Last week I gave a talk at the Library Technology Conference in St. Paul, MN, on how to make your library website better. It was a great conference, and I had enough foresight to record my talk. The audio is a little distant at time (because I pace). Thanks to everyone who came out, and I’d love to hear what you think.

Resources

  1. The Impact of Web-scale Discovery on the Use of a Library Collection by Doug Way
  2. Convenience and its Discontents: Teaching Web-Scale Discovery in the Context of Google by Pete Coco
  3. Whitney Hess, DIY UX
  4. Whiney Hess: Don Draper is the Antithesis of User Experience
  5. Mule Design on research methods
  6. Observing the User Experience by Mike Kuniavsky
  7. Why We Do Usability Testing @ GVSU
  8. How We Do Usability Testing @ GVSU (includes IRB documents, Consent forms, etc.)
  9. Reinvigorate.net for real-time analytics
  10. Follow UX Yoda on Twitter
  11. Bad Library Websites are a Symptom by Me
  12. GVSU UI Pattern Library (source code available on Github)
  13. Mailchimp UI Pattern Library
  14. Hick’s Law
  15. Parkinson’s Law of Triviality
  16. 360Link Reset - a script to hack your link resolver
  17. Library Websites Should Be Smaller by Aaron Schmidt

Some Library Websites with Focus

Resources