Leo Robert Klein, the man behind the Baruch College library Web site, is the subject of a new pixelview.

Websterville Public Library has a beautiful new site with some accessibility worries. The information architecture is fabulous; the most important functions are on the home page. You can, for example, renew books and check your library card with a click or two. A fine teen site called the Hot Zone is also new. The functionality, design and IA of both sites are just what the doctor ordered.

The next step for these web designers is to make the site more accessible. Keep you eyes peeled, because this is just what is on the drawing board for Websterville.

Unfortunately, short production schedules and small budgets lead many of us to cut accessibility and web-standards out of a project. But the truth is that if you plan on accessibility/web-standards early in the game, institutions can actually save time and money.

The trick is often making library boards and administrators aware that these are important concerns. Very often, those of us who actually build library web sites are not empowered to make accessibility/web-standards a priority.

Yesterday: Reinstalled operating system; my files survived. Considered ambitious backup system and reinstalled drivers. Completed appropriate, professional but somehow lifeless design. Unable to escape institutional mindset; faith in myself dashed. Today: Receive excellent email from alma mater; faith restored.