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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Apologies for cross posting<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.iolug.org/call-for-proposals-spring-2016-diy-ux-innovate-create-design/">Call for Proposals</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">IOLUG Spring 2016 Conference – DIY UX: Innovate. Create. Design.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Friday, May 20<sup>th</sup>, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Indiana Wesleyan University North Campus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.iolug.org/call-for-proposals-spring-2016-diy-ux-innovate-create-design/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="241" height="119" id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D1397D.CD6E7B00" alt="IOLUG logo_old"></span></a><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The IOLUG Program Committee is inviting proposals around the theme of improving user experience. What strategies and/or tools do you use to make library resources, webpages, spaces, marketing materials, etc.
more user-friendly? What has proven successful for your organization? What problems surrounding user experience have you encountered, and what solutions have you devised? What best practices or recent research can you share about user experience?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We encourage presentations that are practical, hands-on, and include take-awayable tools, techniques, and/or strategies that librarians can implement to improve their resources and services for students, patrons,
faculty, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Analytics (perhaps on a shoestring budget?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">COUNTER/SUSHI improvements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Branding and marketing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Using data to make decisions in online and/or physical libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Human-centered design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Improving digital services and resources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Exploring/seeking feedback on user experiences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Attitudinal and behavioral user research – ethnographic studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Observation and storytelling – participant observation, usability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Small scale UX projects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Visual ethnography – photo studies, cognitive mapping, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Needs assessments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please specify in your proposal whether users will be expected to bring their own devices, or if you will need the use of a computer lab.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.iolug.org/call-for-proposals-spring-2016-diy-ux-innovate-create-design/"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Submit your proposal today!</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Deadline is Friday, March 11<sup>th</sup>!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Get ideas from previous conferences at
</span><a href="http://www.iolug.org/conferences/"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">the IOLUG site</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002A42">Sean Socha, MA, MLIS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#739ABC">Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#739ABC">614.808.2125 (office)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#739ABC">614.539.8800 (campus)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002A42">Harrison College
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#739ABC"><a href="http://www.harrison.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#739ABC;text-decoration:none">Harrison.edu</span></a>
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