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The Ask an IPL Librarian Reference Service will close between academic terms beginning December 20, 2007 at 10 p.m. (EST). We will reopen the service on Monday, January 5, 2008 at Noon (EST). We use this time to work behind the scenes to improve this service. Happy Holidays from all of us at the IPL!

Accessibility Information Page

General Site Information

The IPL site has been redesigned to make it accessible to persons with disabilities. Accessibility elements include: cascading stylesheets for content presentation, top of page breadcrumb navigation and search mechanism, content headings and subheadings, meaningful link phrases, alt tags, no-script alternatives to javascript, accesskey-based navigation, and skip links.

Future modifications will be based on usability research and include table-less page structure through <div> tags, content-first sequencing, and Google-type search capabilities.

With the exception of some web pages in the Literary Criticism Collection and the Native American Database — and the Live at the IO Special Exhibit — all of the IPL should now be compliant with W3C standards for XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS.

If you have any feedback regarding accessibility, our website’s W3C standards compliance, or the use of our website in general, please share it with us via our Contact form

Accesskeys‡

This site provides accesskeys to take you to the following common links:

  • Alt + 1 = Home page†
  • Alt + 2 = Go to the main content
  • Alt + 3 = Go to the navigation bar
  • Alt + 4 = Go to the top of the page
  • Alt + 5 = Search our site
  • Alt + 6 = Go to our contact form
  • Alt + 7 = Go to our Ask A Question reference service†
  • Alt + 0 = Go to our Accessibility information page

† On KidSpace and TeenSpace, accesskeys can lead to webpages specific to kids and teens, respectively.

‡ WARNING! Internet Explorer users will need to press "Enter" or "Return" after using the accesskey combination. This is a bug in IE that we at the IPL cannot do anything about.

We apologize to users of Internet Explorer for Macintosh. We could not get our hover menus on our navigation bar to work properly for the Mac IE browser, but they should work on the Mac for all other major browsers, i.e. Safari, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, and Mozilla.

What is the IPL?

The Internet Public Library is a public library for the world wide web.
Students from a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science develop and maintain the IPL!
Here are some of the partners in the IPL Consortium. A complete list is found on the IPL Consortium page.

The iSchool at Drexel Florida State University College of Information University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science Rutgers School of Communication and Information Studies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences Syracuse University School of Information The Information School - University Of Washington

The Internet Public Library is hosted by The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology,
with major support from the College of Information at Florida State University.

Sponsored by Intel and Sun Microsystems
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