{"id":68,"date":"2008-02-18T11:28:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-02-18T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:28:18","slug":"library-issues-forum-what-does-it-mean-to-be-user-centered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2008\/02\/18\/library-issues-forum-what-does-it-mean-to-be-user-centered\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Issues Forum: What Does It Mean to be User Centered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, February 27<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Place: 4th floor Conference Room<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Presenter: Sarah Cron<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\">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\u2019s needs.<span>  <\/span>That\u2019s been true in libraries for decades.<span>  <\/span>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?<span>  <\/span>Do we and\/or should we have different classes of users?<span>  <\/span>If we develop a unified vision statement describing services to users across all of the MU Libraries,<span>  <\/span>what should it include?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\">Release time for staff to attend this program is available with supervisor approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211; Staff Development Committee<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2008\/02\/18\/library-issues-forum-what-does-it-mean-to-be-user-centered\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Library Issues Forum: What Does It Mean to be User Centered?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[218,248],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff-development-committee","tag-sarah-cron","tag-user-centered"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 09:30:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}