Browsing by Author "Webb, Kathryn Kavanagh"
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Connect with your Users: Usability Testing and How User Experience May Actually Work for You
Webb, Kathryn Kavanagh; Rhodes, Tamara (2016-08-15)For a library, User Experience (UX) refers to studying the emotions and attitudes of its users regarding the library building, website, or services. This can be executed through usability testing, which allows you to truly ... -
Doing the Work: Crafting and Implementing Liaison Competencies
Shirkey, Cindy; Webb, Kathryn Kavanagh; Hoover, Jeanne (2020-06-02)Recently at Joyner Library, the main library for West Campus at East Carolina University, three Heads of Service completed a project to revise the library’s liaison competencies. The Head of Collection Development, the ... -
Establishing a Scholarly Communication Baseline Using Liaison Competencies to Design Scholarly Communication Boot Camp Training Sessions
Shirkey, Cindy; Hoover, Jeanne K.; Webb, Kathryn Kavanagh (2019-01) -
From Garbage to Garden: Composting Instructional Concepts to Improve Libguides
Webb, Kathryn Kavanagh (2016-05-07)LibGuides: we all have them (or something like them). If untended, broken links and out-of-date information can grow like kudzu. Most instructional librarians take a cursory glance over a guide before they teach a class, ... -
Information Literacy Concepts
Hisle, David; Webb, Kathryn Kavanagh (2017-08-29)Overview: Purpose and goals This open educational resource provides learners with an overview of major information literacy concepts identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy. Information literacy skills ... -
Making a List and Checking it Twice: Creating a Sustainable Future in User Experience
Webb, Kathryn Kavanagh; Rhodes, Tamara (2015-03-27)A ten-person task force assessed staffing responsibilities, guidelines, processes, and data gathering procedures for user experience (UX) for a library system. Multiple models for carrying out UX in a library were tested ... -
Our Experience with User Experience: Exploring Staffing Configurations to Conduct UX in an Academic Library
Webb, Kathryn Kavanagh; Rhodes, Tamara; Cook, Eleanor I.; Andresen, Christine; Russell, Roger (2015-10-13)A research project was undertaken by a university library system to develop a sustainable user experience strategy. A task force was convened to conduct a pilot project with members from both libraries in the system to ... -
A Place in the Sun: Cleaning up Online Content with the LibGuides Summer Project
Webb, Kathryn Kavanagh (2015-10-21)ECU Libraries have attempted to address issues with out-of-date content in LibGuides by conducting an annual group cleanup project during the lull over the summer. Librarians are provided with a brief weekly instruction ... -
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the Academic Library: A Methodology for Mapping Multiple Means of Representation in Library Tutorials
Webb, Kathryn Kavanagh; Hoover, Jeanne K. (2015-05)Librarians designed a biology tutorial not only to address an assignment, but also to make tutorials more accessible to students with various learning styles. The Science Librarian created the content by using aspects of ... -
Universal Design for Learning, the Library, and STEM: Common Cause, Uncommon Ground
Webb, Kathryn Kavanagh; Hoover, Jeanne K. (2013-07-01)In summer 2012, the Science Librarian and Instructional Design Librarian at Joyner Library, East Carolina University, came together to design a series of interactive tutorials to assist with questions related to an assignment ...