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

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.

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

• Enables librarians to direct users to their library services and get specific "help" information pertinent to their local library

• Demonstrates how to make vendor interfaces much easier for their library community to use

• Emphasizes the value of unifying library online resources under a consistent "look and feel" (branding)