A Call to Get on Board

The First Step: Serritella applied for a project grant from the Georgia Council of Media Organizations (GOMO), and received $500 from it to create a Web site of bulletin-board ideas for both high school and middle school media specialists. Using server space from the Clayton County Public Schools, where she has worked for 27 years, Serritella went to work on her idea.

The Muse: Serritella created and worked on the site herself but gathered ideas from librarians across the country. She posted requests on LM_NET, an online discussion group, and on the Georgia Media Specialists' online discussion groups, and she received a number of suggestions to add to her own. Examples of bulletin boards on Serritella's site include special events such as homecoming (photos of students past and present on a gingham background) or the holidays (a banner across the top of the billboard that promises "Books yule love to read"). Other boards promote a particular author, or celebrate student diversity. Some are accompanied by photos.

What the Future Holds: Serritella plans to expand the site and invites readers to send their ideas, or examples of boards they have created, to her online. She also plans to send snail-mail letters to all the high school media specialists in Georgia to gather new suggestions "since many of them do not belong to the discussion groups." In the meantime, she'll also be busy maintaining the Lovejoy High School's Web site at www.ccps.ga.net/lhs.