• The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) has a call out for papers for next June’s conference. Suggested topics include user studies.
• The webmaster library claims that flash websites kill business. Business sites, sure, but what about education sites?
• NASA is looking for a digital librarian to conduct usability testing, among other things.
• New to me: a great resource at Rosenfeld Media
• The WoW Librarian reports on Website Redesign: Perspectives from the Field session from Lita conference
• Andrew Chen talks about generating A/B candidates for testing (which is usually used in advertising, but it’s an interesting process)
• Forrester releases a report on getting the most from design personas (yours for a mere $279)
• WordPress releases a usability study conducted by Ball State. [Their 1st class report is available in both Slides and PDF]
• The E Ink display (currently powering the Kindle) is evolving
• The Ohio State University Library usability team talks about their ongoing work designing navigation terms for their upcoming redesign
• The OLA Quarterly has issued a call for papers; topics include the usability of online catalogs
• The Hamilton Public library releases a usability study conducted on their website

I signed up for the 10 week Connectivism MOOC starting this week. If you thought an undergrad class with 200 students was bad, try getting your bearings among 1,600 other students. I’ll be curious how this thing goes, and evolves, but I’m mostly interested in the topic.

More details here.