Creating Database-backed Library Web Pages

Using Open Source Tools

Buch | Softcover

2006
ALA Editions (Verlag)
978-0-8389-0910-2 (ISBN)

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Provides the tools to improve users' results by providing data, make site maintenance and data publishing much easier. This guide presents a complete project from concept to implementation. It serves those involved with designing and maintaining websites, and IT managers and administrators seeking guidance on hardware, software, and programming.

Database-backed Web pages provide many advantages for libraries; users get accurate and up-to-date information in real time, and site maintenance and data publishing are much easier. As appealing an idea as database-backed pages are, the ""how-tos"" of creating them remain a mystery to many librarians. This hands-on resource provides the tools to improve users' results by providing current data, make site maintenance and data publishing much easier, and even add new usefulness to existing data. Following these clear, step-by-step explanations, readers will find proven solutions for answers to questions like: What are database-backed Web pages? How much technical know-how is needed to do this? When, and for what kinds of information, are database-backed Web pages appropriate? What are Open Source tools? Who can use Open Source software? and Why is it appropriate for libraries? This authoritative, money-saving guide takes readers through a complete project from concept to implementation. It serves both beginner and expert librarians involved with designing and maintaining websites, as well as IT managers and administrators seeking expert guidance on hardware, software, and programming and documentation procedures. Packed with expert advice and links to real tools, this powerful, hands-on reference will streamline webmasters' results and customers' searches.

Stephen R. Westman is Digital Information Services Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he is involved in creating databases to organize and provide access to information on the Web. Information retrieval issues have dominated his career, as he held similar positions at Georgia College and Georgia State University, University of Texas, and Ohio State University. For 18 years, he has worked with databases, focusing for the past ten years on using relational databases to create Web pages and applications. He earned his M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2006
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chicago, IL
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Web / Internet ► Web Design / Usability
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	0-8389-0910-8 / 0838909108
ISBN-13	978-0-8389-0910-2 / 9780838909102
Zustand	Neuware