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User Experience in Libraries: Applying Ethnography and Human-Centred Design [Kõva köide]

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  • Formaat: Hardback, 212 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 570 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2016
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1472451007
  • ISBN-13: 9781472451002
  • Formaat: Hardback, 212 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 570 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2016
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1472451007
  • ISBN-13: 9781472451002
How much do you really know about the user experience of your library spaces and services? Do you observe and record your users' behaviour? Do you gather as much qualitative data as quantitative? This title demonstrates how user experience research can be conducted on a large or small scale, and more.

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.

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"The question becomes how to get this book, these powerful chapters, into the right hands...There are no answers offered in this review, other than for practitioners to keep talking and sharing. If were lucky, with its honesty and rational approach, User Experience in Libraries: Applying Ethnography and Human-Centered Design can break through." Heidi Steiner Burkhardt, University of Michigan Library, Weave: Journal of Library User Experience

"This book serves as a guide, and inspiration, for anyone who is engaged in public service in a library setting and interested in designing a research project that evaluates library space and services, from one shot instructional sessions to reference to remodeling the library space itself. While the focus of the book is academic libraries, and the user group that the studies considers are primarily student users, this book describes user experience research methodologies with enough detail and references that any library could design a user experience research project that examines any user population. User Experience in Libraries provides novice researchers and experienced researchers alike with the tools to apply this methodology and use the resulting data to create impactful services and spaces, demonstrating the value that libraries continue to bring." -Ariel A. E. Scotese, Cornell University Law Library, Journal of New Librarianship

List of tables
vii
List of figures
viii
Preface and acknowledgements ix
List of contributors
xi
1 Uncovering complexity and detail: the UX proposition
1(8)
Andy Priestner
Matt Borg
2 Using ethnographic methods to study library use
9(12)
Bryony Ramsden
3 Embracing an ethnographic agenda: context, collaboration, and complexity
21(17)
Donna M. Lanclos
4 Holistic UX: harness your library's data fetish to solve the right problems
38(11)
Matt Borg
Matthew Reidsma
5 Applying human-centred design to the library experience
49(19)
Paul-Jervis Heath
6 The why, what and how of using ethnography for designing user experience in libraries (and a few pitfalls to avoid)
68(16)
Leah Emary
7 Identifying the barriers: taskscapes and the social contexts of library UX
84(10)
Andrew D. Asher
8 Illuminating study spaces at Cambridge University with spacefinder: a case study
94(9)
Andy Priestner
9 WhoHas?: a pilot study exploring the value of a peer-to-peer sub-lending service
103(5)
Helen Murphy
10 User experience beyond ramps: the invisible problem and the special case
108(13)
Penny Andrews
11 Changing the dialogue: the story of the award-winning Alan Gilbert learning commons
121(16)
Rosie Jones
Nicola Grayson
12 UX and a small academic library
137(8)
Margaret Westbury
13 Understanding our students and ourselves: transformative library instruction through an ethnographic lens
145(10)
Michael Courtney
Carrie Donovan
14 What makes an informal learning space?: a case study from Sheffield Hallam University
155(18)
Bea Turpin
Deborah Harrop
Edward Oyston
Maurice Teasdale
David Jenkin
John McNamara
15 Spaces for learning?: using ethnographic techniques: a case study from the University Library, Edge Hill University
173(5)
Helen Jamieson
16 Are you sitting comfortably ...?
178(12)
Elizabeth Tilley
17 UX in libraries: leaping the chasm
190(7)
Andy Priestner
Matt Borg
Index 197
Andy Priestner manages Cambridge Universitys pioneering FutureLib innovation programme, employing user experience and design thinking to develop new library services across the university. He is the founder of the UX in Libraries Conference and provides training and consultancy on the subject to institutions across Europe.

Matt Borg was an academic librarian at Sheffield Hallam University for fourteen years, during which time he was responsible for a new research-based approach to user experience. He is now a Solutions Expert at ProQuest's Ex Libris, where he works to bring new technology to libraries across Europe, as well as a freelance trainer in UX techniques.