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10338	Cyzyk, Mark	ITAL Editorial Board Thoughts. Halfway Home: User Centered Design and Library Websites	2018-03-19	2	.pdf	application/pdf	826	56	68	Mark Cyzyk (mcyzyk@jhu.edu), a member of LITA and the ITAL editorial board, is the Scholarly User Centered Design approach was used to plan the site. In contrast to the Single Person Vision and Design by Committee approaches, User Centered Design focuses on the empirical study and eliciting of the needs of users. But User Centered Design has blind spots. In my library, our primary users are our faculty and student researchers, so great attention was paid and student researchers will always be our primary user group. Third, and perhaps most importantly, User Centered Design discounts the expertise of librarians. knows a library's users and patrons as well as librarians. Knowing their users, eliciting their needs, is part Information Desk, know through long experience that researchers of varying types find floor maps of the missed through our focus on User Centered Design points to a blind spot in that process.	./cache/10338.pdf	./txt/10338.txt