[Web4lib] Library Website Awards...?

[HAZEL Margaret E]

I'd suggest an overall award structure, but also awards/categories/tags
for the different types of libraries, since the target audiences have
some very distinct needs, in some cases.  You wouldn't use the same
descriptors on an elementary school site as for a graduate school of
medicine, for example, and the search structure would likely be
different, as search patterns change. 
-Margaret Hazel
 Eugene, OR
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Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Library Website Awards...?

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:32 PM, <libconsult at optonline.net> wrote:

> Does anyone have an inside track to ALA to suggest this...or ....maybe

> figure out a way to do an online vote through the Web4Lib Wiki, 
> perhaps categories for Academic, Public, Special, School Libraries...?
>
> That's a wonderful idea! Here's a link to the ALA Awards Committee 
> page at
the ALA website. There is contact info there and perhaps the liaison is
a good place to start:

http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/governanceb/council/counccommittee
s/awards.htm

I agree that there are fantastic websites out there for and by
libraries.
Perhaps it would be better not to divide them by library type. A good
website will stand as a model for designers regardless of subject
matter. It would be a nice change to see the library community vote and
act as a whole community on a matter of relevance to all librarians
regardless of where they work.

Just my 2 cents.

Helen Linda
Eliot D. Pratt Library
Goddard College
Plainfield, VT
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