The blog for the 2020 Vision Futures Conference has been a truly thought-provoking place inspired by and created by the Steering Committee for the Idaho Library Futures Conference. Now that the 2020 Vision has been identified and is being incorporated into the work of the Idaho library community and the Idaho Commission for Libraries, it is time to bid farewell to this space as an independent blog.

We would like to invite the readers of this blog to join the conversation over at the Idaho Commission for Libraries blog. There we hope to carry on this conversation about the future of libraries, the 2020 Vision, and delivering libraries services in digital environments. We look forward to seeing you at the ICFL Blog.

In the last few months we've gone through a number of changes - a new name, new office configurations, etc. - and now a new web site.

The reasons for redesigning our site are many:

It’s National Library Week! Why not celebrate libraries by pegging your pants, spiking your hair, and breaking out your black leather jacket?

Wait, you say, What?!

See the ALA Tech Source’s blog Rock On! Celebrating the Library and Learning and be sure to view the accompanying online video, produced by a group of University of Pittsburgh library science students - one of which is my brother.

People don’t read web pages.

Perhaps it’s because the web puts so much content within our grasp, we’re rarely satisfied to read a page from top to bottom before we veer of in a different direction via hyperlink.

The following are guidelines I adhere to when writing for the web:

• Recognize the structure in documents and make it apparent.
  • Use bullet lists, such as this, to organize lists.
  • Use HTML’s heading tags. They promote organized and logical documents, and can improve your search engine rankings, too. Here’s an example usage:
    • H1 for page titles
    • H2 for section headings
    • H3 for subsection headings
    • And so on…
• Use consistent styles and formatting. Once a user learns your layout, they can take that knowledge to any page in your site.
• Get the main point across in your first sentence.

Interested in learning more? Here is a collection of articles on writing for the web.

Welcome to the Idaho Library Futures 2020 Vision Think Tank blog.