Document Type
Book Chapter
Date
4-2024
Keywords
Universal Design for Learning, User Interfaces, User Experience, Cataloging, Metadata, Digital Collections, Clothing
Language
English
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Description/Abstract
Our digital collections team took on the challenge to improve the tools and processes of cataloging. We began to explore how we could build features that helped students into a cataloging worksheet tool, under development at DressDiscover.org. After our initial development of the tool, we looked back and realized just how much Universal Design for Learning (UDL) had influenced our design, although we had not consciously intended that from the start. Our assessment of the project through a UDL lens was at first extremely affirming, helping us to note many ways that our work already supported all three of UDL’s principles of multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression. Next, it helped us prioritize the implementation of certain improvements we already had in mind and to add further ideas for future development. Looking at the project from the perspective of UDL helped us to shift from seeing poor quality in catalog records as a deficit on the part of the cataloger to a lack of supportive functionality in cataloging systems and processes. With a UDL approach to the design of cataloging interfaces and processes, we can provide accommodations to catalogers who have formally disclosed disabilities as well as make the cataloging process more comfortable and productive for all, including those who may have invisible, undisclosed, or temporary disabilities, those who are new to the process, and those who have been doing it for years.
ISBN
9798892555494
Recommended Citation
Kirkland, Arden, and Minor Gordon. “A Visual Workflow for Cataloging.” Universal Design for Learning in Academic Libraries: Theory into Practice, edited by Danielle Skaggs and Rachel M. McMullin, Association of College & Research Libraries, 2024, pp. 207–24.
Source
submission
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