ALA Web Site and Access to Information

I’m writing a piece for librarians and I spend a bunch of time on how one of the most important things librarians do is to organize information for easy access. Yesterday I spent LOTS of time on the ALA web site looking for resources. I’ve never experienced any web site this slow! Easy access to information – I don’t think so! If I didn’t really need this information I wouldn’t have stuck around while the pages were coming up. (Yes, I do have a broadband connection. Yes, this happened repeatedly throughout the site.) I don’t know if this is a server problem or an information architecture problem but some of those urls are 2 lines long! Guess we’ve got organizing books under control, but organizing electronic information is still a challenge. What does this say about our position as leaders in the information field if our national organization is not up to organizing information on their web site for easy access? Hmmmm …