Putting the User First: 30 Strategies for Transforming Library Services - Softcover

McDonald, Courtney Greene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 083898732X ISBN 13: 9780838987322

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2014

Synopsis

User experience is everywhere. From your library’s website to the signage by the elevators, everything contributes to the overall user experience of our patrons. Just one simple idea can transform your library: put the user first. But as you likely already know, just because something's simple doesn't mean it's easy. How best to identify, implement, and evaluate user-driven changes in order to improve physical and virtual services? The good news is that even small changes can make big headway. Putting the User First: 30 Strategies for Transforming Library Services will give you 30 hands-on strategies and practical suggestions to enable you to begin transforming your library, library services, and even your personal practice to be more responsive, effective and user-centered today.

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About the Author

Courtney Greene McDonald is Head of the Discovery & Research Services department at the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, USA. She has presented and written on a variety of topics, most recently on discovery tools and user experience and on mobile services for libraries, including co-authoring a book, The Anywhere Library: A Primer for the Mobile Web. She earned her Master of Library Science degree, as well as a BA in English and Journalism, from Indiana University-Bloomington, and holds a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction from DePaul University in Chicago.

Edition details

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 083898732X
• ISBN 13: 9780838987322
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 104