Information Architecture: Designing Navigation for Library Websites (online class)

[Rory Litwin]

Information Architecture: Designing Navigation for Library Websites

Instructor: Susan Teague-Rector
Dates: March 2-27, 2015
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175

http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/046-designing-navigation.php


Website navigation is a key design device to help users search and 
browse library websites and information systems. The design of Website 
navigation can be simple or complex, flat or deep. In all cases, website 
navigation should take into account information architecture (IA) best 
practices, common user tasks in the library domain, user research, 
analytics and information seeking models.

In this four week course, you will gain insight into the art & science 
of IA, the discipline of labeling and organizing online information for 
optimal usability and findability. This course will introduce you to 
basic types of navigation, as well as classification schemes for 
organizing information. You will learn about best practices for labeling 
navigation, search engine optimiziation (SEO) and usability. Finally, 
you will gain hands-on experience developing a navigation scheme for a 
library website.

This course can be taken as one of six courses needed to earn our 
Certificate in User Experience (UX), but can be taken as a stand-alone 
course as well.

Susan Teague Rector holds a Master’s degree in Information Science from 
the University of NC-Chapel Hill. She has over 15 years of experience in 
Web technologies, with 6 years in academic libraries. In her current 
role at University of Colorado, Susan specializes in information 
architecture (IA) and UX design for University Web Services. Previously 
Susan led the IA, design and implementation of a new website for NCSU 
Libraries in 2010; and led IA, design and usability testing as Web 
Applications Manager at VCU Libraries. She has presented nationally on 
Web topics, as well as published in the Journal of Web Librarianship and 
CRLN.

Read an interview with Susan about this class:
http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/news/?p=293

Course Structure
This is an online class that is taught asynchronously, meaning that 
participants do the work on their own time as their schedules allow. The 
class does not meet together at any particular times, although the 
instructor may set up optional sychronous chat sessions. Instruction 
includes readings and assignments in one-week segments. Class 
participation is in an online forum environment.

Payment Info
You can register in this course through the first week of instruction. 
The "Register" button on the website goes to our credit card payment 
gateway, which may be used with personal or institutional credit cards. 
(Be sure to use the appropriate billing address). If your institution 
wants to pay using a purchase order, please contact us to make 
arrangements.

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