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Library User Experience Community
Library User Experience CommunityA Medium and Slack community organized around design, and the user experience in libraries, non-profits, and higher education.
Matthew Reidsma & Library UX
A collection of articles, books, and talks. Topics include library web design, usability testing, and the design of library services for humans.
What is UX and how can it help your organization?
Below is a "gentle introduction to UX in libraries" developed by Ned Potter at the University of York. Related resources can be found at https://www.ned-potter.com/ux-in-libraries-resource-list/
Books on UX in Libraries
Using Digital Analytics for Smart Assessment by ISBN: 9780838915981Publication Date: 2017-11-30Your library has collected massive amounts of data, and the decision-making process requires that you analyze it. Farney presents technical advice that you can use to develop your own digital analytics projects, and includes contributed essays that tackle the challenges your library will face.
Mobile technology and academic libraries : innovative services for research and learning by ISBN: 0838988806Publication Date: 2017Seventeen chapters. Explores how librarians around the world are working to adapt their spaces, collections, teaching, and services to the new possibilities presented by mobile technology.
Modern Pathfinders: Creating Better Research Guides by ISBN: 9780838988176Publication Date: 2015-10-01Takes proven ideas from instructional design and user experience web design and combines them into easy-to-understand principles for making your research guides better teaching tools
Leading Libraries by ISBN: 9780838913161Publication Date: 2015-05-01Gathers the principles and best practices of leadership, pointing the way towards creating a service culture that makes every staff member a library leader.
Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians by ISBN: 9781442229006Publication Date: 2014-09-29Includes information about how to make the case for usability testing, define your audience and their goals, select a usability testing method appropriate for your particular context, plan for an in-house usability test, conduct an effective in-house usability test, analyze usability test results, and create and implement a plan for ongoing, systematic usability testing.
Library analytics and metrics: using data to drive decisions and services by ISBN: 1783300779Publication Date: 2015Enables libraries to make informed decisions, develop new services and improve user experience by collecting, analysing and utilising data.
Surviving the Future by ISBN: 9781843344773Publication Date: 2009-02-28This book assists librarians to make sense of data collection, assessment, and comparative evaluation as stepping stones to transformative quality improvement.
The Quality Infrastructure: measuring, analyzing, and improving library services by ISBN: 9780838911730Publication Date: 2012-11-01In this collection of case studies, Murphy and her team of contributors describe how quality assessment programs have been implemented and how they are used to continuously improve service at a complete cross-section of institutions.
User-Centred Library Websites by ISBN: 9781843343592Publication Date: 2008-07-31Covers methods that can be used to gather feedback from users of your website about the organisation, navigation, terminology and general usability of a website.
Getting Started with Evaluation by ISBN: 9780838911952Publication Date: 2013-08-01This workbook for managers at academic and public libraries presents an overview of evaluation and the types of metrics, linking them to strategic planning and infrastructure. It also features a detailed list of sources for metrics and concrete examples of evaluation in practice.
Academic Journals
A list of library-related journals that publish a substantial amount of UX-related content.
- The Electronic LibraryThe Electronic Library (TEL) publishes digital information research. It is particularly interested in information organization for knowledge creation, discovery, access, and sharing. Information behaviour research in this context, is also welcomed. All types of digital objects are included, for example data, records, documents, and files.
- Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP)A peer reviewed, open access journal published quarterly by the University of Alberta Learning Services. EBLIP publishes original research and commentary on the topic of evidence based library and information practice, as well as reviews of previously published research (evidence summaries) on a wide number of topics.
- Information Technology & LibrariesPublished by the Library Information Technology Association (LITA), Information Technology and Libraries includes material related to all aspects of information technology in all types of libraries.
- Journal of Academic LIbrarianshipThe Journal of Academic Librarianship, an international and refereed journal, publishes articles that focus on problems and issues germane to college and university libraries.
- Journal of Web LibrarianshipThe Journal of Web Librarianship is an international, peer-reviewed journal focused on all aspects of librarianship as practiced on the World Wide Web, including both existing and emerging roles and activities of information professionals.
- Library Hi TechLibrary Hi Tech (LHT) is concerned with technology-assisted information systems that support libraries & cultural memory, education & the academy, health & medicine, and government & citizenship.
- Reference & User Services QuarterlyReference & User Services Quarterly is the official journal of the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association. Its purpose is to disseminate information of interest to reference librarians, information specialists, and other professionals involved in user-oriented library services.
- Weave: Journal of Library User ExperienceAn open-access, peer-reviewed journal for Library User Experience professionals published by Michigan Publishing
