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Author : Nolan Lushington,Willis N. Mills
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Library Professional Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015001598534
Author : Aaron Schmidt,Amanda Etches
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781555707811
User experience (UX) characterizes how a person feels about using a product, system or service. UX design incorporates the practical aspects of utility, ease of use and efficiency to make your web design and functionality decisions with patrons in mind. This results in a better design, a more intuitive interface, and a more enjoyable experience. This book shows you how to get there by providing hands-on steps and best practices for UX design principles, practices, and tools to engage with patrons online and build the best web presence for your library. You ll find out how to conduct a usability test, perform a card sort, make decisions on how to build the architecture of your site, create personas as a cornerstone of your website planning process, create a content strategy, and perform an experience-based evaluation of your site.
Author : Nolan Lushington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015055587052
The history, trends, and design criteria for the ideal library.
Author : Callan Bignoli,Lauren Stara
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838949788
In the face of rapid change and an ever-widening constellation of challenges, it’s crucial for library leaders to pull back to the question of “why?” Plotting a sustainable way forward depends upon recommitting ourselves to our underlying values, such as customer service and community-building, while fostering the improvements that change makes possible. With passion, patience, and fortitude, libraries can stride confidently into the future. In this book, noted speakers and consultants Bignoli and Stara speak directly to library directors, managers, administrators, and technology staff, offering concrete guidance on setting or resetting strategic priorities. Taking an interconnected and specific approach to planning for and strengthening the library environment as a whole, their book discusses why libraries should embrace change as a fundamental part of library life; explores how to harness rapid change to provide more responsive, user-centered library service; addresses the ways in which libraries straddle the physical and the digital, in areas such as service provision and collections, illuminating how they overlap and can be improved using similar philosophies; presents both a comprehensive overview of library technologies as well as related team and change management advice, all grounded in user experience principles; shows how the concepts of sustainability and flexibility apply to physical space planning and design, from furniture selection and arrangement to infrastructure; and provides sound guidance on project management, problem solving, preparing for future challenges, personal reflection and self-care, and other leadership topics.
Author : Andy Priestner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 9798596805925
"A comprehensive and practical handbook exploring the value and applicability of UX Research & Design to libraries. As well as detailed methodology, there are numerous case studies from around the world and insights from practitioner librarians. This volume takes you through all the stages of the UX Process, from research, to data mapping and analysis, to idea generation and finally prototyping and iteration. Written by former librarian and experienced UX trainer and consultant Andy Priestner, it is intended for use by all library staff regardless of previous experience and seeks to place the user at the heart of library service development and delivery."--
Author : Andy Priestner,Matt Borg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317003120
Modern library services can be incredibly complex. Much more so than their forebears, modern librarians must grapple daily with questions of how best to implement innovative new services, while also maintaining and updating the old. The efforts undertaken are immense, but how best to evaluate their success? In this groundbreaking new book from Routledge, library practitioners, anthropologists, and design experts combine to advocate a new focus on User Experience (or ‘UX’) research methods. Through a combination of theoretical discussion and applied case studies, they argue that this ethnographic and human-centred design approach enables library professionals to gather rich evidence-based insights into what is really going on in their libraries, allowing them to look beyond what library users say they do to what they actually do. Edited by the team behind the international UX in Libraries conference, User Experience in Libraries will ignite new interest in a rapidly emerging and game-changing area of research. Clearly written and passionately argued, it is essential reading for all library professionals and students of Library and Information Science. It will also be welcomed by anthropologists and design professionals working in related fields.
Author : Diane Koen,Traci Engel Lesneski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110617535
Library design in the 21st century has one common theme: collaboration is at the heart of innovation. Designing modern libraries is a complex process involving many stakeholders and participants. Libraries of all types work with an almost limitless range of constituent groups for input, buy-in and successful implementation. Securing support for new library buildings and renovations of libraries engages many people: library clients, community members, faculty, funding agencies, donors, governing authorities, librarians, architects, interior designers and planners. Telling the right story and getting to the end game demand carefully crafted approaches, wide-ranging skills, a unified vision and productive teamwork. The IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section has selected the best papers presented by award-winning architects and international thought leaders from the academic and public library sector at our recent satellite conferences and seminars: "Collaborative Strategies for Successful Library Design" (Chicago, Illinois), "What comes after the Third Place?" (Columbus, Ohio); "Key Issues for Library Space: International Perspectives" (Maynooth, Ireland); "Storage, the final frontier" (Munich, Germany) and "Telling and selling the space story" (Wrocław, Poland). The stories by the library and design professionals within this publication illustrate how powerful a role partnerships, outreach and cooperation play in a library project’s success.
Author : Aaron Schmidt,Amanda Etches
Publisher : ALA Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838912265
Useful, useable, desirable: like three legs of a stool, if your library is missing the mark on any one of these it's bound to wobble.
Author : Nolan Lushington,Wolfgang Rudorf,Liliane Wong
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783038216308
Libraries as a building type have been subjected to substantial changes in particular in the past ten years. Milestones such as Rem Koolhaas’ Seattle Central Library from 2004 reinvented the typology completely and reflected a development from elitist temple of learning to a public living room. Hybrids between library and department store or theater were conceived. Today, the ubiquity of electronic devices and media needs to be taken into account by the designer: every new library has areas without any books now. This work of reference explains systematically all technological and planning requirements of library design. Special features such as RFID, signage, acoustics or specific structural load issues are explained in texts by experts from the fields of architecture and library science. Finally, approximately 40 best-practice case studies of contemporary library design are documented extensively. They are organized in four categories – national libraries, large public libraries, small public libraries, university libraries – and comprise high-profile examples such as Jo Coenen’s Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, Alvaro Siza’s Public Library Viana do Castelo in Portugal or Mecanoo’s Library of Birmingham from 2013.
Author : Nolan Lushington,Willis N. Mills
Publisher : Syracuse, N.Y. : Gaylord Professional Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015007262895
Author : Emy Nelson Decker,Seth M. Porter
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781440856129
This book demonstrates how aesthetics, design elements, and visual literacy can be implemented in the library to enhance spaces, programs, services, instruction, and outreach so that your library will appeal to all users. Libraries have come to accept that they must rethink how they appeal to users, and harnessing the power of design can be a powerful means for addressing the changing needs of the community. Decker and Porter introduce "engaging design"—an umbrella term that incorporates multiple design frameworks with a focus on a three-prong approach: aesthetics, design thinking, and service design. These frameworks can be used to guide design choices that will aid in teaching and engaging current and potential library users. In the course of a lively and interesting narrative, Engaging Design introduces basic concepts of aesthetics and good design and explores examples of its successful uses in the academic, public, and special library. It provides simple steps for implementing subtle, but powerful, techniques to improve instruction, human-computer interaction, e-learning, public services spaces, wayfinding signage, and all manner of library programs, events, and services. In addition, the authors recommend easy-to-implement best practices that will help librarians to enhance library-goers' experience. Library administrators will also look to this book for assistance in best addressing the needs of the modern library user.
Author : Mark Aaron Polger
Publisher : ALA Editions
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Library signs
ISBN : 0838937853
"This book provides tips and best practices for developing better library signage and provides guidance for creating a signage strategy"--
Author : Theng, Yin-Leng,Foo, Schubert,Goh, Dion,Na, Jin-Cheon
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781599048802
"This book is an in-depth collection aimed at developers and scholars of research articles from the expanding field of digital libraries"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Joan Coachman Durrance,Karen E. Fisher,Marian Bouch Hinton
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838908926
The authors developed the "How Libraries and Librarians Help (HLLH) Outcome Model," field testing it in six libraries over two years. In this practical reference, they share their findings, step-by-step HLLH methods, and library success stories that bring the process to life with outcomes like, "Empowering Youth" and "Strengthening Community."
Author : Lynn Silipigni Connaway
Publisher : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1556535007
This compilation provides a sequential overview of some of OCLC Research's user behavior research findings that articulate the need for the design of future library services to be all about the user.
