"In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle."  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)

  About Us   

In February of 2004, the librarians of McLure Education Library were charged by the Dean of Libraries at The University of Alabama, Louis A. Pitschmann, with the creation of a resource that could serve as a tool for high school students. Working from that premise, Head Librarian Helga Visscher, Information Resources Librarians Jim Blansett and Nancy DuPree, Curriculum Materials Librarian Benita Strnad, and Gorgas Library Reference Librarian Barbara Dahlbach, began the process of developing this resource.

It was decided the primary purpose of the pages would be to provide web sites and research materials that would aid in the student's quest to produce quality assignments. Hundreds of hours were spent, and thousands of web sites were reviewed, in order to aggregate what the librarians considered the best sites available on the web for each of the several distinct categories.

The University of Alabama High School Digital Resources Web Page is the result of those labors.