{"id":4239,"date":"2017-03-06T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2017-03-06T00:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T00:00:57","slug":"march-8-acrl-webcast-essentials-of-usability-design-for-library-research-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/march-8-acrl-webcast-essentials-of-usability-design-for-library-research-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"March 8 ACRL Webcast: &#8220;Essentials of Usability Design for Library Research Guides&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(via the Association of College and Research Libraries)<\/p>\n<p>Web design, in the form of creating online research guides, has become a big part of many librarians&#8217; jobs, but we&#8217;re rarely taught how to do it well. Most of us learn the nuts and bolts of how to make guides, without learning the principles of how to make them usable&#8211;the simple techniques of visual and textual design that can help us create guides that users will understand more easily, and stick around to use. During this live interactive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/acrl\/essentials-usability-design-library-research-guides\">webcast<\/a>\u00a0offered at 1:00 p.m. Central, March 8, learn about principles of usability that can immediately improve your research guides.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning Outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How usability design affects library users&#8217; experience<\/li>\n<li>What librarians don&#8217;t know&#8211;but need to&#8211;about web usability<\/li>\n<li>Easy to use principles of usability that can immediately improve your research guides<\/li>\n<li>Free resources to share with your librarians and guide authors to better inform your institutional style plans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Complete webcast details and registration materials are available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/acrl\/essentials-usability-design-library-research-guides\">online<\/a>. Contact Margot Conahan at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mconahan@ala.org\">mconahan@ala.org<\/a>\u00a0or call (312) 280-2522 with questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via the Association of College and Research Libraries) Web design, in the form of creating online research guides, has become a big part of many librarians&#8217; jobs, but we&#8217;re rarely taught how to do it well. Most of us learn the nuts and bolts of how to make guides, without learning the principles of how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,18,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-association-of-college-and-research-libraries","category-library-associations-non-hsli","category-webinars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}