Improve Your Library's Website; No Tech Skills Required

Feb 08, 2018 02:00pm -
Feb 08, 2018 03:00pm

Event Description

Is it time to refresh your website?....Probably!

Join UX expert Aaron Schmidt in this webinar as he shares tips on assessing and improving your library's website using best practices and web conventions; no tech skills or big budgets required.  He will discuss topics including critical tasks, the homepage, writing for the web, typography, navigation, and more. After this webinar you’ll have a better understanding of how to create a user-centered website, and plenty of ideas that you can implement right away.

About the Presenter:   In the past fifteen years Aaron Schmidt has been a circulation clerk, reference librarian, and library director. Currently he is the principal of Influx Library User Experience Consulting, is a lecturer at the San Jose School of Library and Information Science, and writes a column called "The User Experience for Library Journal. Recent projects include a UX guided overhaul of the Chapel Hill Public Library, coaching 10 libraries in Florida through UX improvement projects, and an experienced focused report for Kean University . Schmidt serves on the editorial board for Weave: the Journal of Library User Experience, and he coauthored the book "Useful, Usable and Desirable," a guide to applying UX to libraries. He has presented internationally on the topic of library innovation and design.

 


Event Type:Training
Category:Programming
Early registration ends on Dec 03, 2017.
Regular registration starts on Dec 04, 2017 and ends on Feb 06, 2018.
Late registration starts on Feb 07, 2018.

 

 

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