Librarians can enhance adult reading experiences through knowledge, engagement, and building relationships with readers. They are experts in gathering knowledge about books and readers which allows them to make insightful recommendations that connect readers to books they will enjoy. Real interaction at libraries offers engagement that online options lack. Developing a community of readers and engaging with current events also helps enhance reading experiences.
How Publishing is Attacking the Diversity Problem: A Data-Driven Approach - A...BookNet Canada
In this session, Ashleigh Gardner, Deputy General Manager, Wattpad Studios, Publishing, will explore how new technologies — such as machine learning — are creating new opportunities to discover and publish marginalized voices. Looking at Wattpad’s own Story DNA machine learning technology, this session will highlight the opportunities for publishers to diversify their slates while uncovering exciting new writers. The session will examine real-life case studies from Wattpad, showcasing recently-discovered voices that the company has identified among the millions on the platform.
March 20, 2019
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User satisfaction is a key aspect to a successful business application. What makes a good user experience is subjective, but here we the essentials, mixing theory, common practices and code samples to help you put the pieces together in your own applications. Whether you develop for Notes classic, Domino, XPages or other platforms, this presentation has something you can use right away.
Presentation about web user experience for Interactive Design class. An old presentation of mine updated a little to let me show some intro material for the class so we could talk.
The story of Paul Otlet's Mundaneum: an expansive bibliographic project that demonstrates the difficulties of building an intellectual ideal in the face of real-world politics.
I was a recently asked to give a talk about how animations are able to enhance the user experience. In return, I broke it down into four main talking points: Behavior, Visual Feedback, Transitions, and Affordance.
Additionally, this presentation contains a few slides with what you can say are closed captions because I felt they were needed in order to help explain a few items.
How Publishing is Attacking the Diversity Problem: A Data-Driven Approach - A...BookNet Canada
In this session, Ashleigh Gardner, Deputy General Manager, Wattpad Studios, Publishing, will explore how new technologies — such as machine learning — are creating new opportunities to discover and publish marginalized voices. Looking at Wattpad’s own Story DNA machine learning technology, this session will highlight the opportunities for publishers to diversify their slates while uncovering exciting new writers. The session will examine real-life case studies from Wattpad, showcasing recently-discovered voices that the company has identified among the millions on the platform.
March 20, 2019
techforum.booknetcanada.ca
#TechForum
User satisfaction is a key aspect to a successful business application. What makes a good user experience is subjective, but here we the essentials, mixing theory, common practices and code samples to help you put the pieces together in your own applications. Whether you develop for Notes classic, Domino, XPages or other platforms, this presentation has something you can use right away.
Presentation about web user experience for Interactive Design class. An old presentation of mine updated a little to let me show some intro material for the class so we could talk.
The story of Paul Otlet's Mundaneum: an expansive bibliographic project that demonstrates the difficulties of building an intellectual ideal in the face of real-world politics.
I was a recently asked to give a talk about how animations are able to enhance the user experience. In return, I broke it down into four main talking points: Behavior, Visual Feedback, Transitions, and Affordance.
Additionally, this presentation contains a few slides with what you can say are closed captions because I felt they were needed in order to help explain a few items.
Kate McGuinn and Alison Sharman, University of Huddersfield
Broaden my Bookshelf (BMB) is an initiative to increase the range of authors represented in the University of Huddersfield Library. The main focus is on books written by marginalised people (e.g. from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background and/or who identify as LGBT+). It was launched in October 2018 and is delivered in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield Students Union (UHSU). It grew out of our desire to work with UHSU on improving the quality and breadth of reading lists, along with a growing awareness of issues raised by the Why is my curriculum White? Campaign.
BMB also aims to encourage and assist lecturers to diversify their reading lists. This led to the creation of a Reading List Toolkit in 2020. The Toolkit provides a rationale for decolonising and diversifying reading lists with testimonies from minoritized students. It also includes a checklist for lecturers to self-assess their lists, also access to the BMB book collection and relevant journal collections as well as less traditional resources, including video playlists and podcasts.
Throughout the period since 2018 the BMB team has worked to raise awareness of the campaign by organising events such as panel debates and an author event with the author and photographer Johny Pitts. We have also taken BMB out to the schools of the university with “roadshow” events and gathered feedback from students about their experiences of the curriculum from a diversity perspective. We have also promoted BMB each new academic year using a variety of print and social media, including videos created by the UHSU Education and Equalities Officers. Our latest promotional event was a Human Library which we ran at the university Teaching and Learning Conference on 28th June 2023.
This presentation was delivered at Reimagining Higher Education: journeys of decolonising at De Montfort University, Leicester, on Wednesday 8th November 2023.
Interested in providing betters Readers' Advisory service to your teen patrons? Check this presentation for information on how books make our teen patrons "feel" and matching those feelings to the right book.
A new not-for-profit organisation founded in 2014 (led by Miranda McKearney formerly of The Reading Agency)
Empathy Lab’s vision Read stories Build empathy Make a better world
Vibal presentation social media for the bookish for slideshareGege Sugue
Our book community, Flips Flipping Pages (FFP), was invited to share our experiences in online networking for the bookish at the first Philippine Digital Publishing Conference, The Future of the Book, held at the UP-Ayala Technohub.
Representing book readers and FFP, I shared the FFP story and wrapped up the presentation with some notes about how publishers and authors can build relationships with the readers.
This catalog of books by Thomas Jerome Baker brings together over 40 books on Amazon, Kindle, and CreateSpace. Take your time to browse, there is something here for everyone. After you read, share your reading experience by writing a review. I trust your reading will be pleasant and enjoyable...
inclusion and diversity in critical UX researchSimon Bowie
Slides for a keynote / workshop presented by Karine Larose and Simon Bowie at CLAUD's Summer Study Day at the University of Bath on 2019-07-08.
During summer 2016, Karine and Simon ran user experience research into the information-seeking behaviour of undergraduate and postgraduate students at Imperial College London. Looking critically at this research, we realised what we were doing wrong and got an insight into the limitations of our approach to inclusion and diversity in UX research in libraries. In this session, we want to talk about our methodology for UX research, run through some short activities to help you reflect on disability, and think about best practices for including students with disabilities in the library experience.
Using Free and Open Source Software to open dataSimon Bowie
FOSS is becoming more widely used in libraries of all kinds. Open-source discovery layers and open-source LMSs can help libraries open up metadata and gain more control over library systems.
Kate McGuinn and Alison Sharman, University of Huddersfield
Broaden my Bookshelf (BMB) is an initiative to increase the range of authors represented in the University of Huddersfield Library. The main focus is on books written by marginalised people (e.g. from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background and/or who identify as LGBT+). It was launched in October 2018 and is delivered in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield Students Union (UHSU). It grew out of our desire to work with UHSU on improving the quality and breadth of reading lists, along with a growing awareness of issues raised by the Why is my curriculum White? Campaign.
BMB also aims to encourage and assist lecturers to diversify their reading lists. This led to the creation of a Reading List Toolkit in 2020. The Toolkit provides a rationale for decolonising and diversifying reading lists with testimonies from minoritized students. It also includes a checklist for lecturers to self-assess their lists, also access to the BMB book collection and relevant journal collections as well as less traditional resources, including video playlists and podcasts.
Throughout the period since 2018 the BMB team has worked to raise awareness of the campaign by organising events such as panel debates and an author event with the author and photographer Johny Pitts. We have also taken BMB out to the schools of the university with “roadshow” events and gathered feedback from students about their experiences of the curriculum from a diversity perspective. We have also promoted BMB each new academic year using a variety of print and social media, including videos created by the UHSU Education and Equalities Officers. Our latest promotional event was a Human Library which we ran at the university Teaching and Learning Conference on 28th June 2023.
This presentation was delivered at Reimagining Higher Education: journeys of decolonising at De Montfort University, Leicester, on Wednesday 8th November 2023.
Interested in providing betters Readers' Advisory service to your teen patrons? Check this presentation for information on how books make our teen patrons "feel" and matching those feelings to the right book.
A new not-for-profit organisation founded in 2014 (led by Miranda McKearney formerly of The Reading Agency)
Empathy Lab’s vision Read stories Build empathy Make a better world
Vibal presentation social media for the bookish for slideshareGege Sugue
Our book community, Flips Flipping Pages (FFP), was invited to share our experiences in online networking for the bookish at the first Philippine Digital Publishing Conference, The Future of the Book, held at the UP-Ayala Technohub.
Representing book readers and FFP, I shared the FFP story and wrapped up the presentation with some notes about how publishers and authors can build relationships with the readers.
This catalog of books by Thomas Jerome Baker brings together over 40 books on Amazon, Kindle, and CreateSpace. Take your time to browse, there is something here for everyone. After you read, share your reading experience by writing a review. I trust your reading will be pleasant and enjoyable...
inclusion and diversity in critical UX researchSimon Bowie
Slides for a keynote / workshop presented by Karine Larose and Simon Bowie at CLAUD's Summer Study Day at the University of Bath on 2019-07-08.
During summer 2016, Karine and Simon ran user experience research into the information-seeking behaviour of undergraduate and postgraduate students at Imperial College London. Looking critically at this research, we realised what we were doing wrong and got an insight into the limitations of our approach to inclusion and diversity in UX research in libraries. In this session, we want to talk about our methodology for UX research, run through some short activities to help you reflect on disability, and think about best practices for including students with disabilities in the library experience.
Using Free and Open Source Software to open dataSimon Bowie
FOSS is becoming more widely used in libraries of all kinds. Open-source discovery layers and open-source LMSs can help libraries open up metadata and gain more control over library systems.
Designing library systems for library usersSimon Bowie
Presented to UCL DIS students on 9th March 2015 and City University London LIS students on 16th March 2015.
The design of library systems has traditionally been out of the control of library staff and in the hands of a few big library software vendors. But new developments with open-source library software and the increasingly techie skill-sets of library staff make it possible to conduct user experience (UX) research in libraries and to design systems that precisely meet the needs of our users. In this presentation, Simon discusses library systems design and UX in libraries with particular reference to the project to implement an open-source library catalogue interface at SOAS Library.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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Enhancing Reading Presentation
1. Ways of enhancing adult reading experiences Knowledge & Engagement and The Reading Relationship
2. Knowledge Library staff are intelligent men and women, usually with a passion for library work and helping library users. Librarians are experts at gathering knowledge and this knowledge can be used to the benefit of readers. Engagement This refers to meaningful interaction. Real interaction is something that bookshops and websites do not offer but that libraries can.
3. Books Reader Ranganathan’s Five Laws The Reading Relationship
4. The Books A good knowledge of books and a willingness to dive into the realm of books is essential for anyone who wants to help others’ reading
5. “ Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.” - E. M. Forster, Howards End Freemasonry Cryptography
8. The Reader Knowledge of and engagement with readers is key to enhancing their reading experience. “ So when are you bringing all the good stuff. Shakespeare? Tolstoy? The poshknobs have all the best stuff. Why can’t we try it?” – A reader in Davis (2008).
9. A community of readers “ We have searched for wayward brothers and sisters, evaded wolves, lost friends and learned how to make new ones. We have laughed, cried, shaken with fright, and shivered with delight. And best of all, we did it together. Along the way we discovered something about the universality of human experience – that we, too, have many of the hopes and fears of the people we read about.” – Trelease (1982).
10. Readers in the world Readers inhabit larger society and this impacts their reading experiences every day: what they read; how they read; why they read; where they read; where they get books from
11. The End of the Party – Andrew Rawnsley Servants of the People – Andrew Rawnsley The Ghost – Robert Harris The Blair Years – Alastair Campbell Engaging with current events
12. Enhancing reading through knowledge and engagement The Books Appreciation of connectedness Insightful recommendations Intelligent and provocative displays The Reader Listening to their needs Developing a community Engaging with current events
[Welcome] This presentation will discuss how a public library can enhance adult reading experience through knowledge of and engagement with both sides of the reading relationship.
How can libraries enhance reading in ways that bookshops and the Internet cannot? They can do so through demonstrating two qualities: knowledge and engagement. Knowledge - Library staff are intelligent men and women, usually with a passion for library work and helping library users. Librarians are experts at gathering knowledge and this knowledge can be used to the benefit of readers. Engagement - This refers to meaningful interaction and can be applied to three distinct groups which will be shown in the next slide. Real interaction is something that bookshops and websites do not offer but that libraries can. Knowledge and engagement are the Unique Selling Points of libraries. This presentation will discuss how to apply these qualities to the enhancement of adult reading.
Shiyali Ranganathan was a philosopher and librarian. His biggest contribution to libraries is his Five Laws of Library Science. These laws can be seen to represent the two sides of the reading relationship: sides that library staff can demonstrate knowledge of and engagement with. [Click through animation] The first three of Ranganathan’s laws refer to the books. The last three refer to the reader. The last law refers to the library as an organism within an ecosystem. That ecosystem is the world beyond the library doors: a larger society made up of readers. No library is an island.
This is the most important group. A good knowledge of books and a willingness to dive into the realm of books is essential for anyone who wants to help others’ reading. So how can librarians use their knowledge of books and their engagement with books to enhance the reading experience of library users?
“ Only connect”. The motto of E. M. Forster’s novel Howards End: a simple declaration that everything can be connected; that everything is tied to everything else. Another law of library science could be ‘Every book is connected’. Knowledge of books begins with a knowledge of the myriad interconnections between books. Threads of genre, themes, tropes, characters, publishers, authors, metaphors, settings, and moods tie all books together in a web of knowledge. Take for example Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol , a recent bestseller. [Click through animation. Explain connections as they come up] Knowledge of the connectedness of all books can serve to enhance reading in a number of ways.
Amazon chooses to enhance its customers’ reading by recommending connected titles. Amazon’s software lets readers follow the trail of breadcrumbs left by other readers as they make their way through the labyrinthine passages of literature. Librarians can fulfil this role in a more interpersonal way: chatting to readers, not being afraid to make suggestions, acting as guides through the labyrinth. For this, knowledge of the books goes hand in hand with knowledge of the reader. Ross (2001) investigates the psychology behind why people choose books: it is important for librarians to understand this reasoning to help enhance reading by navigating readers along the right course. (Can be linked to reader engagement further in presentation)
There’s nothing worse than a book display without any knowledge put into it: books grouped by the colour of their covers or by the presence of a keyword in their title. Such displays mean that readers end up literally judging a book by its cover. Books should be displayed intelligently based on connectedness. Demonstrate knowledge in the presentation of the books. Van Riel et al. (2008) recommend displaying popular books with the covers outwards to catch the eye and break up the monotony of library shelving. It can also be a good idea to set up presentation tables like in modern bookshops.
The books are one component of the reading relationship: the reader is the other. Knowledge of and engagement with readers is key to enhancing what is after all THEIR reading experience. Part of this is understanding reader psychology as mentioned previously; part of it is engaging with the reader to gain knowledge of their needs. Sometimes readers know how to enhance their reading better than librarians do. Davis (2008) represents a good example of engaging with a reading group. With her group of uneducated readers, Davis listened to them, understood their needs, and respected their intelligence. [Display quote] Engage with the reader to learn what they want and then use knowledge of the books to facilitate and enhance that. If a reader wants to read Tennyson, move heaven and earth to get them some Tennyson and then be ready with a list of other Victorian Romantic poets.
Reading is often a solitary activity. Librarians can enhance reading experiences by making it a community activity. [Display quote] Engage with people to bring them together. Chat to people. If you know of two people who like the same books, get them chatting. Hold reading events: coffee mornings, reading groups, poetry readings, discussion. Engagement with groups of people enhances the reading experience of every individual in the group and makes the library the centre of a reading community.
[The image on this slide would point to whichever library was interviewing me] Libraries and their users don’t exist in isolation. Readers inhabit larger society and this impacts their reading experiences every day. Librarians can use knowledge of current events to enhance users’ reading: they can engage with the world to ensure that reading isn’t a musty anachronism but that it is current and important.
Take the recent allegations that Gordon Brown bullied Downing Street staff. The story came out of a book – Andrew Rawnsley’s The End of the Party. A reader engaged with current affairs will have their reading experience informed by this story. A librarian can facilitate this by using their knowledge to prepare some engaged and current titles. [Click through titles] Political intrigue novels, political memoirs, political non-fiction: any of these can cater to political scandal. A librarian simply needs to engage with the wider world and then use their knowledge of the books to recommend and display them.
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