User studies for digital library development /

"This landmark text captures a global cross-section of leading voices and provides a clear and coherent overview of the user studies domain and user issues in digital libraries. As the information environment becomes increasingly electronic, digital libraries have proliferated, but the focus ha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dobreva, Milena, O'Dwyer, Andy, Feliciati, Pierluigi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Facet, ©2012.
Temas:
Digital libraries > Use studies.
Digital libraries > Collection development.
Digital libraries.
Collection development (Libraries)
Digital libraries > Utilization.
Libraries, Digital
Library Collection Development
Library Surveys
Bibliothèques virtuelles > Utilisation.
Bibliothèques virtuelles > Développement des collections.
Bibliothèques virtuelles.
Développement des collections (Bibliothèques)
collection development.
Library & information services.
Archiving, preservation & digitisation.
IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General.
Digital libraries
Digital libraries > Collection development
Benutzerforschung
Elektronische Bibliothek
Digitale bibliotheken.
Collectievorming.
Use studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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