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Category Archives: Usability
From Need to Want: How to Maximize Social Impact for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
At the NDP at Three event organized by IMLS yesterday, Sayeed Choudhury on the “Open Scholarly Communications†panel suggested that libraries think about return on impact in addition to return on investment (ROI). He further elaborated on this point by … Continue reading
Posted in Librarianship, Library, management, Usability, user experience
Tagged archives, change, d4d, design thinking, digital collection, goal, impact, innovation, libraries, museums, ndpthree, social entrepreneurship, ux
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Cybersecurity, Usability, Online Privacy, and Digital Surveillance
** This post was originally published in ACRL TechConnect on May. 9, 2016.*** Cybersecurity is an interesting and important topic, one closely connected to those of online privacy and digital surveillance. Many of us know that it is difficult to … Continue reading
Posted in Library, Technology, Usability, user experience, Web
Tagged data security, digital freedom, encryption, Internet, password, soc 2, tor
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Three Recent Talks of Mine on UX, Data Visualization, and IT Management
I have been swamped at work and pretty quiet here in my blog. But I gave a few talks recently. So I wanted to share those at least. I presented about how to turn the traditional library IT department and its operation that … Continue reading
Posted in ALA, Library, presentation, Technology, Usability, user experience
Tagged code4lib, Data Visualization, IT, management, ux
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Redesigning the Item Record Summary View in a Library Catalog and a Discovery Interface
***Â This post was originally published in ACRL TechConnect on Oct. 15, 2013. *** A. Oh, the Library Catalog Almost all librarians have a love-hate relationship with their library catalogs (OPAC), which are used by library patrons. Interestingly enough, I … Continue reading
Posted in Usability, user experience, Web
Tagged display, library catalog, search results, ui, web design
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Stealth Librarianship: Creating Meaningful Connections Through User Experience, Outreach, and Liaising
I am doing a part of the ACRL E-Learning Webcast, “Stealth Librarianship: Creating Meaningful Connections Through User Experience, Outreach, and Liaising,” next Tuesday with Kiyomi Deards and Erin Dorney and very excited about it. I will be covering UX as … Continue reading
Posted in Library, Usability, user experience
Tagged #stealthlib, ACRL, stealth librarianship, ux, webcast
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Good Design: Pleasing to the Eyes “and” Functional
*** This post has been originally published in ACRL TechConnect on Mar. 13, 2013. *** Many librarians work with technology even if their job titles are not directly related to technology. Design is somewhat similar to technology in that aspect. … Continue reading
Enabling the Research ‘Flow’ and Serendipity in Today’s Digital Library Environment
*** This post has been also published on ACRLog on Oct. 29, 2012. *** Today’s library users do not carry pencils and notebooks to a library. They do no longer want to be isolated to concentrate on deep study or … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Library, Research, Technology, Usability
Tagged bookstacks, browsing, digital collection, digital library, discovery, physical colleciton, serendipity, stacks
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Big Type and Readability
** This blog post has been originally published in ACRL TechConnect 0n May 30, 2012. ** The Big Type Jeffrey Zeldman published a post that explains his choice of big type in his website/blog last week. If you are curious … Continue reading
Posted in Usability, Web
Tagged readability, text, usability, web, web design, website
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Making Library e-Books on the e-Book Reader Visible
***  This post has been originally posted to the ACRL TechConnect blog. *** Browsing Experience in the Virtual vs. the Physical Space However entangled our lives are in virtual spaces, it is in the physical space that we exist. For this … Continue reading
Posted in Library, Technology, Usability
Tagged book, dummy, dummy bookmark, e-book, e-book reader, Kindle, stacks
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