1. www.isthelibraryopen Session 140440 http://goo.gl/rX4yVV
The library closes every day at 4:00? It won’t if the library website provides engaging links to needed resources and services for all stakeholders. Learn website essentials for staying open 24/7 and see examples of sites using templates. This session focuses not on how to build a website, but what to include.
Session

2. Sharon Gullett, Librarian-on-Loan &
Presenters
Marsha Edney,
Marshall ISD High School Library
Sharon Gullett, Librarian-on-Loan &
Texas A&M University-Commerce Adjunct Faculty
Link to Session Materials: or

3. Screenshot of wiki

4. Types of Formats District designed html District adopted template
LibGuides
Weebly/Wix
Blogs
Wiki
Pros and Cons (Quick)

5. Disclaimers Can’t address firewalls, access limited with a password.
Can’t address various templates or formats selected by your district
Can’t address district library webpages
No Texas sites
No live websites today.

6. Mentally throw out the barriers to your website
Mentally throw out the barriers to your website. Don’t think about yours. Think what you would recommend that someone else would do!

7. In the beginning, we had teachers and students and books

8. We had a librarian responsible for the books and students during the time they were in the library.

9. Library tools of the past

10. But what happened when the school closed
But what happened when the school closed? Why do we have to close the library ever? No more doing research in the middle of the night unless you had a set of encyclopedias at home

11. Published in January 1998 in the Reading Eagle
But no later than 1998, there was conversation about opening the library 24/7. or
Published in January 1998 in the Reading Eagle

12. We can make excuses, and
Image Source:

13. Bibliothèque (Library) Louis Nucéra in Nice France
We can hide our eyes and ignore the needs of our students
 Bibliothèque (Library) Louis Nucéra in Nice France

14. We know the library can be open 24/7 and can be created to entice students and teachers because of the quality of information to be found and the ease of use.

15. We never know when or where our users will be
We never know when or where our users will be. So we have to figure out a way to serve these online students who are not always at school.

16. Our students can continue learning outside the 4 walls of the library

17. So the question is…. Is the Library Open. The answer should be…
So the question is…..Is the Library Open. The answer should be….it’s open access to all the electronic resources including eBooks

18. What do your students expect to see. What do they need to see
What do your students expect to see? What do they need to see? Conversation…..

19. This is more than likely what they will see. Which leads them to

20. this

21. Or this

22. Or maybe this

23. Or maybe this without anything else
Or maybe this without anything else. What would this library webpage and the others ones before say about the library program?