What if we do this COMPLETELY differently? Tips, tricks and strategies for bringing a UX perspective to what we do in libraries

Description

How can we make sure our activities and services are truly user-centred?

Members of the BC User Experience Interest Group (BC UXIG) will briefly share highlights and strategies from some recent projects, then lead this lively and active workshop where you'll stretch your imagination and build some UX-perspective muscles.

We’ll give most of the time to lively small-group discussions around challenging assumptions and our own “expert” perspectives to bring a more user-centred approach to what we do. Be prepared to dismantle some of your assumptions!

The BC UXIG is an informal grassroots collection of librarians that has been hosting events and workshops around UX for the past five years, including sessions on wayfinding and Google Analytics.

Author

Janis McKenzie, Tania Alekson, Joyce Wong, Michel Castagné

Conference Year

2019
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Increasing Public Library Use and Support (2010)

Description

A presentation from MLA in 2010 on how we nearly doubled Public use and support for the library.

Author

Ken Kuryliw

Author E-Mail

kkuryliw@gfrl.org

Conference Year

2016
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Library as Community Tourism site

Description

The Library as a Tourism hub for the community. By building partnerships the community library can raise their profile in the community/with funders and better serve tourists,

Author

Ken Kuryliw

Author E-Mail

kkuryliw@gfrl.org

Conference Year

2018
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How to serve your community with free legal information resources

Description

Find out how to serve your clients in your community with free legal information resources and services from Legal Services Society (Legal Aid BC)!
Legal Aid has free print publications, written in plain language, and translated into different languages.
Areas of law covered include family law, criminal law, welfare, abuse & family violence, child protection, and Aboriginal law. Legal Aid also has legal information websites that cover family law, Aboriginal law, foreclosure, and wills & personal planning.
Lastly, Legal Aid has in-person and phone services in communities around BC which provide legal information and referrals, do community training, can take legal aid applications, or connect you to legal aid.
http://legalaid.bc.ca/
http://familylaw.lss.bc.ca
http://mylawbc.com
http://aboriginal.legalaid.bc.ca

Author

Patricia Lim

Author E-Mail

patricia.lim@lss.bc.ca

Conference Year

2018
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Book Club Kits for Sharing

Description

Book Clubs exist in many communities and they are looking to libraries for their resources.  Jake Epp Library has been working on finding a way that allows us to create inexpensive book club kits and also finding ways to share them with other libraries so we can have the statistics return for our investment.  With more libraries involved, the better for all our statistics, and provides a larger pool of resources for our book clubs. 

Author

Carolyn Graham

Author E-Mail

librarian@jakeepplibrary.com

Conference Year

2018
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