About the Website
Site Features and Accessibility
- Designed to latest standards (XHTML & CSS)
- Skip links are on every page to allow users of screen readers to skip directly to the page content
- Aims to comply with the Federal Section 508 accessibility standards for websites
- The Web site is designed to work well with a variety of browsers, including: IE 6 and 7, Netscape 7+, Firefox 1.5+, Opera, Safari, Omniweb, [etc] but will allow users of older browsers to access the site as well. If you have problems accessing or reading the site, please contact the Library.
- Features a text resizer on the top right of every page to enhance reading the site
- Liquid layout allows the site to adjust to screen resolutions down to 800 x 600
- Design reflects the look and feel of the Library building
RSS Feeds
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a convenient way to keep up with new content on our website. Instead of having to click through the various sections of mppl.org to see what's new, you can have that information sent to your computer! An item in an RSS feed usually contains a headline, a link, and a summary of the story.
Whenever you see this picture 
you can subscribe to that RSS feed.
A variety of RSS readers are available. A long list of RSS readers is available at RSS Compendium.
Once you've selected an RSS reader you're ready to go! To subscribe to our feeds, right click on any of the RSS links, select "copy shortcut," or "copy link location", and paste the URL into your newsreader.
To get started, try this handy online tutorial from the Free Range Librarian.
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Artists' Credits
One Hat Design Studio
One Hat Design Studio created the page templates for MPPL's Web site. In addition, One Hat took some of the photos that appear in the headers of the Web site. Learn more about One Hat Design Studio by visiting their Web site (http://www.onehat.com/).
Skip Peterson
Skip starting taking photos at Glenbrook South High School for the school newspaper,
The Oracle. After high school, Skip attended Ray Vogue School of Design in Chicago
and received a certificate in Photography.
For the following 23 years, Skip worked for a two commercial firms that offered on a variety of photographic avenues such as packaging, catalogs, and point of purchase displays while working part time for his own company.
Skip began serving on his own clients exclusively in 1998. Skip concentrates on commercial photography for packaging, catalogs, point of purchase displays, capability brochures, and web photography. Some of his clients have included Long Grove Confectionery, Bosch Tools, The Bradford Exchange, Fowlett College Bookstores, Mabis Healthcare, Wells Lamont, Anatomical Chart Company and Mount Prospect Public Library.
Darice Castino
Darice has worked at MPPL since 2000. In addition to assisting children at
the Youth Desk, Darice is very creative and has taken on the design and creation of various
exhibits and display cases in Youth and the Lobby areas of the Library. Darice's exciting and
innovative ideas have made these cases a popular place to stop and look for both children and
adults.
Darice has a BFA with emphasis on drawing/painting/figurative work and is an alumni of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Barat College in Lake Forest. She does large scale drawings and murals, has illustrated a cookbook, does watercolors, and designs sets. She plans to illustrate a children's book in the future and belongs to the Society of Writers and Illustrators of Children's Books.
Darice created dynamic and entertaining drawings of Monty the Mount Prospect Duck featured on the bench located in the entry to Youth Services. Monty the Mount Prospect Duck has taken on a personality that brings a splash of whimsy and fun to the Kids' Web pages.
