Abstract: Usage and Usability Assessment: Library Practices and Concerns

Abstract: Usage and Usability Assessment: Library Practices and Concerns

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The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) presents an abstract of the report entitled "Usage and Usability Assessment: Library Practices and Concerns," by Denise Troll Covey. The report is available in HTML and PDF formats. Covey discusses the methods used by digital libraries to assess the use of their online collections and services.


Dimensions and Use of the Scholarly Information Environment

Dimensions and Use of the Scholarly Information Environment

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Publisher: Digital Library Federation

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 900

ISBN-13: 1933645202

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Users' expectations of libraries are changing as they find and obtain more information directly from the Web. To better understand how usage patterns are changing, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) commissioned Outsell, Inc., to conduct a large-scale study of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members from a wide range of academic institutions. This report includes 158 of the 659 data tables, a few summary observations, and a brief discussion of some possible implications of the findings. To view all 659 tables, click here. CLIR will deposit the raw data tapes with the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).


Digital Library Futures

Digital Library Futures

Author: Ingeborg Verheul

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010-12-23

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 3110232197

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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.


Coming of Age in America

Coming of Age in America

Author: Mary C. Waters

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-09-20

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0520270932

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"Much hand-wringing has occurred over the so-called failure of young people to grow up today. This volume persuasively shows the range of forces that shape the protracted transition to adulthood. An excellent and enjoyable read." --Deborah Carr, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University, and editor of the Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development. "The essays in this volume are written with great verve and intelligence, grounded in extensive fieldwork and careful data analysis." --Frank Furstenberg, Professor of Sociology in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania


Serials Collection Management in Recessionary Times

Serials Collection Management in Recessionary Times

Author: Karen Lawson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-04-08

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1317983300

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Strategic planning, collaboration, continual stewardship, best practices, and re-engineering can provide librarians with a toolkit of innovative strategies that meets the worst of economic times with bold, persistent experimentation. This book covers the implications for libraries of a broad range of technological and economic challenges. These challenges include the fallout from the global economic crisis, the positioning of usage statistics, the advent of open access scholarship, database management, responding to budgetary constrictions and general access to serials. Taken as a whole, this collection provides practitioners in the library sector and in higher education with a wide variety of insights on the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities involved with serials collection management in recessionary times, written by academic librarians, vendors, publishers, fundraisers, and higher education professionals. This book was published as a special issue of The Serials Librarian.


Internet Librarian 2003

Internet Librarian 2003

Author: Information Today, Inc

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Published: 2003

Total Pages: 340

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The Proceedings from the seventh annual Internet Librarian Conference contain a mixture of leading-edge ideas as well as exciting new services-all focused on information professionals and Internet related technologies. This conference is designed for information professionals who are using, developing, and embraching Net and Web-based strategies in their roles as information searchers, guides, Webmasters and Web managers, content evaluators and organizers, product developers, and more. Internet Librarian topics include Navigating the Net, E-Content and E-Skills, Intranet and Portal Applications, Web World, and more.


Don't Make Me Think!

Don't Make Me Think!

Author: Steve Krug

Publisher: New Riders

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780789723109

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