Materials for the Arts (MFTA) is a nonprofit organization supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, with
support from the Departments of Sanitation and Education. Materials are collected from individuals and business and then
made accessible to thousands of different educational programs across all of New York City’s five b…[Read more]

This report describes the results of usability testing performed on the Eyebeam website as part of a graduate Usability Theory & Practice course at Pratt Institute in Fall 2018. Eyebeam is a non-profit arts organization located in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Its mission is to “provide both space and support for a community of diverse, justice-driven a…[Read more]

In the last decade, user centered design and user experience (UX) practitioners have become increasingly important in the process of creating useful, intuitive interfaces. In libraries, UX work is often left to librarians themselves. In a paper about UX librarians, this session’s moderator Craig MacDonald finds that they “share a user-centered min…[Read more]

In late 2020 and early 2021, the School of Visual Arts overhauled its library website, moving from a standalone site to a subpage of sva.edu as part of a larger project to bring all of SVA’s websites into WCAG compliance. Prompted by this college-wide web accessibility initiative, in Summer 2021 the SVA Libraries undertook an accessibility…[Read more]