Eager to feed their curiosity with interactive information, children are becoming more responsive to technology, and many now use a mouse more effectively than a crayon. By embracing the possibilities of the Internet when programming for children, libraries can empower the young with great information while supplementing traditional children's services. These award-winning children's web developers and librarians build their virtual library services starting from the four pillars of children's librarianship: readers' advisory, homework reference help, programming, and outreach. Presenting a wide assortment of possibilities, the authors offer guidance, inspiration, and practical direction - complete with sample screen shots - to: Create appropriate sites for different ages; Develop a project plan, including an Approach to Success document; Map our details with storyboards and flowcharts; Make user experiences easy and fun using mascots, navigation tools, and downloads; Authoritative and comprehensive, this guide provides sample documents and hands-on help on technical issues - usability testing, dealing with online privacy, monitoring, maintaining, promoting the site, testing for

The year 1997 found the members of the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) cooperative in an expansive mood. More than 1,000 library leaders attended the OCLC President’s Luncheon in San Francisco, where they celebrated OCLC’s 30th anniversary. There were more than 25,000 libraries participating in the cooperative, including nearly 3,000 libraries in 62 countries outside the U.S., and the WorldCat database contained more than 37 million bibliographic records. Over the next ten years, the global digital library would indeed emerge, but in a form that few could have predicted. Against a backdrop of continuous technological change and the rapid growth of the Internet, the OCLC cooperative’s WorldCat database continued to grow and was a central theme of the past decade. As the chapters in this book show, OCLC’s chartered objectives of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing the rate of rising library costs continue to resonate among libraries and librarians, as the OCLC cooperative enters its fifth decade. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Library Administration.

Intranets and Extranets are the fastest growing use of internet technology and are being adopted by a large number of organizations. `Web-Weaving' is a book for managers which illustrates the benefits and pitfalls of using technology to enhance internal and external connections. The book brings together a number of the hottest subjects in IT and Organizational Development using contributions from innovative thinkers and practitioners in both areas. The first section defines what web-weaving actual is, describing the huge range of communication technology available to organizations at the moment. The second section reviews web-weaving in practice using case studies of companies using intranet and extranet technology. The third section brings together commentaries from leading players in both the IT and Human Resources fields to predict the future of web-weaving and the huge impact it will have on the way organizations and the people within them will work together in the future.

Karla Elliott, author, left home ten years earlier. Her parents attorney, Dave McMullen, calls to tell her that her parents were killed in an accident, and he asks her to come. Upon arriving in Rostenville, she learns that her parents were murdered and whoever did the deed is now trying to kill her. She spends her time trying to untangle the web of her life. She learns that her parents were not who she thought they were and that she herself isnt who she believed herself to be.