User Studies for Digital Library Development / edited by Milena Dobreva, Andy O'Dwyer, and Pierluigi Feliciati.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dobreva, Milena, editor.

O'Dwyer, Andy, editor.

Feliciati, Pierluigi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital libraries--Use studies.

Digital libraries.

Digital libraries--Collection development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London : Facet, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As the information environment becomes increasingly electronic, digital libraries have proliferated, but the focus has often been on innovations in technology and not the user. Although userneeds have become a popular concept, in practice the users are rarely consulted in the development of services. Research and analysis of users is essential to fine-tune the content and approach of digital libraries to the diverging requirements and expectations of incredibly varied communities and to ensure libraries are effective, accessible and sustainable in the long term. Providing a clear and coherent overview of the user studies domain and user issues in digital libraries this landmark edited text captures a truly global cross-section of leading voices.

Contents:

Preface / Tom Wilson

Introduction: user studies for digital library development / Milena Dobreva, Andy O'Dwyer and Pierluigi Feliciati.

Part 1: Setting the scene. Models that inform digital library design / Elaine G. Toms ; User-centric studies / Sudatta Chowdhury ; Design issues and user needs / Petar Mihaylov ; Users within the evaluation of digital libraries / Giannis Tsakonas.

Part 2: Methods explained and illustrated. Questionnaires, interviews and focus groups as means for user engagement with evaluation of digital libraries / Jillian R. Griffiths ; Expert evaluation methods / Claus-Peter Klas ; Evidence of user behaviour: deep log analysis / David Nicholas and David Clark ; An eye-tracking approach to the evaluation of digital libraries / Panos Balatsoukas ; Personas / Katja Guldbak Rasmussen and Gitte Petersen.

Part 3: User studies in the digital library universe: what else needs to be considered? User-related issues in multilingual access to multimedia collections / Paul Clough ; Children and digital libraries / Ian Ruthven, Monica Landoni and Andreas Lingnau ; User engagement and social media / Jeffery K. Guin ; Significant others: user studies and digital preservation / Kathleen Menzies and Duncan Birrell ; The shift to mobile devices / Lina Petrakieva ; Resource discovery for research and course design / Zsuzsanna Varga ; Support for users within an educational or e-learning context / Nicola Osborne.

Part 4: User studies across the cultural heritage sector. User studies in libraries / Derek Law ; User studies in archives / Wendy M. Duff ; User studies in museums: holding the museum in the palm of your hand / Susan Hazan ; Digital art online: perspectives on user needs, access, documentation and retrieval / Leo Konstantelos ; User studies for digital libraries' development: audiovisual collections / Andy O'Dwyer ; A business-model perspective on end-users and open metadata / Harry Verwayen and Martijn Arnoldus.

Part 5: Putting it all together. And now

to the brave real world / Milena Dobreva, Andy O'Dwyer and Pierluigi Feliciati.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781856049269

1856049264

OCLC:

836848882