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I make library websites better.

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Graphic Design and Library and Information Science

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Trust, But Verify: Auditing Vendor-Supplied Accessibility Claims (Melina Zavala and Matthew Reidsma) Code4Lib (2020)

Despite a long-overdue push to improve the accessibility of our libraries’ online presences, much of what we offer to our patrons comes from third party vendors: discovery layers, OPACs, subscription databases, and so on. We ...

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Masked by Trust: Bias in Library Discovery (Matthew Reidsma) (2019)

The rise of Google and its integration into nearly every aspect of our lives has pushed libraries to adopt similar "Google-like" search tools, called discovery systems. Because these tools are provided by libraries and search ...

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Customizing Vendor Systems for Better User Experiences: The Innovative Librarian's Guide (Matthew Reidsma) Books and Contributions to Books (2016)

Are you struggling to make several vendor-hosted tools behave like a cohesive website? Frustrated by the lack of customization available in your vendor tools? Do your users get confused by vendor tools designed for librarians? ...

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Responsive Web Design for Libraries (A Lita Guide) (Matthew Reidsma) (2014)

Tablets, desktops, smartphones, laptops, minis: we live in a world of screens, all of different sizes. Library websites need to work on all of them, but maintaining separate sites or content management systems is resource ...

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Keynote1: Ethical UX (Matthew Reidsma) Books and Contributions to Books (2017)

When the social critic Paul Goodman wrote that "technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science,” he meant that shaping the world through technology involved moral choices, concerned with how we ought to ...

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Holistic UX: Harness Your Library’s Data Fetish to Solve the Right Problems (Matt Borg and Matthew Reidsma) Books and Contributions to Books (2016)

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Responsive Web Design for Libraries: Beyond the Mobile Web (Matthew Reidsma) Mobile Library Services: Best Practices (2013)

A responsive website adapts to each users' device, changing its presentation through fluid grids, scalable images, and CSS3 media queries. I give an introduction to responsive design, and then walk through converting the Grand Valley ...

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Ethical UX (Matthew Reidsma) Minnesota Library Association's ARLD Day (2019)

The social critic Paul Goodman once wrote that "technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science." His point was that decisions on how to shape the world through technology were inherently moral choices, ...

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More than Usable: Library services for humans. (Matthew Reidsma) MD Tech Connect (2018)

As Experience designers, we're interested in more than just products, services, and websites. But our toolkit looks remarkably like the toolkit product designers use: design for tasks, hope emotions will follow. But experience is big, ...

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Algorithmic Awareness (Matthew Reidsma) Algorithmic Awareness Board Meeting (2018)

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Auditing algorithms in commercial discovery tools (Matthew Reidsma) Code4Lib Annual (2018)

Library search tools are littered with algorithms that determine what a search ""means"" and what items are ""relevant,"" among other things. Evaluating these algorithms is hard, because their workings are unknown. The algorithms are the ...

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Algorithmic Bias in Library Discovery Systems. (Matthew Reidsma) ProQuest Team Meeting (2017)

Presentation to ProQuest's December All Team Meeting.

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Ethical UX (Matthew Reidsma) UX Libs III (2017)

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Everyone is a Distance Learner (Matthew Reidsma) 17th Distance Library Services Conference (2017)

More and more essential library services are moving to the web - and yet it is the rare library website that is designed for users who never set foot in the physical library. Despite the ...

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The UX of Scholarship (Matthew Reidsma) NISO Virtual Conference: Interacting with Content: Improving the User Experience (2015)

User Experience (UX) techniques are used to improve websites, services, and even physical spaces. But what about Academic Scholarship? At Weave: The Journal of Library User Experience, the editors and editorial board are all UX ...

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Customizing Vendor Tools With JavaScript (Matthew Reidsma) Michigan Library Association Applied Technology & Trends Workshop (2015)

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Good for Whom? (Matthew Reidsma) Harvard University Libraries UX Day (2015)

As libraries evolve, technological solutions for many of the problems librarians face on a daily basis become more and more enticing. While many of the technological wonders do make our work lives better, they often ...

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More than usable: Library services for humans (Matthew Reidsma) UX Libs (2015)

CSSMaker, or, When Dumb Ideas You Get at Lunch Work Out (Matthew Reidsma) Code4Lib Midwest Conference 2014 (2014)

CSSMaker is a tool for concatenating and compressing multiple CSS files across different servers whether or not you control the file.

Library Web Site Triage (Matthew Reidsma) Library Technology Conference (2014)

Do you know your library website needs work but you're not sure where to start? In this workshop, I will show you a number of ideas for improving library websites quickly and easily. Participants should ...

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Holistic Tech: Harness Your Library's Data Fetish to Solve the Right Problems (Matthew Reidsma) Library Technology Conference (2014)

Libraries have jumped on the User Experience bandwagon of late, rethinking our tools and services with a new focus on patron needs. But we still see things differently than our patrons. Where we see discrete ...

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The Library with a Thousand Databases (Matthew Reidsma) NISO’s Virtual Conference on Web Scale Discovery (2013)

In his book, *The Hero with a Thousand Faces*, Joseph Campbell laid out a narrative pattern he saw across myths, stories, and religious rituals that he called The Hero's Journey. The hero moved out of ...

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Good for Whom? Putting Technology in the Service of People (Matthew Reidsma) Library Technology Forum (2013)

Good for Whom? Putting Technology in the Service of People (Matthew Reidsma) Libraries eResource & Emerging Technologies Summit (2013)

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Websites are for people (Matthew Reidsma) Library Technology Conference (2013)

Library websites are notoriously hard to use. Our staff spend much of their time training our patrons to use our online tools, instead of helping to develop deeper skills. We can learn from fields like ...

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