Follow Up to “What Does It Mean to Be User-Centered?”

If you did not get a chance to participate in the Library Issues Forum that was presented by Sarah Cron on Thursday or if you did get to attend but had some additional thoughts, now is your chance to participate in the conversation . Please visit the Staff Development Committee’s programs page to see a list of ideas generated at the meeting and to submit your own anonymous comment.

Library Issues Forum: What Does It Mean to be User Centered?

Wednesday, February 27

Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm

Place: 4th floor Conference Room

Presenter: Sarah Cron

All of us are polite and friendly to those library users.And each of us can give examples of times we went out of our way to satisfy a patron’s needs. That’s been true in libraries for decades. As libraries and universities have changed dramatically in response to changes in the environment, needs of constituencies, technological possibilities and the very nature of our users, has the definition of what constitutes user centered changed as well? Do we and/or should we have different classes of users? If we develop a unified vision statement describing services to users across all of the MU Libraries, what should it include?

Release time for staff to attend this program is available with supervisor approval.

– Staff Development Committee