Library Instruction in the Digital Age |
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| Authors: | Cheryl LaGuardia |
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| Institution: | Harvard University , Cambridge , MA , USA |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT Updating her 2003 article in Reference Services Review (“The Future of Reference: Get Real!” Reference Services Review 3(1), 2003, 39–42, DOI: 10.1108/00907320310460898), the author emphasizes the need to get a good sense of what one's users’ priorities are, concentrating efforts on successful tools researchers will actually use; responding to changes that have taken place in research and scholarship; devising instruction for use in actual environments, spaces, and timeframes; focusing on local user needs; and working to influence user-centered design of library online systems. This article originally published in Journal of Library Administration, Vol. 51, Issue 3, pages 301–308, 2011. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2011.556948. |
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| Keywords: | bibliographic instruction information systems design user-centered design user focus |
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