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Author : M. S. Sridhar
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788170229698
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Library Use and User Research written by M. S. Sridhar and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to users in India.
Author : Andy Priestner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (968 download)
Download or read book A Handbook of User Experience Research & Design in Libraries written by Andy Priestner and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive and practical handbook exploring the value and applicability of UX Research & Design to libraries. As well as detailed methodology, there are numerous case studies from around the world and insights from practitioner librarians. This volume takes you through all the stages of the UX Process, from research, to data mapping and analysis, to idea generation and finally prototyping and iteration. Written by former librarian and experienced UX trainer and consultant Andy Priestner, it is intended for use by all library staff regardless of previous experience and seeks to place the user at the heart of library service development and delivery."--
Author : Lynn Silipigni Connaway
Publisher : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781556535000
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Library in the Life of the User written by Lynn Silipigni Connaway and published by Blackbirch Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2015 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation provides a sequential overview of some of OCLC Research's user behavior research findings that articulate the need for the design of future library services to be all about the user.
Author : Denise Troll Covey
Publisher : Digital Library Federation
ISBN 13 : 1933645164
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Usage and Usability Assessment written by Denise Troll Covey and published by Digital Library Federation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report offers a survey of the methods that are being deployed at leading digital libraries to assess the use and usability of their online collections and services. Focusing on 24 Digital Library Federation member libraries, the study's author, Distinguished DLF Fellow Denise Troll Covey, conducted numerous interviews with library professionals who are engaged in assessment. The report describes the application, strengths, and weaknesses of assessment techniques that include surveys, focus groups, user protocols, and transaction log analysis. Covey's work is also an essential methodological guidebook. For each method that she covers, she is careful to supply a definition, explain why and how libraries use the method, what they do with the results, and what problems they encounter. The report includes an extensive bibliography on more detailed methodological information, and descriptions of assessment instruments that have proved particularly effective.
Author : Aaron Schmidt
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 1555707815
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (557 download)
Download or read book User Experience (UX) Design for Libraries written by Aaron Schmidt and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: User experience (UX) characterizes how a person feels about using a product, system or service. UX design incorporates the practical aspects of utility, ease of use and efficiency to make your web design and functionality decisions with patrons in mind. This results in a better design, a more intuitive interface, and a more enjoyable experience. This book shows you how to get there by providing hands-on steps and best practices for UX design principles, practices, and tools to engage with patrons online and build the best web presence for your library. You ll find out how to conduct a usability test, perform a card sort, make decisions on how to build the architecture of your site, create personas as a cornerstone of your website planning process, create a content strategy, and perform an experience-based evaluation of your site.
Author : Rebecca Blakiston
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442229004
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Usability Testing written by Rebecca Blakiston and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to improve the usability of your library website, but feel that it is too difficult, time-consuming, or expensive? Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians will teach you how to make the case for usability testing, define your audience and their goals, select a usability testing method appropriate for your particular context, plan for an in-house usability test, conduct an effective in-house usability test, analyze usability test results, and create and implement a plan for ongoing, systematic usability testing. Step-by-step instructions, along with a myriad of examples, allow you to use this book as a practical guide, and adapt the techniques for your own context. Techniques are appropriate for libraries of all types, including academic, public, and special libraries.
Author : Milena Dobreva
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856047652
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)
Download or read book User Studies for Digital Library Development written by Milena Dobreva and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 has often been on innovations in technology and not the user. Although user needs 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. Key topics include: • what is the place of user studies in digital libraries and what are the basic user study methods? • explaining user-centric studies, information behaviour and user experience studies • exploring user-study methods such as surveys, questionnaires, expert evaluation methods, eye tracking, deep log analysis, personae and ethnographic studies • critical issues around user studies such as evaluation of digital libraries, digital preservation, social media, the shift to mobile devices and ethics • user studies in specific types of institutions: libraries, archives, museums, audiovisual collections and art collections • the most popular questions and what to do next. Readership: Information professionals involved in supporting, developing or designing digital library services, researchers wanting to address the user dimension in their work and students on LIS and computer science courses who want to understand the importance of the user in information services.
Author : Michele Crump
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1780633238
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Meeting the Needs of Student Users in Academic Libraries written by Michele Crump and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeting the Needs of Student Users in Academic Libraries surveys and evaluates the current practice of learning commons and research services within the academic library community in order to determine if these learning spaces are functioning as intended. To evaluate their findings, the authors examine the measurement tools that libraries have used to evaluate usage and satisfaction, including contemporary anthropological studies that provide a more detailed view of the student’s approach to research. The book takes a candid look at these redesigns and asks if improvements have lived up to expectations of increased service and user satisfaction. Are librarians using these findings to inform the evolution and implementation of new service models, or have they simply put a new shade of lipstick on the pig? Takes an honest look at learning commons in academic libraries and discusses what is working and what is not Explores behind the statistics as to why users come to the library; does the librarians’ concept of ‘the library as place’ match user perception? Looks at the anthropology of the user to gauge satisfaction with the services and space provided by the library via recent survey findings
Author : Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center
Publisher : Association of Research Libr
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book User Studies in ARL Libraries written by Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center and published by Association of Research Libr. This book was released on 1984 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questionnaire, survey of information user attitudes to librarys in universitys and research centres in order to improve their information services and facilities - examines nature of the questions, methods of distribution and data collecting, methodology. Tables.
Author : Lynn Silipigni Connaway
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440878587
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Research Methods in Library and Information Science written by Lynn Silipigni Connaway and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh edition of this frequently adopted textbook features new or expanded sections on social justice research, data analysis software, scholarly identity research, social networking, data science, and data visualization, among other topics. It continues to include discipline experts' voices. The revised seventh edition of this popular text provides instruction and guidance for professionals and students in library and information science who want to conduct research and publish findings, as well as for practicing professionals who want a broad overview of the current literature. Providing a broad introduction to research design, the authors include principles, data collection techniques, and analyses of quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as advantages and limitations of each method and updated bibliographies. Chapters cover the scientific method, sampling, validity, reliability, and ethical concerns along with quantitative and qualitative methods. LIS students and professionals will consult this text not only for instruction on conducting research but also for guidance in critically reading and evaluating research publications, proposals, and reports. As in the previous edition, discipline experts provide advice, tips, and strategies for completing research projects, dissertations, and theses; writing grants; overcoming writer's block; collaborating with colleagues; and working with outside consultants. Journal and book editors discuss how to publish and identify best practices and understudied topics, as well as what they look for in submissions.
Author : Andy Priestner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981635573
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book User Experience in Libraries written by Andy Priestner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first annual UX in Libraries Yearbook. UX in Libraries is a global community of practice committed to exploring, sharing, and advocating for, UX research methods in library and learning services. Each year since 2015 an annual international conference has taken place in the UK. Last year's third iteration took place in Glasgow. This volume collects together the proceedings of that conference, incorporating the keynotes, workshops, the team challenge and the many papers presented by delegates working in both academic and public libraries, together with images from the event. If you are already conducting user experience research or are just starting on that journey the UXLibs Yearbook should prove to be an invaluable companion to your endeavours. This volume is edited by UX trainer and consultant Andy Priestner, who is also the Chair and creator of the UX in Libraries conference.
Author : Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center
Publisher : Association of Research Libr
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book User Surveys and Evaluation of Library Services written by Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center and published by Association of Research Libr. This book was released on 1981 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: set around a competitive dance marathon in Hollywood during the depression, the film follows the competitors as they take themselves to the limit, in the vain hope of winning the coveted prize or attracting the attention of the Hollywood talent scouts. But as the compare states "There can only be one winner, folks, but isn't that the American way?"
Author : Bradford Lee Eden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442266937
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Envisioning Our Preferred Future written by Bradford Lee Eden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 8 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new services, directions, job duties and responsibilities for librarians in academic libraries of the 21st century. Topics include research data management services, web services, improving web design for library interfaces, cooperative virtual reference services, directions on research in the 21st-century academic library, innovative uses of physical library spaces, uses of social media for disseminating scholarly research, information architecture and usability studies, the importance of special collections and archival collections, and lessons learned in digitization and digital projects planning and management. Data management services are highlighted in the context of a consortium of smaller liberal arts and regional institutions who share a common institutional repository. Survey research plays a role in a number of chapters. One provides insight into how academic libraries are currently approaching web services, web applications, and library websites. A second survey is used to explore the role of librarians as web designers, and provides detailed information related to job titles, job duties, time percentages related to duties, and other duties outside of web design. Comments of those surveyed are included and make interesting reading and a deeper understanding of this new function in libraries. More generally, is a survey study exploring how librarians feel about the changes that are currently happening within the profession, as well as how these changes have personally affected their job duties and their current job assignments. Case studies are include one that features QuestionPoint in the context of a cooperative virtual reference service; another shows how research and scholarship can be disseminated using social media tools such as blogs, Twitter, ResearchGate and Google Scholar, among others; a other studies explore the importance of user engagement and buy-in before moving forward on digitization; and one shows how information architecture and usability emerge from the redesign of a public library website and whose successful completion involves user surveying, focus groups, peer site reviews, needs analysis, and usability testing. Two chapters deal with the changing legal context: the importance and understanding of copyright and author rights in the 21st-century academic library, and the basics Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). It is hoped that this volume, and the series in general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the discussions and planning surrounding the future directions, services, and careers in the 21st-century academic library.
Author : Andy Priestner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472484727
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (847 download)
Download or read book User Experience in Libraries written by Andy Priestner and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking new book, library practitioners, anthropologists, and design experts combine to advocate a new focus on User Experience (or 'UX') research methods. Through a combination of theoretical discussion and applied case studies, they argue that this ethnographic and human-centred design approach enables library professionals to gather rich evidence-based insights into what is really going on in their libraries, allowing them to look beyond what library users say they do to what they actually do. Edited by the team behind the international UX in Libraries conference, this volume will ignite new interest in a rapidly emerging area of research.
Author : Denise Troll Covey
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources
ISBN 13 : 9781887334891
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Usage and Usability Assessment written by Denise Troll Covey and published by Washington, D.C. : Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources. This book was released on 2002 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report offers a survey of the methods that are being deployed at leading digital libraries to assess the use and usability of their online collections and services. Focusing on 24 Digital Library Federation member libraries, the study's author, Distinguished DLF Fellow Denise Troll Covey, conducted numerous interviews with library professionals who are engaged in assessment. The report describes the application, strengths, and weaknesses of assessment techniques that include surveys, focus groups, user protocols, and transaction log analysis. Covey's work is also an essential methodological guidebook. For each method that she covers, she is careful to supply a definition, explain why and how libraries use the method, what they do with the results, and what problems they encounter. The report includes an extensive bibliography on more detailed methodological information, and descriptions of assessment instruments that have proved particularly effective.
Author : Ibironke Lawal
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1780630158
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Library and Information Science Research in the 21st Century written by Ibironke Lawal and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this book provides a theoretically informed research guide and draws attention to areas of potential research in Library and Information Science. It explores the nexus of theory and practice and offers suggestions for collaborative projects. The clear text, simple style and rich content make the book an invaluable resource for students, scholars and practicing librarians, as well as the general reader who may be interested in library and information science research. Apart from providing basic research tools, it acquaints librarians with a theoretical compass for dealing with digital media It pays particular attention to the electronic media Addresses topics of current interests in the field, such as user-centered services
Author : Ingeborg Verheul
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110232189
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Digital Library Futures: User Perspectives and Institutional Strategies written by Ingeborg Verheul and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initiatives at a cross-cultural level, where libraries, museums and archives work together in creating digital libraries, and making their cultural heritage collections available online, are emerging. Leading academic researchers from the cultural heritage and the publishers sectors approach this issue: Digital library user experience: a focus on current user research; Digital library content: what users want and how they use it; Strategies for institutions: how cultural institutions and publishers respond to the digital challenge.
