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User Experience Design & Research — Conference Roundup

User Experience Design & Research — Conference Roundup Let’s give a GIANT thank you to everyone who helped us start off January with a productive and inspiring conference on user experience design. The New England library community is wasting no time in 2016! You can look forward to a series of posts providing slides and…

Chris LaRoche: UX Fundamentals

Chris LaRoche: UX Fundamentals Chris LaRoche of MIT and UXPA Boston took on the important role of introducing #neasistUX attendees to the basics of user experience fundamentals. This info was so valuable that I immediately resolved to attend more UXPA Boston events — meetups, Saturday workshops, and their annual conference in May. Check out Chris’s…

Anderson & English: Usability of Books in Browsers

Anderson & English: Usability of Books in Browsers Steven Anderson and Eben English of the Boston Public Library were facing a good problem. Thousands of new book objects being ingested into their collection, and they needed a browser-based, platform-agnostic interface to allow users to read content online. So, they found four open source tools and…

CfP Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA)

CfP Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA) Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA): 13-17 June 2016, Zadar, Croatia Authors are invited to submit paper abstracts (up to 1500 words); poster, panel, demonstration, workshop, dissertation (PhD forum) and student showcase abstracts (up to 750 words) to the conference Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA) which will…

UX & You: User Experience Design & Research

UX & You: User Experience Design & Research The New England Chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology, together with the Simmons College Student Chapter, invite you to join us at our 2016 Winter Event: UX & You: User Experience Design & Research Whether you are providing a service for free or for…

3 PhD scholarships for 2016

3 PhD scholarships for 2016 The Connected Intelligence Centre at the University of Technology Sydney is currently advertising 3 PhD scholarships for 2016 on the following topics/themes: * Learning Analytics, Agency and Algorithmic Accountability * Learning Analytics for Student Writing Practices * Learning Analytics Across Digital and Physical Spaces http://utscic.edu.au/research/phd CIC?s mission is to invent,…

EPSRC PhD scholarships within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester

EPSRC PhD scholarships within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester Expressions of interest are sought from UK/EU students for EPSRC PhD scholarships within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester; tenable within the University’s Centre for Development Informatics. ICT4D topics within priority areas of relevance could include: Digital enterprises and business…

Two funded PhDs at the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s

Two funded PhDs at the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s Two Scholarships at the PhD level (starting September 2016) are available in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University to work on a project, funded through a SSHRC Partnership Grant on “Big Data Surveillance” under the supervision of David Lyon and/or David Murakami Wood. The…

CfP Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA), 13-17 June 2016, Zadar, Croatia

CfP Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA), 13-17 June 2016, Zadar, Croatia Authors are invited to submit paper abstracts (up to 1500 words); poster, panel, demonstration, workshop, dissertation (PhD forum) and student showcase abstracts (up to 750 words) to the conference Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA) which will be held at the University of…

Collection Development Workshop

Collection Development Workshop Our next meetup will be a collection development workshop led by Michael Leach, head of collection development at Harvard’s Cabot Science Library. Seating is limited for this one, so head over to our Meetup page to reserve your spot!