Journal article
A Race Against the Clock: Re-Tooling the Tutorial-What Happens When Your Library Gets a New Online Catalog?
Technical Services Quarterly, Vol.20(2), pp.13-20
09/01/2002
DOI: 10.1300/J124v20n02_02
Abstract
What happens to your Web-based library tutorial when your university gets a new online catalog? In the spring of 2000, the Instructional Services staff at the University of Iowa Libraries got the chance to answer this question. The new online catalog was to be up and running by August. The task at hand: rewrite and redesign the existing tutorial to reflect the many changes that would be brought about by the new catalog, and do it in the face of a rapidly approaching deadline. Moreover, staff had to undertake this revision without being able to see the final catalog interface because it, too, was being constantly modified. This article outlines the steps of the revision process and examines the challenges and opportunities involved in re-tooling the tutorial.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Race Against the Clock: Re-Tooling the Tutorial-What Happens When Your Library Gets a New Online Catalog?
- Creators
- Marsha Forys - University of Iowa LibrariesKathy L Magarrell - University of Iowa Libraries
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Technical Services Quarterly, Vol.20(2), pp.13-20
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- DOI
- 10.1300/J124v20n02_02
- ISSN
- 0731-7131
- eISSN
- 1555-3337
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2002
- Academic Unit
- Humanities and Social Sciences/Scholarly Impact
- Record Identifier
- 9983993175702771
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