Using IPhones, IPads, and IPods
A Practical Guide for Librarians- Authors:
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- Publisher:
- 2014
Summary
Apple Inc. has sold more than 500 million iPhones, iPads, and iPodTouches. Library patrons are increasingly coming to libraries with the expectation that their Apple devices will work flawlessly with library services—or that they can find an iPad to use at the library if they don’t have one of their own. Libraries and librarians today are expected to be adept with the latest technology and to be able to apply it to popular use as well as scholarly research.
Using iPhones and iPads: A Practical Guide for Librarians offers library professionals a clear path to Apple readiness. The authors, a librarian and a software developer at a prominent research library, combine their experience in library public services and mobile technology to provide easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions to help you get up to speed on:
- Ensuring that your library website and online resources are iDevice-friendly
- Creating a custom app for your library and making it available in iTunes
- Starting an iPad lending program
- Using iDevices for librarianship and library work
- Assessing and advertising iDevice programs
- Acquiring, configuring, and deploying iDevices to users
- Recommended apps that can help you and your users
Whether you work at a large academic institution or a small public library, this book will show you how to become iDevice-literate quickly and easily.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2014
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4422-2687-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4422-2688-3
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 194
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- List of Illustrations No access
- Preface No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
- CHAPTER 1. Assessing iDevice Usage No access
- CHAPTER 2. Making Websites iDevice-Ready No access
- CHAPTER 3. Making Library Resources iDevice-Ready No access
- CHAPTER 4. Making a Custom iDevice App No access
- CHAPTER 5.Deciding Which Devices to Support No access
- CHAPTER 6. Making the Case, Financing, and Purchasing for an iDevice Lending Program No access
- CHAPTER 7. iDevice Configuration No access
- CHAPTER 8. Configuring E-Books and E-Readers No access
- CHAPTER 9. Configuring Resources for Multimedia No access
- CHAPTER 10. Promoting Your iDevice Services No access
- CHAPTER 11. Assessing Your iDevice Programs No access
- CHAPTER 12. Learning iDevice Tips and Tricks No access
- CHAPTER 13. Using iDevices for Library Work No access
- CHAPTER 14. Adding Apple TV No access
- Appendix. Recommended iDevice Apps No access Pages 181 - 186
- Index No access Pages 187 - 192
- About the Authors No access Pages 193 - 194





