CIC talk

Slide 1: Interface = Instruction Ellysa S tern Cahoy Penn S tate University Libraries CIC Libraries Conference March 19, 2007

Slide 2: Finding Time

Slide 3: I wish I had known that the solution for needing to teach our users how to search our catalog was to create a system that didn't need to be taught. Tennant, Roy. What I Wish I Had Known. Library Journal. November 15, 2005. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6282632.html

Slide 4: Google recognizes that it is an application and immediately provides you with the user interface while libraries are still stuck in the mind set of web 'pages’. --Bill Moody on Web4Lib

Slide 6: Usability Expert: Ok, so this is the search form... Librarian(s): S o... is this the simple search form or the advanced search? Usability Expert: This is the search form. S inger, Ross. Polishing the Turd: The Danger of Redesigning the OPAC. May 9, 2005. http:/ dilettantes.blogspot.com/ / 2005/ polishing-turd-dangers-of-redesigning.html 05/

Slide 8: http://www.lib.umn.edu/undergrad/

Slide 9: http://www.maryville.edu/library/Default.asp

Slide 10: http://www.lib.byu.edu/

Slide 12: http://www.ksulib.org/ac/

Slide 13: http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl

Slide 14: “ Librarians need to use their expertise to make the library's online presence approach the simplicity and power of the Internet.” Wilder, S tanley. “Information Literacy Makes all the Wrong Assumptions.” T Chronicle Review, January 7, 2005. he http:/ www.bright.net/ / ~dlackey/WrongA ssumptions.htm

Slide 15: How Do We Get There? Involve students in interface planning Give a small, informed group the freedom to dream and develop

Slide 18: R e fe re nc e s Dempsey, L orcan. "The User interface that Isn't." M ay 2005.  http:/ orweblog.oclc.org/ / archives/ 000667.html K lein, L eo Robert. The Expert User Is Dead.  Library Journal. October 15, 2003.  http:/ www.libraryjournal.com/ / index.asp? layout=article& articleid=CA 323336 L ippincott, Joan. Net Generation Students and Libraries. Coalition for Networked Information, 2006.  http:/ www.educause.edu/ / NetGenerationS tudentsandL ibraries/ 6067 L ippincott, S arah & M artha K yrillidow. How ARL University Communities Access Information:  Highlights from LibQUAL+. B imonthly Report 236, October 2004. M iller, Todd. In Defense of Stupid Users. Library Journal. M arch 15, 2005.   http:/ libraryjournal.com/ / article/ 509607.html CA OCL C. How Academic Librarians Can Influence Students’ Web-Based Information Choices. (OCLC  White Paper on the Information Habits of Students.) June 2002. http:/ www.mnstate.edu/ / schwartz/ informationhabits.pdf S alaway, Gail, et al. The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2006.  http:/ www.educause.edu/ ibraryDetailPage/ / L 666? ID=ERS 0607 Tennant, Roy. What I Wish I Had Known. Library Journal. November 15, 2005.  http:/ www.libraryjournal.com/ / article/ 6282632.html CA Wilder, S tanley. “Information Literacy Makes all the Wrong Assumptions.” T Chronicle Review, he  January 7, 2005. http:/ www.bright.net/ / ~dlackey/WrongA ssumptions.htm

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