School Library Web Page Topics

As a future school librarian, the website that I design will need to be a resource accessible to both teachers and students. I have come up with a list of ideas that would be helpful in including in my site.

Author Sites

This is important for both teachers and students. Here, they can find a list of websites for favorite authors from one central location. I would have this page arranged by author’s last name, in alphabetical order.

Journal and Magazine Subscriptions

This page would be divided into two sections; one as a teacher list, and another as a student list. Here, I would link sites of our current library subscriptions for easy navigation.

Research Tools

On this page, I would include a narrative on how to determine the validitiy of a site. This information would be most helpful for students who are newcomers to searching for information online. Following the narrative, I would include links to kid-friendly search sites to aide the students in the location of websites containing the information they are looking for.

Student Showcase

Here, I would like to include pictures of great classroom activities, as well as student art work that can be photographed and loaded into a web page.

Award Winners

On this page, I think it would be fun and kid-friendly (as well as realating to what is taught during media time!) to include a list of the past year winners in the Black Eyed Susan award, as well as a list of the nominations for this year’s award so that students can get involved and check out those books.

Dewey Decimal Information

As an adult, I have difficulty remembering and using the Dewey system, so here, I would have a list of each hundred level and its overall topic. Under each, I would include a breakdown of all of the subtopics included in our library and where to find each.

Weather

Here, I would post a list of weather sites so that students can easily check the weather forecast from their classrooms without having to search for those sites.