Our panel shares good practices and strategies from small to medium sized public libraries as well as academic libraries. With David Lee King, Digital Services Director, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library and Publisher, davidleeking.com Jessamyn C West, Librarian & Technologist, Open Library http://librarian.net Dr. Frank Cervone, Director of Information Technology, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago Lecturer, San Jose State University

1. XBest Practices
& Strategies
Jessamyn West
David Lee King
Dr. Frank Cervone

2. XOpening Thoughts

3. Jessamyn’s
Thoughts

4. universal design

5. 5 - 7 steps
• Equitable use
• Flexibility in use
• Simple and intuitive
• Perceptible information
• Tolerance for error
(also low physical effort & "size
and space for use")

7. mobile at minimum

8. mobile
• Way to effectively reach
digitally divided users
• "Responsive design"
• Better Google rankings
• Helps make tough choices
about most important content
🎉

9. incent & encourage

10. be careful what you* ask for
• "Strong" passwords
• "Security" questions
• Title
• Gender
*you AND your vendors

11. Frank’s Thoughts

12. Design patterns

14. Simple
Clear
Consistent

16. Grids

18. Color psychology

20. Who are you really
talking to?

22. Library UX Hell

28. David’s Thoughts

29. Make People Click

30. content

31. General Reference Center:
A general interest database that
integrates a variety of sources in one
easy-to-use interface. Use General
Reference Center to find articles
from magazines, reference books,
and newspapers, many with full-text
and images.

32. General Reference Center:
Find articles from magazines,
newspapers, and reference books
covering current events, popular
culture, the arts and sciences,
sports, hobbies, and more.

33. Find it!
Books, magazines,
newspapers. Topics you're
interested in, at your fingertips!

34. titles!
flic.kr/p/o6B7TP

36. … and editing.

37. conversation

38. friendly,
conversational

41. directions

43. XDiscussion Time

44. XTo Do Lists

45. flic.kr/p/81RqH3
bigger boxes
fewer words

46. flic.kr/p/81RqH3
Type like
you Talk

47. show time
passing

48. give the
user
a job

49. make it
this easy
flic.kr/p/2AM4w

50. flic.kr/p/pk3p7y

51. XThanks!