Library instruction design : learning from Google and Apple

✍ Scribed by Di Su

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing, , Elsevier Ltd
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 152
• Series: Chandos information professional series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The design philosophies of Google and Apple represent different approaches to new product design. Googles model features bottom-up and data-driven decision-making processes, while Apples model is to design and build products top-down. Library instruction program design may learn from these differing but complementary approaches. Inspired by Google’s and Apple’s success, Library Instruction Design details how library instruction program design may learn from the philosophy of product design in the business world. In designing library instruction, a Google-philosophy approach teaches what the user wants to know while an Apple-philosophy approach teaches what the librarian thinks the user needs to learn. These two design philosophies aim at different teaching objectives reflecting library and information science education in modern society. The book is divided into five sections, with opening sections covering library instruction, the philosophy of library instruction design and design philosophy from different angles. Later sections discuss applying Google’s model and applying Apple’s model.

• Offers a creative way to think about library instruction program design
• Suggests two design approaches grounded in two philosophies, represented by the design approaches of Google and Apple
• Details the differences and complementarities between top-down and bottom-up approaches to design

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
List of tables, Page xi
Acknowledgements, Page xiii
Foreword: Evolving Instructional Activities by Using the Philosophies of Google and Apple, Pages xv-xvi
About the author, Page xvii
Introduction, Pages xix-xxiv
1 - Library instruction, Pages 1-17
2 - Philosophy and practice, Pages 19-40
3 - Design philosophy from a different world, Pages 41-62
4 - Learning from Google and Apple, Pages 63-73
5 - Applying Google’s style: bottom-up, Pages 75-87
6 - Applying Apple’s style: top-down, Pages 89-98
7 - Conclusion, Pages 99-101
Appendix 1, Pages 103-105
Appendix 2, Pages 107-114
Appendix 3, Pages 115-120
Appendix 4, Pages 121-127
Bibliography, Pages 129-139
Index, Pages 141-143