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Library Web Ecology: What You Need to Know as Web Design Coordinator

Jacquelyn Marie Erdman, Florida Atlantic University, USA

 - provides practical and realistic solutions to website problems
 - suggests different strategies, giving the pros and cons, so professionals can determine what strategy is best for their library
 - includes worksheets and examples
 - draws from the author’s wide-ranging experience in each of the major steps in developing a successful library website

Library Web Ecology is a thorough reference to help professionals in Library and Information Science (LIS) to develop a sustainable, usable, and highly effective website. The book describes the entire process of developing and implementing a successful website. Topics include: managing a web team, developing a web culture, creating a strategic plan, conducting usability studies, evaluating technology trends, and marketing the website. Worksheets and examples are included to help library web professionals to prepare their web development plan. Although this book is aimed at LIS professionals, a number of concepts can easily be applied to any organization that would like to develop a more effective website.

ISBN 1 84334 511 0
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 511 4
April 2009
208 pages  234 x 156mm  paperback  
£47.00 / US$80.00 / €60.00

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About the author

Jacquelyn Marie Erdman is an Assistant University Librarian and the Coordinator of Assessment and Planning at the S.E. Wimberly Library at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. Erdman graduated with a BA in Multimedia from Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois and an MS in Information and Library Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her interest is in the evaluation and application of online communication tools and the problems that occur with new technologies. Erdman has published articles on Second Life reference, the PDF image quality crisis, and was an advisor for the development of a LexisNexis online product.

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Contents

Introduction: can the library and the web integrate?
 - What to take from reading this book
 - Who is this book for?
 - A note about the content of this book
 - Notes

The library culture
 - Introduction
 - Rearranging the website jigsaw puzzle: the job of the web coordinator
 - Redefining the roles within the library
 - Managing change
 - Providing support and motivation
 - The road ahead
 - Further resources
 - Notes

Developing a web culture
 - Introduction
 - Why we plan
 - The planning process
 - Assessment reporting
 - Annual reports
 - Further resources
 - Notes

Establishing a website identity
Introduction
 - Part 1: website identity
 - Further resources
 - Part 2: to code or not to code: determining what software to use
 - Further resources
 - Part 3: creating the identity guidebook
 - Notes

Sustaining a healthy website
 - Introduction
 - Standards
 - Usability maintenance
 - Further resources
 - Effects of change
 - Closing the loop
 - Notes

The living web
 - Introduction
 - Which adapter fits your library?
 - Managing resources: organization and filters
 - Technologies in libraries
 - Evaluating tools
 - Further resources
 - Notes

Conclusion
 - A last word on web ecology
 - A last word on the role of the web coordinator
 - Note

Further resources list
 - Organizations, associations, listservs, and conferences
 - Management
 - Marketing
 - The planning process (excluding assessment)
 - Standards and testing (including assessment)
 - Technologies
 - Website design, coding, and software