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Customizing Vendor Systems for Better User Experiences: The Innovative Librarian's Guide: Innovative Librarian's Guide

Autor Matthew Reidsma
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2016 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Discover how-with relatively straightforward scripts and minimal coding-to customize the user interfaces to third-party systems from your library's website for better communication with your users and to lead them to your library's services.In order to provide access to online resources, libraries depend on third-party vendor software that comes with each product. While these systems do have value, they can also be confusing, awkward, frustrating, or even misleading for library users. Imagine how much better your patrons' user experience would be if the software were customized specifically to fit your library. This how-to guide shows library staff how to take a DIY approach to customize the web interface to vendor-hosted online systems, thereby resolving usability problems and providing the ability to respond quickly to problems or evolving needs.The book begins with an explanation of how to test library vendor software for user experience, then goes on to present solutions to common usability problems through tutorials and case studies on using JavaScript or jQuery to change how a web browser displays that software. It also covers ongoing assessment methods to ensure that user needs have been satisfied. By using these tools, libraries can take some control of "black box" library software and customize it based on local needs.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781440843846
ISBN-10: 1440843848
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Libraries Unlimited
Seria Innovative Librarian's Guide

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Offers a DIY solution for non-programmers to the perennial problem of online systems that don't exactly match individual library needs

Notă biografică

Matthew Reidsma is web services librarian at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI, and cofounder and editor-in-chief of Weave: Journal of Library User Experience.

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsChapter 1 Library Vendor ToolsChapter 2 JavaScript and Vendor ToolsChapter 3 Working with Developer ToolsChapter 4 JavaScript BasicsChapter 5 JavaScript BookmarkletsChapter 6 Advanced JavaScriptChapter 7 JavaScript ExamplesChapter 8 jQuery BasicsChapter 9 Advanced jQueryChapter 10 jQuery ExamplesChapter 11 Getting Data In and Out of Vendor ToolsChapter 12 AJAX ExamplesChapter 13 Helper Scripts in PHPConclusionIndex

Recenzii

[A]n in-depth, yet easy-to-follow overview of applying minimal coding to customize user interfaces of library systems. . . . [A] must for any experienced librarian initiating or continuing system customization.
For libraries frustrated by information design and usability issues in hosted vendor solutions, Reidsma offers an empowering framework for addressing these and other user experience concerns. . . . the approach of the book holds substantial value as a dynamic framework for enhancing often unwieldy remote tools with agile local extensions, as well as for seeing new opportunities and creating better user experiences.