As you may notice, the ALABI website now has a new look. During the 2007 ALABI meeting, the members voted to take the website in a different direction, and with that decision came a site redesign. This version of the ALABI website is built upon WordPress, a popular blogging and content management platform.
As you examine this new environment, we hope you will reflect on why exactly the new site looks the way it does. ALABI is an association of librarians and archivists who work for or with Baptist institutions. Many of the elements in the design were selected because of this fact. The design looks rather like a book. The image at the top of the site contains a Library of Congress call number for a book about archives. The date in the call number, 2005, represents the year that the association was organized. The header and sidebar contain images of marbled paper, a leather border, and yellowed paper. All of these were scanned from a well-preserved copy of a Baptist book, James P. Boyce’s Three Changes in Theological Institutions. The new design is intended to be a tribute to all the librarians and archivists who labor to ensure that the material remains of the Baptist heritage are preserved for future generations of Baptists.