[Libs-Or] New LIS Titles from the Oregon State Library

Darci Hanning darci.hanning at state.or.us
Thu Feb 2 14:32:54 PST 2012


Greetings everyone!

The following new titles are available for interlibrary loan from the Oregon State Library. If you would like to request these or other materials from the Oregon State Library, please use your library's established interlibrary loan process or send your full name, the name of your library, complete title information, shipping address, and a phone number to the document delivery department at library.request at state.or.us<mailto:library.request at state.or.us> or (fax) 503-588-7119.

Items will be checked out to your library, not to you personally, for 4 weeks (print materials) or 2 weeks (videos). Materials will be delivered via mail or Orbis Cascade Alliance Courier, and you may return them the same way. Normally a single copy is purchased and is loaned on a first-come-first-serve basis. You may be put on a hold list for several weeks. Thank you for your patience.

Making Library Web Sites Usable<http://catalog.willamette.edu/search%7ES2/t?SEARCH=Making+Library+Web+Sites+Usable> : A LITA Guide, by Tom Lehman and Terry Nikkel. New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2008

>From the publisher: If your library's website is not as user-friendly as it could or should be, you need this book. A LITA guide, it is the most authoritative, [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uA-dSjA3u3E/TyrsR13cUNI/AAAAAAAAAGk/0GmuCxA_BMs/s400/usable.jpg] <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uA-dSjA3u3E/TyrsR13cUNI/AAAAAAAAAGk/0GmuCxA_BMs/s1600/usable.jpg> current reference on usability testing for libraries. It gives you practical advice in clear, non-technical prose, plus success stories from 18 academic, public, corporate, and government libraries. Read it and you will learn what usability assessments are, why they are important for libraries, why you should do them regularly, and what the most common challenges are. You will also learn all of the necessary how-tos, whats, and whys for the most common assessment techniques and how to interpret your results, document findings, and effectively communicate results and recommendations.

Usability-in-action success stories from Purdue, the University of Virginia, and Wright State University libraries; the Clinton Macomb Public Library in Michigan; the MITRE corporate library; and the library at NASA Goddard offer rare insights and practical advice for facing challenges like limited time, working within a budget, and rallying support for website changes. For library webmasters, members of library Web or usability teams, and library administrators committed to putting their patrons at the center of their website design strategy but unsure of how to begin.


Public Library Computer Technology Benchmarks<http://catalog.willamette.edu/search/X?SEARCH=Public+Library+Computer+Technology+Benchmarks&SORT=D&searchscope=2>, [New York, N.Y.] : Primary Research Group, c2011.

>From the publisher: [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iJIB0x0ju1o/Tyrn7lVXw2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/PRfirHbyVk8/s400/PLCTB.jpg] <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iJIB0x0ju1o/Tyrn7lVXw2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/PRfirHbyVk8/s1600/PLCTB.jpg> This 200+ page report looks closely at public library computer technology policies. It looks at purchasing plans for various brands of computer workstations, laptops, netbooks, tablet computers, smartphones, eBook readers and other technology. It looks at library plans for dual boot computers, computer technology centers, computer training videos and much more.

In addition to information on computer hardware the report looks at plans in patron training, outsourcing, help desk staffing levels and much more. [Read more<http://www.primaryresearch.com/view_product.php?report_id=301>]





Be sure to check out our Library and Information Science (LIS) blog (http://osl-lis.blogspot.com/) to discover the most recent additions to our LIS collection and search our catalog (http://oregon.gov/OSL/index.shtml) for our complete holdings. The library science collection is meant to support the whole Oregon library community. The Library Development Division welcomes your suggestions for acquisitions - see the blog for an input form or email us!

This collection is supported in whole by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Oregon State Library.

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Darci Hanning * Technology Development Consultant * Library Development Services
Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR  97301
503-378-2527 darci.hanning at state.or.us<mailto:darci.hanning at state.or.us>

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