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• DIY Usability Testing Workshop

  • When
    March 30, 2012
  •  
    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (PDT)
  • Location
    Latino-Hispanic Room, San Franciso Public Libarary, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA
  • Spaces left
    28

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  DIY Usability Testing: Quick and Approachable Methods To Improve Your Website and Other Communication Channels By Listening to Users
  
  Our websites and many other user access points can be a pleasure to use or they can inadvertently frustrate our users and keep them from getting to the information they want and need. Usability methodologies such as observations, interviews, and task analysis provide direct feedback to help us maximize our efforts, making our materials more accessible and easier to use.
  
  Through a mix of discussion, demonstration, and hands-on practice, participants will learn inexpensive tips, tricks, and best practices that they can implement immediately and apply to a range of channels, including: websites, catalogs, finding aids, mobile devices, newsletters, and even basic forms and communications.
  
  Informed, validated design leads to exponentially better web experiences, resulting in more traffic and greater awareness of our services and collections. The workshop is open to anyone interested in improving the quality of their user access points; no prior technical expertise or web skills are required.
  
  About the presenter: Anne Hall is the Research Librarian and Archivist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Prior to her role at the Federal Reserve, Anne worked for ten years in the Wells Fargo Historical Services Department, managing the San Francisco Headquarters Museum facility and contributing to special events and projects. Anne holds an MLIS from San Jose State, is a Certified Archivist, and has taken courses from the Bentley University Design and Usability Center.
  
  Scholarships available! Apply for the Walter P. Gray III Education Endowment Fund Scholarship which awards $200 per workshop. Submit an application form, including a proposed budget to: Liz Phillips, ekphillips[at]stanford.edu by March 16, 2012.
  
  Registration: SCA Member - $60;   Non-SCA Member - $90;   Student (with copy of ID) - $50.
  
  Registrations must be completed by March 23, 2012
  
  

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• SCA Annual General Meeting

  • Start
    April 26, 2012
  •  
  • End
    April 28, 2012
  • Location
    Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach

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  Ride the Wave to SCA!

  Click the gray "Register" button below to register online for the AGM and/or the Pre-AGM Workshops.

  
  

  To receive the member discount, SCA members must login (orange box in the lower left corner of web page) before registering for the AGM or workshops.
  
  Online registration provides two payment options:
  

  1.  Online payment:  Using a credit card, debit card or PayPal account (all transactions are processed through PayPal).  Receipt will be emailed from SCA and PayPal.
  
  2.  Payment by check:  Make checks out to "Society of California Archivists."  Mail to:
  Leilani Marshall
  Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History
  Department of History
  San Jose State University
  One Washington Square
  San Jose, CA  95192-0147
  Receipt will be available at the registration table on site.
  

  Though online registration will be available through April 28, please register by April 15 in order for your AGM materials (name tag, meal tickets, etc.) to be issued upon check-in at the AGM.  On-site registration fees are the same as online fees.  On-site registration fees may only be paid by check or cash (not credit card).
  
  In order to receive the SCA member discount, your SCA membership must be current before you register online.  To join SCA or renew your membership see Membership Information.
  
  

  • Questions about your membership?  Contact Eric Milenkiewicz <membership@calarchivists.org>
    

  • Questions about Registration? Contact Leilani Marshall <lmarshall@sourisseauacademy.org>

  • Problems with your credit card payment? Need to request a refund involving credit card or PayPal? Contact the SCA Treasurer <treasurer@calarchivists.org>

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