Describes the development of a Web site based at Brigham Young University that aims to make the latest practical knowledge associated with online learning easily available to all instructional designers through the development of an online community. Explains the IDEA (Instructional Design Exchange Area) Web site and discusses challenges of…

This selected bibliography contains 63 publications and 21 Web sites that can help librarians learn more about how they can use the metaphor of the information commons to advocate for the public's information assets. (MES)

This observational study investigates the methods people use in their workplace to organize Web information for re-use. Topics include bookmarking; emailing URLs; printing Web pages; differences according to workplace role and their relationship to the information; and a functional analysis to help explain differences. (Author/LRW)

Describes how some colleges are allowing advertisers access to their Web sites, while many others are wary. (EV)

Describes how the University of Dayton is among a growing number of colleges using personalized Web sites to attract students. (EV)

Library Web teams invest significant time and energy trying to create usable Web sites. Despite the ongoing efforts to make them more friendly, studies have shown that visitors have difficulty using library sites to locate journal articles. This article discusses how library web developers have tackled the particular problem of helping Web site…

In this article, the author, a doctoral candidate from the School of Information at the University of Texas-Austin, describes the experience gathered from her attempt to redesign her existing Web sites in order to supply online resources for Slavic and Byzantine studies. The use of participatory design, which involves the users in creating the…

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, this month's featured book is "Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." The book was written by Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Bryan Collier (Jump at the Sun, 2001. 40p. ISBN 0786807148). This pictorial biography of the world-renowned civil rights leader has one of the most striking…

In the 21st century, the school library is the hub on which the wheels of classroom programs turn, providing the human, physical, print, pictorial, electronic and digital resources necessary for curriculum delivery. A school library web site that supports the needs of the school community through information and links to appropriate resources…

Today's social studies classroom is likely to include first or second generation immigrants to the United States. As Susan Pass, the author of this article, advanced in teaching, she learned how important it was to get to know these students. This article describes her own experiences teaching students who are immigrants. Overtime she has built a…

Demonstration authoring software is a tool for creating Flash-based multimedia movies. This document describes how demonstration authoring software was created for training in a library at the University of Colorado.

Lane Mills, assistant superintendent for accountability and technology for Wilson County Schools, in North Carolina, describes the process of reviewing and updating technology policies in her home school district. While technology policies and procedures should be tailored to each district's needs and level of technology use, some basic policies…

After a brief career in musical theater, Micki McIntyre entered the graduate library program at Columbia University, where she noticed a poster advertising free tuition to library employees. "There was a vacancy at the health sciences library, and that's how a theater major became a medical librarian." She's a medical librarian with…

It bothers Michelle Jeske that many people still don't know all that their public libraries can do for them, even in Denver, where 80 percent of the population has a library card. Fortunately, as manager of web information services at the Denver Public Library (DPL), she can reach out to people who never come through the library doors. Jeske and…

We are entering an age of instant media gratification, in which a "multimedia aura" will "accompany us wherever we go," writes Tom March. The New WWW, says March, offers us whatever we want, whenever and wherever we want it. The effect on our children may be unrealistic expectations, premature disillusionment, and unhappiness. To counterbalance…