Academic Librarianship
- Instruction & information literacy education
- Reference & research consultations
- Research data & scholarly communication
Librarian · Developer · Designer
I build accessible
I build accessible
information experiences for people and research.
I'm Rasheed Adigun, an MSLIS candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign working at the intersection of AI literacy, web development and user experience research.
- Web pages designed
- 180+
- Reference inquiries supported
- 35k
- Years across web & libraries
- 6+
- Research projects
- 3+
Worked and studied with
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Grainger Engineering Library
- School of Information Sciences, UIUC
- Serveased Technology
- AKOTECH Dynamics
- Health Science Librarians of Illinois
- Tai Solarin University of Education
- King's Heritage Missionary Home
Selected work
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AI
2026
Multilingual AI Chat Assistant
Personal project (NaijaTalk) NaijaTalk is a chat assistant that actually answers in Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa, built because most AI tools quietly assume everyone thinks in English. View project Websites 2025
iSchool Web Redesign | 180+ Pages
School of Information Sciences, UIUC A summer spent rebuilding 180+ pages of the iSchool website: accessibility, brand-consistent design, clean metadata and a style guide so it stays that way. View project Websites 2025-2026
LibGuides Accessibility Remediation
Grainger Engineering Library & Information Center (GELIC), UIUC Rewriting and remediating engineering research guides so students can actually find (and read) what the library offers. View projectNo projects in this category yet. More coming soon.
What I do
Three practices, one goal: information people can actually use.
Technology & AI
- Web development & CMS content systems
- Library systems (Alma, Primo VE, SpringShare)
- AI literacy & AI-enhanced search
UI/UX & Accessibility
- User research & usability studies
- Prototyping & design systems in Figma
- WCAG 2.1 AA audits & remediation
Writing
All articles Latest articles
When AI Gives the Answer Before You Search: What Happens to Critical Thinking?
AI can answer a question in seconds. But getting an answer and understanding it are not the same thing. Here is what the research tells us…
Librarians of Things and Librarians of People
Beyond books and databases: what a reference meeting at Grainger taught me about why librarianship needs both. Where I first heard…
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