I’m generally not given to public rants, but sometimes you just gotta let one rip… Today I came across a PLA announcement for a two-year grant of $750,000 from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. The ALA/PLA will be awarding mini-grants under a program entitled “The American Dream Starts @ your library”.
The announcement directs libraries to apply at www.americandreamtoolkit.org. AmericanDreamToolkit is another awful ALA website — no surprise there. But to add insult to injury, the links in the announcement return a 404 error.
This is an absolute disgrace. It’s really hard to take an industry seriously that still struggles in 2010 to create a valid webpage hyperlink.
