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INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY

Innovative Librarian’s Guide

Practicing librarians have a deep need for concrete, practical information on rapidly changing aspects of their work. The Innovative
Librarian’s Guide series addresses novel practices, new technology, shifting environments, and emerging trends in library practice.
Unlike more introductory publications, this series covers points of change in greater detail to help librarians keep their knowledge
and skills up to date. Keeping a practical focus, the books in the Innovative Librarian’s Guide series cover not only “how-to” but also
“why-to” and “when-to,” including decision points and comparisons. Written with an audience of front-line librarians in mind, these
professional development resources will be particularly useful for those who are tackling a new area of responsibility or initiating a
new project or service.

NEW Customizing Vendor Digitizing Audiovisual
Optimizing Discovery Systems for Better and Nonprint
Systems to Improve User Experiences Materials

User Experience The Innovative The Innovative
Librarian’s Guide Librarian’s Guide
The Innovative
Librarian’s Guide MATTHEW REIDSMA SCOTT PIEPENBURG
BONNIE IMLER
AND MICHELLE EICHELBERGER

May 2016, 168pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 September 2015, 94pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
Print: 978-1-4408-4384-6 Print: 978-1-4408-3780-7
$55.00, £43.00, €50.00 $50.00, £39.00, €46.00
May 2017, 136pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 eBook: 978-1-4408-4385-3 eBook: 978-1-4408-3781-4
Print: 978-1-4408-4382-2
$55.00, £43.00, €50.00
“ librarian initiating or continuing on these topics shows, and
eBook: 978-1-4408-4383-9 [A] must for any experienced “ [The author’s] knowledge

Two authors with more than 40 system customization. ” will benefit those looking to
years of combined library experience —VOYA, August 2, 2016 establish and enrich their
tap into their wealth of knowledge baseline knowledge of
audiovisual materials.
about discovery and user experience, Discover how—with relatively ”
sharing proven methods for setting straightforward scripts and minimal —Technical Services Quarterly,
up, promoting, and teaching their own coding—to customize the user October 6, 2016
discovery systems. interfaces to third-party systems AV collections in libraries are
from your library’s website for better
FEATURES communication with your users and to disintegrating, and their playback
• Provides a comprehensive guide lead them to your library’s services. equipment is soon to be obsolete.
that helps librarians make a library Digitizing can be the solution to decay
discovery system work better for their FEATURES and for continued access.
specific community • Offers a DIY solution for non- FEATURES
• Examines how system design and programmers to the perennial • Discusses use of off-the-shelf and
careful fine-tuning can greatly problem of online systems that don’t shareware technology
improve system efficacy exactly match individual library needs
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