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Selected Resources
Effective Web Design:
 a Fresh Look 

Friday, December 6, 2002
Noon to 2pm Eastern Standard Time

Quote

Dynamic database-driven web sites are the next generation of library services.

- Laura Pope Robbins

Webliography
Selected Readings and Resources

Usability

Cervone, Frank. “Presentations.” (2002) http://www.cervone.com/html/presentations.html

Campbell, Nicole, ed. Usability Assessment of Library-Related Web Sites: Methods and Case Studies. Chicago: Library Instruction Round Table News (LITA), American Library Association,  2001.

McMullen, Susan. “Usability Testing in a Library Web Site Redesign Project.” Reference Services Review. 29, 1 (2002) 7-22.

Nielsen, Jakob and Marie Tahir. Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed. Indianapolis: New Riders, 2002.

“Jakob Neilsen’s Website.” http://www.useit.com

Norlin, Elaina. Usability Testing for Library Websites: A Hands-On-Guide. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002.

Peterson, Billie. “Tech Talk: Web Site Usability.” Library Instruction Round Table News (LITA). 24, 4 (2002) 13-15.

Sklar, Joel. Designing Web Sites. Boston, Course Technology, 2001.

Spool, Jared M. Web Site Usability: A Designer’s Guide. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.

Spool, Jared. “Articles.” User Interface Engineering. http://www.uie.com/moreart.htm

 

Writing for the Web

“Creating User-Centered Copy.” http://uncle-netword.com/articles/writeweb4.html

“Usable Web – Writing Styles.” http://usableweb.com/topics/001310-0-0.html

Degener, Jutta. (1998). “What is Good Hypertext Writing?”
http://www.kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/ht/writing.html

Nielsen, Jakob. “Writing for the Web.”  http://useit.com/papers/webwriting/

Sun Microsystems. “Writing for the Web.” http://www.sun.com/980713/webwriting/

Database-Driven Web Sites

Adalian, Paul T. and Judy Swanson. “Locally Developed Web-Enabled Databases: New Roles and Opportunities for Libraries.” Reference Services Review. 29, 3 (2001) 238-252.

Antelman, Kristin. “Getting Out of the HTML Business : The Database-Driven Web Site Solution.” InformationTechnology and Libraries. 18, 4 (1999) 176-181.  http://www.lita.org/ital/1804_antelman.html

Ashenfelter, John P. “Getting Started with Web Databases.” Webreview (1999) http://www.webreview.com/1999/02_26/developers/02_26_99_1.shtml

Davis, Francie C. and Laura Pope Robbins. “Dynamic Database-Driven Web Sites: Planning, Praise, and Pitfalls.” PowerPoint Presentation: http://www.dowling.edu/library/papers/CIL/ddd/dddpaper.pdf.

Hackos, JoAnn T. Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery. New York: Wiley, 2002.

Roberts, Gary. “Designing a Database-Driven Web Site, or, The Evolution of the InfoIguana,” Computers in Libraries, Oct. 2000, v.20, no. 9, page 26.

Tiffin, Anne Travis and Elaina Norlin. “Testing the Competition: Usability of Commercial Information Sites Compared with Academic Library Web Sites.” College & Research Libraries. 63, 5 (2002): 433-448.

 

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