Coll. Dev. Policy Table of Contents Copyright Statement Introduction Policies Selection Process Collection Evaluation Adult 000 - Computers Adult 100 - Psychology, Philosophy Adult 200 - Religion Adult 300 - Social Sciences Adult 400 - Language Adult 500 - Pure Sciences Adult 600 - Applied Sciences Adult 700 - Arts, Recreation Adult 800 - Literature Adult 900 - History, Geography Adult - Biography Adult - Fiction Adult - Mysteries Adult - Science Fiction Adult - Young Adult Adult - Videos Adult - Ref. CD-ROMs Adult - Circ CD-ROMs Adult - Popular Recordings Adult - Classical Recordings Adult - Spoken Recordings Adult - Reference Adult - Online Databases Adult - WWW Sites Adult - Large Type Adult - Paperbacks Adult - Govt. Documents Adult - Local History Adult - Periodicals Adult - Literacy Adult - Foreign Lang. Adult - Phone Books Adult - College Catalog Adult - Pamphlets Juv. - Non-Fiction Juv. - Easy Reader Non-Fic. Juv. - Fiction Juv. - Easy Fiction Juv. - Easy Reader Fiction Juv. - Picture Books Juv. - Paperbacks Juv. - Sound Recordings Juv. - Spoken Recordings Juv. - Reference Juv. - Periodicals

World Wide Web Sites

In response to advances in technology and the changing needs of the community, the Morton Grove Public Library endeavors to develop collections, resources, and services that meet the cultural, informational, recreational, and educational needs of Morton Grove's diverse, multicultural community. It is within this context that the Morton Grove Public Library offers unlimited World Wide Web (WWW) access to the Internet and its multitude of resources. To facilitate the use of the Web in navigating the Internet, The Morton Grove Public Library has established a Web page, the Webrary, which not only highlights the Library and its services, but also presents the Webrary links, a subject-approach to selected WWW sites.

Webrary links are selected to enrich, broaden, and complement the print and audiovisual library materials. These online resources may be selected to provide home or in-library access to types of material available in print form at the Library or they may be selected to provide more current and more esoteric material than that available at the Library. In selecting resources available on the Internet, the Library attempts to use to its full advantage the unique nature of the Internet by providing access to government databases and other reliable online sources for the whole spectrum of reference needs and for popular culture, special interest and entertainment sites for both children and adults.

WWW sites, provided as links on the Library Home Page, are selected to enrich, broaden, and complement the print and audiovisual library materials. These online resources may be selected to provide home or in-library access to types of material available in print form at the Library or they may be selected to provide more current and more esoteric material than that available at the Library. In selecting resources available on the Internet, the Library attempts to use to its full advantage the unique nature of the Internet by providing government databases for reference needs, sites for hobbyists and pop culture fans, online museum resources for art lovers, and fun activities for both children and adults.

Influencing Factors

The Internet Public Access exists to serve the general informational, educational, and recreative needs of the Library community. Quality and validity of the information, access, design, and its up-to-date nature are deciding factors in the selection of a World Wide Web site on the Internet.

Standard professional print publications are increasingly publishing reviews of online resources. Profesional Web review sites, such as the Internet Scout Report and Librarian's Index to the Internet (LII), as well as computer-related journals, general itnerest magazines and newspapers, regularly have articles or features on the best Internet resources. These should be considered the first step for assigned Library staff in choosing sites for the Webrary Links. Criteria for the selection of Web sites for the Morton Grove Public Library include the following:

1. Sites should originate from the creating or responsible institution, not a third party.
2. Sites maintained by individuals should be closely monitored.
3. Material should be up-to-date, preferably with a date and e-mail address available.
4. When dealing with controversial topics, sites with differing points of view should be provided whenever possible.
5. Information should be verified if source is unknown.
6. Sites should be examined and reevaluated regularly for the quality and validity of information, access, design, and currency of content.

Each subject area should be fleshed out by the assigned selector with useful, accurate, informative links. Each Web site should be evaluated before incorporation into the Library Home Page for validity and timeliness. Each site should be reviewed according to the assigned schedule in order to maintain working links to Web sites. As links become inactive or out-of-date, they should be removed immediately from the Webrary Links.

Since the MGPL Webrary links to many resources that are constantly changing on the Internet, it, too, will be constantly changing in design and content in response to the demands of the Internet and its global outlook upon the world.

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First published on the Web: 1/26/98
Last updated: 10/17/2006, 3:07 PM