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INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY

Redesign Your Crash Course in Apps for Librarians
Library Website Technology Planning Using the Best Mobile

STACY ANN WITTMANN CHRISTOPHER D. BROWN Technology to Educate,
AND JULIANNE T. STAM Create, and Engage
NICOLE HENNIG

July 2016, 133pp, 8 1/2x11
May 2016, 120pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 Print: 978-1-4408-5060-8
Print: 978-1-4408-3856-9 $45.00, £35.00, €41.00
$50.00, £39.00, €46.00 eBook: 978-1-4408-5061-5 September 2014, 197pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
eBook: 978-1-4408-3857-6 Print: 978-1-61069-530-5
$45.00, £35.00, €41.00
“ or redesign of a library website This easy-to-use primer will empower eBook: 978-1-61069-531-2
Anyone involved in the design
anyone—even those with no IT
will find this book an invaluable background—to face the challenge of “ An essential reference tool for
companion. . . . [T]he book adding one or more technologies to any librarian looking to stay
presents a thorough framework library services or maintaining existing relevant. ”
for website design. ” technologies. —Library Journal, January 1, 2015
—VOYA, August 2, 2016 FEATURES
• Offers librarians a one-stop resource “ A reference shelf treasure,
“ should be on the bookshelf for managing basic technology issues Hennig’s highly adaptable work
Redesign Your Library Website
in their facilities
of every library professional • Written in a simple, straightforward suits the needs of school and
public libraries, home schoolers,
tasked with redesigning manner that even the least and college and university
any library’s website. It is a technologically savvy librarians can education departments. ”
” —VOYA, January 20, 2015
necessary tool. easily understand
—ARBA, March 13, 2017 • Includes screenshots that clarify
points throughout the book How can your library—and your
A comprehensive guide for all sizes of • Addresses challenges unique to patrons—benefit from mobile apps?
libraries, this book guides you through libraries, such as working with the This guidebook offers a solid foundation
the entire process of effectively public and running information in “app-literacy,” supplying librarians
redesigning your library’s website— technology operations on a shoestring with the knowledge to review and
from evaluating your current site and budget recommend apps, offer workshops,
understanding user needs, to creating and become the app expert for their
a budget, through to launching and communities.
maintaining your updated site.
FEATURES
FEATURES • Describes the most important, high-
• Describes various ways of handling quality mobile apps in specific topic
specific steps for different sizes and areas of interest to librarians
types of libraries—from a “DIY”
approach to cost-effective ways of
hiring outside professionals

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