Computers in Libraries, Day 1

First day here at Computers in Libraries has come and gone. There was a web design and development track, which was nice. Some useful information certainly, but most of it seemed tailored towards Librarians who maintain web sites, rather than for web professionals working in libraries.

The best presentations were by David King and Karen Coombs.

David gave a session on user experience design, drawing heavily on the work of Jesse James Garrett and several marketing concepts. David gave a great overview of current ideas in designing user experience and also made a nice case for how (and why) these things should be applied in libraries.

This slant to his presentation got me thinking...

The trend now (probably due to perceived necessity) is for those of us working in libraries to continually make the case for the uniqueness and importance of libraries. The downside of this is that we begin to believe that libraries are so unique that best practices and modern trends in related fields (like web design, marketing, etc.) somehow don't apply. I already heard a lot of, "So how can that work for a library?"

Posted by deryck on March 23, 2006

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