Northeastern University (Northeastern University Libraries)

The Northeastern University Library's Digital Scholarship Group will hold a series of meetings to inform and support the development of a teaching and learning toolkit focused on the handling of diversity within the design of information management systems, interfaces, and protocols. The toolkit will address topics including: the effects of tools and interfaces on interactions with documents and items, commonalities and differences between communities of users, and the influence of knowledge representation and other forces on the design of tools and interfaces. These issues will be discussed at an opening forum event, followed by a second meeting of a small design group to draft a toolkit of teaching and learning materials. Those materials will be circulated for public comment, and discussed in detail at a concluding open forum, whose results will be used to create a final version of the toolkit.