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Web Content for Everyone Symposium

Accompanying guide for the Web Content for Everyone Symposium held at Ferris State University on May 15, 2019.

Rebecca Blakiston Portrait Photo

University of Arizona Libraries. Picture-109-1547169754. (n.d.) [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://new.library.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/pictures/picture-109-1547169754.jpg.

Here is the video to Rebecca's Keynote address.

Rebecca Blakiston has been a faculty member at the University of Arizona Libraries since 2008, and a user experience librarian since 2014. She provides oversight, management, and strategic planning for the library website, specializing in user research, user-centered design, writing for the web, and content strategy. She manages a user experience team and provides leadership within a cross-departmental website steering group.

She has published two practical guides for librarians, Usability Testing and Writing Effectively in Print and On the Web. In 2016, she was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker. In 2018, she was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Weave: Journal of Library User Experience.

 

Awards

Library Journal Mover and Shaker

Library Journal, Summer 2016

ALA Leadership Institute - Participant

American Library Association, Fall 2014

 

The University of Arizona. (2019). Profiles: Rebecca L Blakiston. https://profiles.arizona.edu/person/blakisto