[Web4lib] New blog: Designing Better Libraries

[Drew, Bill]

This is another great effort headed up by Steven Bell of Temple
University. You must read this blog!

Designing Better Libraries http://dbl.lishost.org/blog/  

	Designing Better Libraries is a blog about design thinking and
how it applies to library settings. The goal of this blog is to provide
information, news and ideas that librarians can use to design a great
library user experience for their communities. Among the topics we'll be
covering are instructional design, innovation, technology design, and
the application of new media to design - and of course - design
thinking.

>From the Who We Are page:

Steven Bell is currently Associate University Librarian for Research and
Instructional Services at Temple University, and was previously Director
of the Library at Philadelphia University. He also maintains the blog
Kept-Up Academic Librarian and blogs for ACRLog. With John Shank he is
co-founder of the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community. More
information is found at his website.

Brian Mathews is currently an Information Services Librarian at Georgia
Tech. He is the Coordinator of Distance Learning Library Services, and
the liaison for Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science. Brian
contributes a column to the Journal of Web Librarianship on the topic of
social software, and is working on a book for ALA Editions about service
assessment and advertising for academic libraries. His primary blog is
The Ubiquitous Librarian, which chronicles insights and experiments from
the patron community.

John D. Shank has been in the higher education field since 1996. He
received his Masters from Drexel's school of Library and Information
Science. Since, entering the field he has worked at several academic
institutions in various capacities including: Montgomery County
Community College, Haverford College, and Bryn Mawr College. Currently,
he is the Instructional Design Librarian and director of the Center for
Learning Technologies for Pennsylvania State University's, Berks campus.
He has presented hundreds of faculty development workshops, lectures,
and seminars at various universities and colleges, and given
presentations at regional and national conferences. Shank has also
authored and coauthored articles and book chapters on the topic of
integrating instructional technology into library services. He is also
co-founder, along with Steven Bell, of the Blended Librarian Online
Learning Community. 

Jill Stover is the Undergraduate Services Librarian at Cabell Library,
Virginia Commonwealth University. Jill enjoys writing about library
marketing on her blog, Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book and
on the KnowThis.com Marketing Blog. She is pursuing a Certificate in
Marketing from the VCU School of Business. For more information, see
Jill's vita.

Jeff Trzeciak is the University Librarian at McMaster University in
Hamilton, Ontario. Previously he worked at Wayne State University
(Detroit) and Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio), mostly in
"systems". He maintains a blog at ulatmac.wordpress.com where he is
currently writing about the "transformation" of McMaster's libraries.

Michael J. Giarlo is a librarian technologist currently working at the
Princeton University Library as a Digital Library Applications
Programmer, and was previously a systems administrator and project
coordinator at the Rutgers University Libraries and the University of
Washington Libraries. He has published and presented on digital
preservation and archiving, human-information behavior, XML,
institutional repositories, and library technology. 



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