First, what new librarians really need is a "best practices" guide on how to design a library website. With so many options like FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and LibGuides, librarians are faced with so many platform options that they don't know which one to use to design a website.
Second, because librarians may be employing the above platforms to design library websites, what is the value in learning HTML? Now I know that we should have at least an elementary knowledge of HTML, but what is the scope of that elementary knowledge? Are we learning too much HTML, and should we spend more time learning a website design platform, like Frontpage or Dreamweaver?
I feel that library schools must define the scope of basic website development skills more clearly, so that we are not wasting time on knowledge which we will not use. If we don't use a certain piece of knowledge, it's obsolete and we will forget it.
Third, it is very hard to read this week's readings on Cascading Style Sheets before doing the lab. We should be assigned both the reading and the lab at the same time, so we can get a firm comprehension on what CSSes are. I believe this will be more useful for future LIS 2600 students in the future.
Just my two cents!
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