The journey to improve digital user experience

A library website is a confluence to connect users with resources, information and knowledge. In order to provide extensive information and knowledge for their users through library websites, academic libraries tend to subscribe to various technologies such as LibGuides, integrated library systems (ILSs), discovery services, and CONTENTdm. However, it is challenging to integrate a variety of technologies into a web presence for a more dynamic and holistic experience. This poster will describe the design project for usability and steps that the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library has undertaken to improve digital user experience on its website. In addition, the poster will demonstrate hands-on examples of how the IUPUI University Library has integrated and streamlined various technologies into a unified web presence through all library web pages

Holistic Approach to User Experience: Understanding of Users

The IUPUI University Library recently initiated a project to improve the user experience on its website. In order to enhance the digital user experience, it should start from a thorough understanding of users such as who they are, what they do, how they interact with, how long they stay, where they come from, and etc. The first task called ‘Library Website Evaluation & Needs Assessment’ has been performed with various measurements from user survey to Google Analytics to better understand its users as well as to identify current issues and gaps between what the website currently is and how it should be. This poster will share some of the findings from the first task

Design of the Academic Library Website with Persuasive Technologies: Holistic User Experience

This article is written for IFLA IT Section Newsletter based on author's Internet Librarian 2014 conference. The article covers a new way of thinking about usability – persuasive technology – in order to give an engaging digital user experience to users as well as connect them with valuable library’s resources and services on the website

The Fiscal Burden of Korean Reunification: A Generational Accounting Approach

This paper uses Generational Accounting to assess the fiscal impacts of Korean reunification. Our findings suggest that early reunification will result in a large increase in the fiscal burden for most current and future generations of South Koreans. The Korean reunification's fiscal impact appears much larger than that of German reunification, due to a wider gap in productivity between the two Koreas and North Korea's much larger share of the unified country's population. The projected large-scale fiscal burden on South Korea is attributable primarily to the rapid increase in social welfare expenditure for North Korean residents, rather than to the direct reconstruction cost of the North Korean economic system after the disintegration of its old economic regime.

Koch Industries, Inc. Strategie Corporate Research Report

[Excerpt] With its 2005 purchase of paper giant Georgia-Pacific, Koch Industries became the largest privately-held corporation in North America. Originally started as an oil production and refining firm in the first half of the twentieth century, Koch now has major operations in petroleum, chemicals, energy, fibers and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, chemical technology equipment, forest and consumer products, ranching, trading, and securities and finance. The company, based in Wichita, Kansas, employs 80,000 people in sixty countries worldwide. Koch’s oil operations are run primarily through the Flint Hills Resources family of subsidiaries, which has a production capacity of about 800,000 barrels of crude oil daily. Another one of Koch’s major ventures, synthetic textiles, operates through the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, INVISTA, which produces both consumer and commodity textiles. Koch’s newest project, forest and consumer products, operates through Georgia-Pacific, which remains an independent but wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Industries