Tito Sierra, Jason Casden, and Kim Duckett at NCSU have a DLF presentation via slideshare that effectively collapses the work subject librarians have to do to push a large number of course pages out to the library site. An innovative method for monitoring twitter to both build personas and track the library’s brand Meredith Weiss [...]
Tag Archives: Usability
Library Usability Links 11/20/08
20-Nov-08Library Usability Links 11/16/08
16-Nov-08The University of Minnesota Walter Library hosts World Usability Day talks in conjunction with Campus IT. New to me: Interactions which is available from the ACM Digital Library A description of user personas, this one with a useful persona template [doc] EDSF report on Color Preference in Web Design [pdf] “Results from this research found [...]
Library Usability Links 11/7/08
07-Nov-08New to me: 10 Steps to User Persona Personas expert Lene Nielson has a question and answer session on personas with the Journal of HC Vistas earlier this year. She is also the author of the above 10 Steps to User Personas. “You have to distinguish between the process of creating a system and testing [...]
Library Usability Links 10/31/08
31-Oct-08The 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 [...]
Library Usability Links 10/24/08
24-Oct-08LITA National Forum topic on website redesign, including usability Interesting, free, and surprising web analytics service ClickTale. Including heatmaps! Feng GUI analyzes the look of your site’s visual attraction Silverback looks like a useful usability testing tool, but it’s Mac-only Visual Literacy has a periodic table of visualization methods Internet Librarian 2008 related review of [...]
Michael Magoolaghan writes about working with library design as an information architect. He includes a very interesting chart that maps out patron behavior: Six Revisions has an excellent post of links to 20 sites for mastering web design Wayne College Library addresses quiet study in their library weblog Edward Lee from Ohio State has an [...]
Library Usability Links 10/16/08
16-Oct-08A user rants against librarians commenting on her books Lots of interesting data points in this CDWG survey of students and faculty: 39% of students want to be able to chat online with their professors while 23% of campuses offer it. 63% of students use technology every day to prepare for class. A Colorado State [...]
Library Usability Links 10/10/08
10-Oct-08iPhone users frustrated with mobile news website design The UKSG completed a 3-year study finding that link resolvers are driving article use among academic library patrons [doc] Southwester College student newspaper reports that single students hogging study rooms is impolite Michael Lascarides, the new usability analyst at NYPL, writes about the work of Willliam “Holly” [...]
Library Usability links: 10/2/08
02-Oct-08Activity in the library increases at Wake Forest U. after Starbucks is added. Increased social opportunities cited. The Bibliocommons team describe some of the findings they’ve run across by talking to users. Lots of very interesting points are made. New to me: Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) which is released under a BSD license and [...]
Library Usability Roundup 9/26/08
26-Sep-08Here’s a quick roundup of what’s happening with usability and libraries: University of Minnesota Library holds a Usability Lab Open House Springer releases a new study on eBook behavior at Universities which was conducted in conjunction with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,United States; University of Florida, United States; University Library of Turku, Finland; Centre [...]