11 February 2026
A total of 16 people attended the group’s first meeting, representing 6 academic libraries, 3 public libraries, and one consortium.
Presentations:
- Mark Goodwin (UBC) – presentation slides
- George Villavicencio (Douglas) – presentation slides
- Janis McKenzie (SFU) – presentation slides
Possible future discussion topics:
- Advocating for user-centred websites
- Mapping tools
- Accessibility (including for multimedia content)
- UX best practices
- Operationalizing UX work
- User-centred institutional culture (building / maintaining)
Closing comments:
- remember the forum (https://bclaconnect.ca/community/bcla-forums/forum/bcla-ux-interest-group/)
- and see (some of) you at BCLA: Birds of a Feather session April 24
- stay tuned for next meeting in June
