User Experience in Libraries - Applying Ethnography and Human-Centred Design (Paperback, New edition)

Modern library services can be incredibly complex. Much more so than their forebears, modern librarians must grapple daily with questions of how best to implement innovative new services, while also maintaining and updating the old. The efforts undertaken are immense, but how best to evaluate their success? In this groundbreaking new book from Routledge, library practitioners, anthropologists, and design experts combine to advocate a new focus on User Experience (or 'UX') research methods. Through a combination of theoretical discussion and applied case studies, they argue that this ethnographic and human-centred design approach enables library professionals to gather rich evidence-based insights into what is really going on in their libraries, allowing them to look beyond what library users say they do to what they actually do. Edited by the team behind the international UX in Libraries conference, User Experience in Libraries will ignite new interest in a rapidly emerging and game-changing area of research. Clearly written and passionately argued, it is essential reading for all library professionals and students of Library and Information Science. It will also be welcomed by anthropologists and design professionals working in related fields.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Andy Priestner • Matt Borg
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	212
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4724-8472-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > Reference works > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4724-8472-X
Barcode:	9781472484727

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