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INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY

NEW Redesign Your

Optimizing Library Website
Discovery Systems STACY ANN WITTMANN
AND JULIANNE T. STAM
to Improve User Anyone involved in the
Experience “ design or redesign of a
The Innovative library website will find
Librarian’s Guide this book an invaluable
companion. . . . [T]he
BONNIE IMLER AND book presents a thorough
MICHELLE EICHELBERGER May 2016, 120pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
May 2017, 136pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 Print: 978-1-4408-3856-9 framework for website
”
Print: 978-1-4408-4382-2 Two authors with more than $50.00, £39.00, €46.00 design.
$55.00, £43.00, €50.00 40 years of combined library eBook: 978-1-4408-3857-6
eBook: 978-1-4408-4383-9 —VOYA, August 2, 2016
experience tap into their wealth
of knowledge about discovery A comprehensive guide for all sizes of libraries, this book
and user experience, sharing proven methods for setting up, guides you through the entire process of effectively redesigning
promoting, and teaching their own discovery systems. your library’s website—from evaluating your current site and
understanding user needs, to creating a budget, through to
FEATURES launching and maintaining your updated site.
• Provides a comprehensive guide that helps librarians make
a library discovery system work better for their specific FEATURES
community • Describes various ways of handling specific steps for different
• Examines how system design and careful fine-tuning can greatly sizes and types of libraries—from a “DIY” approach to cost-
improve system efficacy effective ways of hiring outside professionals

ALSO OF INTEREST Library Automation

Planning Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery for Digital Assets: The Core Concepts and
Innovative Librarian’s Guide on page 164. Practical Systems Analysis

Third Edition
Internet DANIA BILAL
Technologies and FOREWORD BY
MARSHALL BREEDING
Information Services “ [A]n excellent addition
Second Edition to any introductory
”
JOSEPH B. MILLER librarianship course.
March 2014, 279pp, 7x10
“ Highly recommended Print: 978-1-59158-922-8 —VOYA, October 1, 2014
$55.00, £43.00, €50.00
for information science
Recent advances in technology
courses related to eBook: 978-1-59158-923-5 such as cloud computing, recent
Internet technologies and industry standards such as RFID, bibliographic standards like RDA
August 2014, 496pp, 7x10 professionals responsible and BIBFRAME, the increased adoption of open source integrated
Print: 978-1-61069-473-5 for or interested in such library systems (ILS), and continued shift in users’ expectations
$65.00, £50.00, €60.00 technologies. have increased the complexity of the decision regarding ILS for all
eBook: 978-1-61069-886-3 ”
—Library Journal, types of libraries.
December 1, 2014
FEATURES
The Internet has enabled the convergence of all things • Addresses a key question: Should media centers and small
information-related. This book provides essential, foundational libraries focus only on commercially available software, or
knowledge of the application of Internet and web technologies in would it be advantageous to choose open source software?
the information and library professions. • Provides an in-depth treatment of the systems development
lifecycle (SDLC) and a six-phase systems analysis and design
approach

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