Recognized December 2011
The Board of the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) recognizes Donna Cohen for her volunteer work on behalf of the Association.
Website Update Committee
Donna has been instrumental in the process of updating AIIP’s website. In 2010, she steered the committee that evaluated aiip.org. She’s skillfully led the Website Update Committee through the RFP process to solicit a vendor who will improve navigation, organize content, and define audience segments. - Debbie Wynot, Director, Marketing and Web
Donna Cohen says:
Thank you for this recognition. Throughout the process of both website committees I appreciated the trust that the Board liaisons had in me, and the support they offered. I also was lucky to have many strong team members who collaborated so well to accomplish so much.
Since 1995, D. L. Cohen Information Services has conducted information needs assessments, provided website usability testing and heuristic evaluation, designed website information architecture, created website content inventories and designed virtual and physical libraries. D. L. Cohen Information Services has worked with private businesses, non-profit organizations and government agencies.
Donna Cohen is now focused on three marketing paths:
- Helping clients “vision” a new website, define the content it should contain, and create a hierarchical content inventory which reflects the structure of the future site.
- Usability testing of new websites.
- Heuristic evaluation of existing websites.
In the 1970s, Donna worked in social service agencies. From New England she next came to Oregon, received her M.Ed., and taught industrial arts for 12 years. After returning from the Peace Corps in 1994, where she taught design and technology at a college of education in Botswana, she went to library school at the University of British Columbia. In 1995, she returned to Oregon where she worked as a part-time community college librarian while she built her business, which went full time in 1998. She does still occasionally provide on-call reference services for a public library – to stay in touch with the “library world.”
page updated 18 December 2011
