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From Insight To Action With Appreciative Inquiry, Kristin Meyer
From Insight To Action With Appreciative Inquiry, Kristin Meyer
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Two people can view the same thing—the same data, issue, or set of circumstances—and discover different opportunities because of their unique perspectives. Sometimes when we engage in User Experience (UX) work, we uncover a problem or an unmet user need, and the way forward is unclear. At this point, it can be beneficial to pull together a group of people in your library who work in different departments and have various roles; the best ideas often emerge when we gather diverse viewpoints.
Simply talking about the issue is not usually effective, but numerous facilitation techniques can help lead groups from …
Michigan In The Novel 2012-2016: A Five-Year Checklist, Robert Beasecker
Michigan In The Novel 2012-2016: A Five-Year Checklist, Robert Beasecker
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Masked By Trust: Bias In Library Discovery, Matthew Reidsma
Masked By Trust: Bias In Library Discovery, Matthew Reidsma
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The rise of Google and its integration into nearly every aspect of our lives has pushed libraries to adopt similar "Google-like" search tools, called discovery systems. Because these tools are provided by libraries and search scholarly materials rather than the open web, we often assume they are more "accurate" or "reliable" than their general-purpose peers like Google or Bing. But discovery systems are still software written by people with prejudices and biases, library software vendors are subject to strong commercial pressures that are often hidden behind diffuse collection-development contracts and layers of administration, and they struggle to integrate content from …
Responsive Web Design For Libraries, Matthew Reidsma
Responsive Web Design For Libraries, Matthew Reidsma
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