From the monthly archives: April 2011
Web analytics tell us that Duke Libraries’ information about academic integrity and citing sources are some of our most popular pages. We’re proud of the work that was done years ago to create good information on avoiding plagiarism and proper citation format. Over time, though, the burden of maintaining pages with examples of citations [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve blogged a number of times about user studies and usability testing, and I’m happy to report that we’re continuing to build a culture of user-informed decision-making, especially when it comes to our online interfaces.
This spring alone, we’ve tested three different interfaces — the Libraries homepage, the new [...]
This semester I’ve participated in the Thompson Writing Program (TWP) Teaching Research with Writing Fellows program. This group of twelve faculty members from across the disciplines has been meeting monthly to talk about how to teach research skills and research writing. Departments represented on the group include the Writing Program, French, History, and Sociology. [...]
Continue Reading →While I haven’t blogged much this semester, I’ve still been thinking a lot about instruction and outreach in general and also how it works at Duke. The lion’s share of my field experience this semester has comprised working on data from the FDS (Faculty Database System) for Duke’s Open Access project. [...]
Continue Reading →I’m a visual person. I appreciate clean design and intuitive interfaces, especially when it comes to the Web. In the past couple weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Duke Libraries’ web site. I’ve attended a couple Web Interfaces Group (WIG) meetings, and I’ve been able to see firsthand the thought [...]
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