete with them.
I am trying to create our Media Center web site. I am thinking of
including sites of virtual magazines, educational games/contests, lesser
known, but good search engines, as well as good resources for different
subject areas. Look at Kathy Schrock's home page
http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/ You will find all kinds of ideas
there which might work for you. Good luck
Ruth Rogers, Media Specialist
Battery creek high School
rsrbchs at hargray.com
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Many of the ones I put up here:
http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~wardsboro/mps.htm#Schools
are there because they answer your first question.
-Dale
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Dale Copps, dcopps at wcsu.k12.vt.us
Librarian, Wardsboro & Winhall (VT) Elementary Schools
http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~winhall
http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~wardsboro
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Go to Peter Milbury's School Librarian Web Pages
http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~pmilbury/lib.html
Hope this helps!!
Mary Todd, Media Specialist
Cairo-Durham H.S.
Cairo, NY LDREWINGO at AOL.COM
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> 1. What should be put inside a school library homepage that interesting and
> attract students and others to come again?
-course schedules
-information about professors, how to contact them, their
specialities, etc.
-course descriptions
-instructions on how to subscribe to listservs, newsgroups, etc.
-links to websites of interest to librarians
-library student groups
-school policies
-meetings schedules
> 2. Are there any sample school library homepages?
I am a student at the San Jose State University Library and
Information Science program and I visit our library school homepage
again and again whenever I have a a school related policy question.
http://witloof.sjsu.edu
Hope this helps.
-Jacquie Lesch
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If you are not able to answer these questions yourself, then the site is
not needed.
I have been an advocate for some time now that there are too many websites
that offer no content. If you are struggling with trying to find out what
to put on a site, then it is my belief that the proposed site is not needed.
I mean no disrespect, but publishing a website requires material. If there
isn't a base of content to draw upon from your end, then why write the
site? (rhetorical)
_________________________________________
robert owens
a concerned citizen from the 1st district
new jersey
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Check our homepage listed below.
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Carolyn Pearl, Librarian, Westfield High School, Houston, TX
mailto:carolynp at hiway.spring.isd.tenet.edu (school)
mialto:cpearl at flash.net (home)
Bookmark our web page: http://www.spring.isd.tenet.edu/whs/lib
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We have created a simple program that creates a website for libraries. The
user simply fills in the blanks and then clicks a button. It is called
HomeMaker for Libraries, is free, and can be found at
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/libmkr. Most library users want quick
access to information resources. Let that be your guide.
Web66 has an index to schools with web pages. Library pages might also be
there. Check it out. Web66 should be a sufficient search term.
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Michael,
This response may not be relevant in your situation, but in Colorado we are
losing media specialist postions, site based management is the norm, and
principals care greatly about improving test scores because of new content
standards. If media specialists value their jobs, they had better be
addressing content standards, and I can't think of of better way than by
creating web pages that point to resources that help teachers and student
achieve content standards in various subjects.
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Check Teen Services Pages at:
http://www-lib.co.santa-clara.ca.us/ya/yapages.html
Jacques Presseault jacques at olsn.on.ca
Ontario Library Service - North (Sudbury)
334 Regent, Sudbury, Ont., P3C 4E2
http://www.library.on.ca/index.html
Tel.: (705) 675-6433 Fax: (705) 671-2441
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We have a pretty cool library web site: http://www.chs.chico.k12.ca.us
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Margaret Rummens
Chico Senior High School
901 Esplanade Chico, CA
916-891-3026
http://www.chs.chico.k12.ca.us
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You could visit our home site @
http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/troy.k12.mo.us
The former librarian was a whiz at technology, and she developed a
great web site for our library. Go into the Library Links when you
pull up our home page.
AlsoFrancis Howell North has a good page, as do several other
schools in that district.
Georganna Krumlinde, Librarian <krumling at mail.troy.k12.mo.us>
Troy Buchanan High School, 1190 Old Cap-Au-Gris
Troy, MO 63379 Voice:314 528 4618 FAX:314 462 2903
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This is the URL for our school's page:
http://206.12.151.253/LRC/LRC.html
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Check out Arcadia's Library homepage at the following address;
http://www.greeceny.com/arm/arclib.htm
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The Media Specialist/ Librarian at our school is in the process of putting
together a very useful site with helpful links for both students and
teachers. Here's the URL:
http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/Greenway/home.html
If you click on Classrooms, then Mr. Leahy's 3/4, you will be in my class'
web page. This was just put up a week ago and the class is hoping that
people will view it and email us.
I also have a personal web site I've put together for students and teachers.
Here is its URL:
www.teleport.com/~dleahy/Truth/
Dave
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Dave Leahy
dleahy at teleport.com
www.teleport.com/~dleahy/
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This one is from our school.
http://www.marlborough.k12.ma.us/schools/mhs/lmc/index.html
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michael hung
SKH Bishop Mok Sau Tseng Secondary School Librarian
HK Professional Teachers' Union, Teacher-librarians' Group, Chairman
Jesus Christ, is the same Yesterday and Today and Forever. ~Hebrew 13:8
Homepage = http://www.school.net.hk/~mmhung/
michael email: mmhung at school.net.hk [or] mmhung at hknet.com
ida email: idayhchan at valise.com ida & michael Hung
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