James E. Walker Library Professional Publications and Presentations

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    Inclusive Design: A Method and Craft of Transforming Digital Humanities with User Experience
    (ACRL, 2024) Miller, A
    Project design in user experience and project design in digital humanities (DH) share many of the same motivating questions. When setting up surveys as part of your research, do you consider the language or purpose of the question? Are there leading questions? Have you considered the background or demographics of your audience? When setting up tasks for user-testing a research project, do you strategize how to recruit users with a diverse approach or just try to get as many as possible? These are just a few of the questions user experience (UX) professionals would consider when creating a digital project. These questions should also be asked by the creators of DH projects. This chapter will provide an introduction to the field of UX, an overview of the user-centered design (UCD) phases and applications in UX, an over-view of UX research and design phases, the importance of applying UX to DH, and will culminate in an inclusive design checklist that can help root the UX process in digital projects, regardless of the role of the subject specialist or reader of this book. This chapter is neither comprehensive nor definitive but is intended to be helpful to those who are new to UX and inclusive design in digital projects.
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    Follow the Data, Find the Story: Discovery of Multidirectional Stories in the Digital Archive
    (Archive Journal, 2017) Miller, A
    What is data? How can it tell a story? Data can be represented through numbers, text, and images, and perhaps offer enough detail on its own to derive a singular story of that data. But when that data is collectively managed and preserved by a library’s publishing program, multiple collections of data sets become searchable in the digital library and on the web. This enables a way to unfold stories that may not have been explored without the interconnections among the library’s digital collections or community archives.
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    Visualization Praxis: Data Visualizations with an Interdisciplinary Advantage
    (The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 2017) Miller, A.
    Digital scholarship is changing the way we communicate, access, connect, learn, and create information. Increasingly, scholars, archivists, journalists, authors, scientists, humanists, and others want to include specific technologies such as data visualizations and interactive models to communicate their work. This is being done through class assignments, project websites, code on Github, newsfeeds, social media, and other digital channels, using visualization tools such as Google Fusion Tables, StoryMaps, Viewshare, Tableau Public, and D3, among others. These technologies have changed what we can do with data. Among scholars, they are catalyzing discussions on the importance of hyperlinking and interoperability and what it means for data to be linkable, mined, curated, analyzed, visualized and so forth. Just a few years ago, we could not absorb and disseminate knowledge and information in the ways we now can. Therefore, in the digital age of the 21st century, many higher education institutions are considering how to better support scholarship in a wide variety of disciplines on their campuses. One response is implementing digital tools into the curriculum and community archives.
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    Striving for Equity: How Walker Library Supports Student Success Through Textbook Affordability Programs
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2024) Mangrum, Suzanne ; Baskin, Ginelle
    Presentation at the 2024 TASSR Conference on September 26, 2024 in Murfreesboro, TN. Provides an overview of how Walker Library fosters a culture of student support by actively removing textbook barriers. We achieve this through "traditional" collections of print and electronic textbooks on reserve, as well as Open Educational Resources (OER). KEYWORDS: textbook affordability, open educational resources, OER, student success
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    The Introverted Instructor: Tackling Library Instruction When It’s Out of Your Comfort Zone
    (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2024) Baskin, Ginelle
    This chapter examines the challenges that come with being an introverted library instructor, such as nervousness, being afraid to make a mistake, and imposter syndrome, and the author shares personal reflections about what helped her become comfortable in the library instructor role. It delves into what training helped and shares practical tips and strategies for how to prepare for teaching a library class. KEYWORDS: library instruction, introvert, training