Presentation Type
Presentation
Conference Track
User Experience/Understanding Users
Description
This session examines the methods and results of a usability project assessing the Reed College Library’s interlibrary loan (ILL) program. Employing a service design approach (including “guerrilla”-style web usability studies, user surveys, and student worker interviews), the Reed Library User Experience (LUX) team worked closely with library users and staff to understand the various processes that make up the ILL user experience.
Though this session will focus on Reed’s ILL usability project as its example, it will be especially concerned with exploring tools and methods that could be used to conduct similar projects at other institutions.
Learning Outcomes
Attendees will leave this session with simple and low cost strategies for conducting ongoing usability studies of interlibrary loan (and other) services. They will also be introduced to the service design methodology as a viable method for understanding user needs and expectations of library services.
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Start Date
3-31-2017 11:15 AM
End Date
3-31-2017 12:00 PM
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/19098
Subjects
Interlibrary loans -- Oregon -- Evaluation, User-centered system design -- Applications to interlibrary loans, Reed College, Academic libraries -- Planning
Help the Library Receive Candy: The ILL Usability Project at Reed College
This session examines the methods and results of a usability project assessing the Reed College Library’s interlibrary loan (ILL) program. Employing a service design approach (including “guerrilla”-style web usability studies, user surveys, and student worker interviews), the Reed Library User Experience (LUX) team worked closely with library users and staff to understand the various processes that make up the ILL user experience.
Though this session will focus on Reed’s ILL usability project as its example, it will be especially concerned with exploring tools and methods that could be used to conduct similar projects at other institutions.
Comments/Notes
Room: SMSU 294