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Category Archives: usability
Metadata display in Library Search
Background Library Search, Temple University Libraries’ discovery layer, recently underwent a significant updates to the user interface. In Fall 2023, the Discovery Oversight Group, a group responsible for providing guidance and setting priorities for the development of Library Search, began … Continue reading
Ramping Up Library Tutorials
Temple Libraries has a long history of providing high quality information literacy instruction for courses at Temple. As we continue to learn more and adapt our teaching methods, our Learning and Student Success unit recognized a need to grow our … Continue reading
Discovering sources in Library Search: key takeaways from remote user interviews with history students
As a followup to last year’s Browse Prototyping project, Rebecca Lloyd and I conducted remote user interviews with upper level history students in December 2020, just as the fall semester was wrapping up. Using a semi-structured interview technique, we talked … Continue reading
Posted in instruction and student learning, qualitative research, technology use, uncategorized, usability, user experience
Tagged discovery, undergraduate, user experience, user studies
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Supporting Online Learning and Research: Assessing our Virtual Reference Activities
Today’s post is contributed by Olivia Given Castello, Tom Ipri, Kristina De Voe and Jackie Sipes. Thank you! The sudden move to all-online learning at Temple University presented a unique challenge to the Libraries and provided a great opportunity to … Continue reading
When a Marker is More than a Marker
User experience is all around us. In libraries, we often think the assessment of user experience relates to web interfaces, or building way finding and navigation. We might, ask, “Is the language that we use on the website clear to … Continue reading
Posted in library spaces, usability, user experience
Tagged space design, user experience
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Cookies, User Research, and an Iterative Design Process
In late February, the Library Website Redesign project turned its focus to incorporating user research into the design process. With the help and support of Cynthia Schwarz, Nancy Turner, David Lacy, the UX group, and others, Rachel Cox and I … Continue reading
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Tagged usability, user studies, website
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Assessment Community of Practice: User Experience
Last week’s Community of Practice was my first opportunity to talk with colleagues from across the organization about user experience (or UX) in libraries. I presented an overview of some principles of UX and a brief update on two current … Continue reading
Learning about Our Users: The Website Use Survey
Cynthia Schwarz, project manager for the Libraries’ Web Environment Redesign Project, contributed this post. She reports on the results and next steps of the team’s user survey conducted last month, providing us with a healthy return of 460 user responses. … Continue reading
Communities of Practice: People, Spaces, Services
Last Wednesday 20+ library staff members came together to talk and learn about usability testing conducted here at Temple University Libraries. This discussion, part of our Assessment Community of Practice, covered a range of topics, from how usability testing is … Continue reading
LibGuides Usability Testing
Temple Libraries has over 500 LibGuides, or Research Guides. The purpose of the guides is to help library users with some aspect of the research process. Most guides fall into one of three categories – those that offer links or … Continue reading
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