Library of Congress Labs Letter Inform Future LC Labs Experiments

Special issue: calling all teachers, journalists, storytellers, community leaders, and artists! 

Help shape future directions for the Library of Congress Labs team.

Our team is still actively seeking participants for a user research initiative to help shape our future experiments and explore new ways to make the Library’s collections and resources more useful to even more people.

Specifically, we're hoping to reach teachers, journalists, storytellers, community leaders, and artists of all disciplines who are not already connected to the Library but who use digital resources like historic photos, books, newspapers, music, videos, maps, data or websites in their work.

If you know people who don't currently use the Library's resources but might in the future, please share this initiative with them! 

How to get involved

If you have friends or family who would like to participate, please invite them to submit their information via the online application (https://forms.gle/xiaB8Swp9VR9xL1j8 ) or email LC Labs for more details at LC-Labs@loc.gov.

This Signal blog post goes into more detail about the research and why your participation is crucial! Please share widely with your networks and folks you know who may be interested.

Learning from experiments

This research is part of an ongoing initiative to analyze how past LC Labs experiments serve user needs by providing alternative ways to search, browse, and see the Library's digital collections.

Recommendations and demonstrations based on user research, user testing, and prototyping will help clarify next steps toward realizing key goals in the Digital Strategy, specifically to support emerging styles of research, maximize the use of collections, to connect to users where they are, and to build toward the horizon.

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