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Notes From The Editors, Derek Stadler Nov 2022

Notes From The Editors, Derek Stadler

Urban Library Journal

We are very pleased to welcome you to the first issue of the 28th volume of Urban Library Journal. Currently, the new issue features one article.


User, How Do I Know You? User-Centered Research For Library Websites, Robin Naughton Jun 2022

User, How Do I Know You? User-Centered Research For Library Websites, Robin Naughton

Publications and Research

Websites are ubiquitous. They are everywhere and everyone seems to be using them. Thus, user experience has become popular, but not everyone uses user-centered research and design principles to design websites. Libraries are beginning to use the tools of user experience, design thinking, and user-centered research to improve library websites. User-centered research places the user at the core of the research and seeks to understand the user so that the resulting solutions can better respond to the needs of users. Who are your users? How do you learn more about your users? What are your users doing? How do you …


Evaluating Sources - Laguardia Cc Library, Ian Mcdermott Mar 2022

Evaluating Sources - Laguardia Cc Library, Ian Mcdermott

Open Educational Resources

This presentation is used with students for evaluating sources. It covers the differences between popular, scholarly, and news articles. The information cycle is used to inform students about how and why topics are covered in different publications. The presentation ends with an activity where students read a snippet from a publication and are asked to guess the source.