Usability testing for library web sites: a hands-on guide

Sebagaimana diketahui bahwa meningkatnya penggunaan website di perpustakaan untuk memberikan pelayanan perpustakaan. Penting sekali agar website perpustakaan dapat menyenangkan, mudah ditelusur oleh pengguna perpustakaan. Buku ini akam membantu pustakawan pemula dan pustakawan ahli untuk menentukan cara yang sistematis agar website mereka dapat berguna untuk pemakainya

The Five Labours of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism Work by Racialized Academic Librarians

This study unpacks the experiences of academic librarians that identify as racialized to better understand the weight of equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism work. The themes that emerged from the interviews with the librarians were emotional labour, interpretive labour, identity labour, racialized labour, and aspirational labour. These forms of labour are often oversimplified, unacknowledged, or unquantifiable. For one line on a curriculum vitae, committee, advisory, or working group related equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism work may not be compensated or financially supported to reflect the intensity and expertise needed for the work. It is important to unpack the complexity of the work to demonstrate how to better support racialized librarians that engage with this work that contributes to changes in the academic library and profession

The Five Labours of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism Work by Racialized Academic Librarians

This study unpacks the experiences of academic librarians that identify as racialized to better understand the weight of equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism work. The themes that emerged from the interviews with the librarians were emotional labour, interpretive labour, identity labour, racialized labour, and aspirational labour. These forms of labour are often oversimplified, unacknowledged, or unquantifiable. For one line on a curriculum vitae, committee, advisory, or working group related equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism work may not be compensated or financially supported to reflect the intensity and expertise needed for the work. It is important to unpack the complexity of the work to demonstrate how to better support racialized librarians that engage with this work that contributes to changes in the academic library and profession

Side by Side: What a Usability Study Told Us about a Web Site Redesign

Library Web sites must compete against easy-to-use sites, such as Google Scholar, Google Books, and Wikipedia, for students' time and attention. Library Web sites must therefore be designed with aesthetics and user perceptions at the forefront. The Music and Performing Arts Library at Urbana-Champaign's Web site was overcrowded and in much need of a user-focused redesign. This article presents a usability study that compared participants' use of the old site versus the new site to determine if performance improved on the redesigned site. Participants were asked to complete library-related tasks on both the old Web site and on the redesigned Web site to determine if they could both complete more tasks and complete tasks more quickly on the new site. Participants showed a marked improvement on the new site, and their think-out-loud; responses to the tasks helped further improve site design and wording. Participants were also surveyed about their perceptions of ease of use and navigation on the old and new sites, and in general, the new site was preferred by participants and seen as a great improvement. Future studies will aim to further involve students and faculty in addressing terminology and site organization.published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe