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Author: Lynn Silipigni Connaway
Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781556535000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: AI-Suqri, Mohammed Nasser
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2013-07-31
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1466643544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile high quality library and information services continue to thrive and strengthen economic and social development, much of the knowledge that exists on users needs and behaviors is fundamentally based on the results of users in English-speaking, western developed countries. Information Access and Library User Needs in Developing Countries highlights the struggles that developing countries face in terms of information gaps and information-seeking user behavior. The publication highlights ways in which users in developing countries can benefit from properly implementing LIS services. Researchers, academics, and practitioners interested in the design and delivery of information services will benefit from this collection of research.
Author: Milena Dobreva
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Published: 2012-06-22
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1856047652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Aaron Schmidt
Publisher: ALA Editions
Published: 2014-06-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780838912263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUseful, useable, desirable: like three legs of a stool, if your library is missing the mark on any one of these it's bound to wobble.
Author: Callan Bignoli
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13: 0838949789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the face of rapid change and an ever-widening constellation of challenges, it’s crucial for library leaders to pull back to the question of “why?” Plotting a sustainable way forward depends upon recommitting ourselves to our underlying values, such as customer service and community-building, while fostering the improvements that change makes possible. With passion, patience, and fortitude, libraries can stride confidently into the future. In this book, noted speakers and consultants Bignoli and Stara speak directly to library directors, managers, administrators, and technology staff, offering concrete guidance on setting or resetting strategic priorities. Taking an interconnected and specific approach to planning for and strengthening the library environment as a whole, their book discusses why libraries should embrace change as a fundamental part of library life; explores how to harness rapid change to provide more responsive, user-centered library service; addresses the ways in which libraries straddle the physical and the digital, in areas such as service provision and collections, illuminating how they overlap and can be improved using similar philosophies; presents both a comprehensive overview of library technologies as well as related team and change management advice, all grounded in user experience principles; shows how the concepts of sustainability and flexibility apply to physical space planning and design, from furniture selection and arrangement to infrastructure; and provides sound guidance on project management, problem solving, preparing for future challenges, personal reflection and self-care, and other leadership topics.
Author: Wang, Victor C. X.
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2014-12-31
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 1466674105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor faculty to advance their careers in higher education, publishing is essential. A competitive marketplace, strict research standards, and scrupulous tenure committees are all challenges academicians face in publishing their research and achieving tenure at their institutions. The Handbook of Research on Scholarly Publishing and Research Methods assists researchers in navigating the field of scholarly publishing through a careful analysis of multidisciplinary research topics and recent trends in the industry. With its broad, practical focus, this handbook is of particular use to researchers, scholars, professors, graduate students, and librarians.
Author: Gilbert Oakley Ward
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eunice C. Cronin
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 644
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA systems analysis technique is applied to the scientific problem solving requirements of a major Air Force research organization to establish: The functional organization of a research support group; A valuable data base for a Customer User Library (CUL); and A Management Information System for scheduling, reporting and control. The report summarizes the functional organization of the Analysis and Simulation Branch of the Computation Center at AFCRL as derived from an analysis of the spectrum of analytical and computational problems originating in the Laboratories. A detailed description the structure and mode of operation of the Customer User Library is provided, together with a discussion of the associated Management Information System. An extensive listing of scientific problem abstracts is provided in the Appendices.
Author: Fulkerson, Diane M.
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2012-03-31
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 146660235X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book is crucial to understanding changes and the new expectations that library users have in the 21st century, including identifying, implementing and updating new technologies, understanding copyright and fair use laws, creating metadata for access to digital collections, and meeting user needs"--Provided by publisher.
