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Accessibility Of Vendor-Created Video Tutorials For People With Disabilities, Joanne Oud
Accessibility Of Vendor-Created Video Tutorials For People With Disabilities, Joanne Oud
Library Publications
Many video, screencast, webinar, or interactive tutorials are created and provided by vendors for use by libraries to instruct users in database searching. This study investigates whether these vendor-created database tutorials are accessible for people with disabilities to see whether librarians can use these tutorials instead of creating them in-house. Findings on accessibility were mixed. Positive accessibility features and common accessibility problems are described, with recommendations on how to maximize accessibility.
The Christian Reformed Church Periodical Index: A Local Solution To Indexing Periodicals, Greg Sennema
The Christian Reformed Church Periodical Index: A Local Solution To Indexing Periodicals, Greg Sennema
Library Publications
This article describes the creation of a web-based database that indexes less well-known periodical titles of importance to scholars in the Christian Reformed Church, and generally not covered by other indexing services. The author explains how the data from the index, originally stored in a card catalog, was moved online to a text-based system, and eventually into its present form in a web-based system. Highlighting some of the challenges that were overcome in creating this resource, brief details are provided on how the data is stored and retrieved in the web environment, on how the data are searched and presented …