Libro Island

I use several of these sites on a regular basis during the year while creating orders and reading lists, but in giving each site a closer look I realized I had developed tunnel vision. My usual visits are to the American Library Association and Association for Library Services to Children for the award lists (I had forgotten about recommendations for videos and recordings and made the new discovery of the children’s software lists), the Texas Library Association for the Texas Bluebonnet and Texas 2x2 program information, bibliographies and activities, School Library Journal Although I use SLJ regularly for book reviews, in my perusing I found the article “Web Design Matters: Ten essentials for any library site” and with the district moving to a hosted website with a new format this link caught my attention.  After reading the article and viewing some of the example websites, I hope that SchoolWorld has some form of analytics available for us to see which parts of our websites are being utilized and where users may be having difficulty and am looking forward to having the ability tweak the library web page myself.
However, my favorite new souvenir from Libro Island would have to be American Association of School Librarians' Best Websites for Teaching and Learning. My two finds include links to some 2.0 tools, but that they are not the direct focus, I will share them with my faculty as additional resources and an opportunity for to improve communication.