Tag Archives for User Experience
The Book Stop pop-up library project
The Book Stop Project is a design concept offering a huge potential for community libraries to evolve from monolithic buildings to activated public spaces. Read More
What books? Where?
As part of a $50,000 planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the analysis is aimed at fostering engagement with print resources among library users, particularly with open stack print collections and users within the local community. Read More
Closing the divide: Subject librarians and scholarly communication librarians can work together to reach common goals
As ACRL President, I am very interested in the changes that our members and the profession are experiencing and in making connections to our goals in the ACRL Plan for Excellence.1 Our plan enables ACRL to invest member resources in … Continue reading
ProQuest Dissertations now discoverable in Google Scholar
ProQuest and Google are expanding their collaboration by indexing almost half a million full text dissertations from the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database, the leading source of emerging research from the world’s great universities. Google Scholar users can now … Continue reading
Evergreen 3.0 revolutionizes how library staff does business
The Evergreen community announced the release of Evergreen 3.0, a major upgrade that will change the way library staff use and interact with Evergreen.Evergreen 3.0 features a new staff client that can run in a web browser on a desktop, … Continue reading
Autism and the Academic Library: A Study of Online Communication (preprint)
Increased prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses within the general population is reflected in the growing number of college and university students with ASD. This exploratory study used an unobtrusive qualitative content analysis design to explore the experiences of … Continue reading
Visitors to HomeTeamNS’ clubhouses now have free digital access to eight SPH magazines
Visitors to HomeTeamNS’ five clubhouses in Tampines, Balestier, Chinatown, Sembawang and Bukit Batok now have unlimited free access to eight magazines from Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) Magazines’ digital library. Read More
Innovative Delivers Market-Leading Digital Asset Management with Responsive Web Experience in Vital Release 8.0
Innovative Interfaces has launched Vital Release 8.0 with a new fully responsive user interface that provides instant access to important repositories from any device. Vital, Innovative’s digital asset management solution, allows libraries and other institutions to create a beautiful and … Continue reading
What are the 10 key things that make a city smart?
Smart cities need an orchestration framework. The smart cities of tomorrow require more than simply deploying connectivity, sensors, and devices. Incrementalism will not serve cities well. Foresight and planning are necessary to build cities that are truly smart. Read More
Microsoft’s path guide is an unconvetional approach to indoor navigation
Indoor mapping is one of those stubborn problems that seems to only have solutions that involve a great deal of money and infrastructure. Path Guide is an app currently available only on Android that focuses on the navigation part of … Continue reading