IASL/Concord School Library Web Page Award

Laurel A Clyde

Your school library does not have a web page and you are wondering whether or not you should have one.
You would like to have a web page for your school library, but you don't know what you should put on it.

Your school library has a web page but it doesn't seem to be working very well and it is not used much.

Your school library has a website, and people seem to like it, but you are looking for ideas to improve it.

Your school library has a website and you are rather pleased with it, but you would like to be able to evaluate it against school library websites that are considered to be examples of 'good practice'.

If any of these scenarios applies to you, or you are just curious about what other school libraries are doing with their websites, then you should have a look at the websites of the school libraries that have won the IASL/Concord School Library Web Page Award. This award is co-ordinated by the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) and sponsored by Concord Australia through its CEO, Colin Bell. There are links to the winning school library web pages from the Award section of IASL's own website, School Libraries Online, at http://www.iasl-slo.org/ (see Figure 1 for the Award's Web page).

Dr L Anne Clyde, an Australian, is currently Professor in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik. She has worked as a teacher, librarian and teacher-librarian in Australia, and has taught in colleges and universities in Australia and Canada, as well as in Iceland. Anne also serves as webmaster for the IASL.

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