Making Libraries Accessible: Adaptive Design and Assistive Technology

by Char Booth

Overview

In this issue of Library Technology Reports, editor Booth makes the case that that attention to the core principles of consistency, flexibility, and simplicity go hand in hand with libraries’ commitments to open information and accessibility.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838958629
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Series:	Library Technology Reports
Pages:	46
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

Char Booth advocates for the integration of pedagogical training in library education, informing user services through local research, creating library cultures of experimentation and assessment, and exploring open, accessible, and collaborative solutions to library sustainability. She is the Instruction Services Manager and E-Learning Librarian at the Claremont Colleges, and is on the faculty of the ACRL Information Literacy Immersion Institute. An ALA Emerging Leader and Library Journal Mover & Shaker, she blogs at info-mational and tweets @charbooth. Her publications include Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators and Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies.