Subject: ALCTS webinar: Mobilizing the Library: Shifting the focus of
the academic library to a student-centered technology perspective
From: ALCTS-CE Announce <alcts.ce.announce_at_gmail.com>
Date: 5/1/2013 7:56 AM
*Apologies in advance for multiple postings.*
ALCTS webinar: Mobilizing the Library: Shifting the focus of the
academic library to a student-centered technology perspective
Date: May 15, 2013
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.
Creating positive user experiences is central to the success of any
online environment. We know that our virtual spaces should provide
seamless streamlined access to resources and services. Unfortunately the
reverse is often true: users are thrust into a bewildering world of
OPACS, databases, discovery tools, link resolvers, research guides, chat
services, and web content. This array of disparate user spaces, multiple
authentication schemes, confusing navigation, and frustrating mobile
experiences alienates and distances users unfamiliar with the diverse
tools librarians take for granted.
Developing user-focused web environments, accessible from all devices,
is crucial to the sustained relevance of the academic library to the
student experience. Using MacEwan University Library's mobile app, and
strategy for an integrated web environment as a starting point, this
session will explore approaches for developing positive online user
experiences.
Learning outcomes:
-Understand the challenges students face navigating academic library web
environments
-Consider the impacts of poor online user experience
-Explore the benefits of student-centered web strategies
-Articulate the growing primacy of mobile technologies
-Begin discussions with their own institutions to shift focus to
student-centered design
Who should attend?
Presenters: Sonya Betz is the Web and User Experience Librarian at
MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. After several years embedded at
the front lines of librarianship as a liaison librarian for MacEwan’s
English department, she’s now moved the side-of-her desk “web stuff” to
the forefront and is eagerly seeking out new opportunities to improve
the online experience for MacEwan’s students and faculty. Over the past
few years she’s led several teams though redesigns, implementations, and
very long bike rides.
Robert Zylstra is the Music and Performing Arts Librarian at MacEwan
University in Edmonton, Alberta. His background as a systems librarian
and his current work in reference and instruction inspire him in his
quest to bridge the gap between core library technologies and front line
library service.
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Registration Fees: $39 ALCTS Member; $49 Non-member; $39 International;
$99 Group (a group of people that will watch it together).
For additional information and access to registration links, please go
to the following website:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/051513
ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the
recording shortly following the live event.
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration_at_ala.org. For all other
questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese,
ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or alctsce_at_ala.org.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
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