User Experience in Libraries: Applying Ethnography and Human-Centred Design
Andy Priestner (Ed.)
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Paperback. 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? Are you engaged in user research beyond traditional surveys? Editor(s): Priestner, Andy; Borg, Matt. Num Pages: 220 pages, Includes 18 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: GLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
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 ... Read 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472484727
SKU
V9781472484727
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Ref
99-1
About Andy Priestner (Ed.)
Andy Priestner manages Cambridge University's 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 ... Read more
Reviews for User Experience in Libraries: Applying Ethnography and Human-Centred Design
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 we're 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, ... Read more