User-Centred Library Websites
User-Centred Library Websites

Author: Carole George

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2008-07-31

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1780631901

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Targeted at Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals, this book concentrates on usability evaluation methods used to design usable and user-centered library websites. Aimed at the practitioner, it is a practical guide to methods that are used to gather information from potential users that shape the design of the website based on an interactive design process. From planning the study to writing the report, this book guides the reader through the process of usability evaluation using examples from the author's experience with usability evaluation of library interfaces. It describes usability techniques, procedures, report writing, and design changes that lead to a user-centered interface. - A concise, practical guide to completing usability evaluation methods with an emphasis on creating user-centered library websites - Includes examples that draw on the author's practical experience with usability evaluation - Useful guidelines to creating participant recruitment letters, scripts, thank you notes, and forms illustrated with practical examples

Libraries as User-centered Organizations
Libraries as User-centered Organizations

Author: Meredith A. Butler

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781560246169

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How do we begin to assess the impact of economic, technological, demographic, and management trends in our environment and understand the long term implications? How can administrators, managers and information professionals take advantage of these trends? How can librarians empower staff and change organizational hierarchies to create more responsive and rewarding environments? How do we restructure organizations to make them more learning- and student-centered and more responsive to the needs of new clienteles? These are just a few of the questions addressed in Libraries as User-Centered Organizations, which examines organizational change from the point of view that academic institutions are experiencing a paradigm shift in the definition of their mission, their focus, and their activities. As librarians move into a new paradigm of library as gateway and connector, they must also shift their focus from the information product to the user of information. This profound change in vision is explored in this book through the concept of user-centeredness, a focus on the habits, needs, desires, dislikes, abilities, and preferences of the user. Libraries as User-Centered Organizations explores a variety of important aspects of organizational change including: leadership styles sustaining and expanding staff empowerment and creativity collaboration between libraries and computer centers creating multicultural organizations remolding the library science educational structure organizational change in professional associations Libraries as User-Centered Organizations looks at current trends affecting higher education, research libraries, professional education for librarians, professional associations, and publishing from the point of view of some of the leaders in these fields and offers readers a context for viewing organizational change. The book is of particular assistance to library administrators and educators engaged in planning for change and rethinking operations and services.

New Trends in Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries
New Trends in Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries

Author: Anthi Katsirikou

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9814350303

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This unique volume presents the latest scientific achievements of library researchers and professionals on the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Libraries. Scholars and professionals have now an information resource on methodological tools for library services. Except for the new technologies that facilitate the innovation of libraries, it is the underlying policy and functional changes that have the most lasting effect on the scholarly operation that explains why this volume is important in the field or market. It also explores in detail the areas covering library methodologies, marketing and management, statistics and bibliometrics, content and subject analysis, users' behaviors and library policies that play an important role at every aspect of library research in the twenty-first century.

New Trends In Qualitative And Quantitative Methods In Libraries: Selected Papers Presented At The 2nd Qualitative And Quantitative Methods In Libraries - Proceedings Of The International Conference On Qqml2010
New Trends In Qualitative And Quantitative Methods In Libraries: Selected Papers Presented At The 2nd Qualitative And Quantitative Methods In Libraries - Proceedings Of The International Conference On Qqml2010

Author: Anthi Katsirikou

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9814460494

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This unique volume presents the latest scientific achievements of library researchers and professionals on the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Libraries. Scholars and professionals have now an information resource on methodological tools for library services. Except for the new technologies that facilitate the innovation of libraries, it is the underlying policy and functional changes that have the most lasting effect on the scholarly operation that explains why this volume is important in the field or market.It also explores in detail the areas covering library methodologies, marketing and management, statistics and bibliometrics, content and subject analysis, users' behaviors and library policies that play an important role at every aspect of library research in the twenty-first century.

User-Centered Library Visualization
User-Centered Library Visualization

Author: Moßburger, Luis

Publisher: b.i.t. online Verlag

Published: 2022-06-01

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 3982442508

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Angesichts der Veränderung digitaler Sammlungen und ihres wachsenden Umfangs müssen Bibliotheken neue Technologien einsetzen, um den Zugang zu ihrem Bestand zu gewährleisten. Informationsvisualisierung kann eine visuelle Möglichkeit zur effizienten Exploration solcher Sammlungen bieten. In den Bibliotheken fehlt es jedoch an Wissen über die Sichtweise von Nutzenden und an praktischen Richtlinien zur Entwicklung von Visualisierungen. Die vorliegende Arbeit soll dazu beitragen, diese Lücke zu schließen. Erstens konnten aus zwölf Experteninterviews 112 Design-Empfehlungen für die Implementierung von Visualisierungen in Bibliotheken und ein Metamodell für solche Projekte gewonnen werden. Zweitens deutet eine Umfrage mit 242 Teilnehmenden darauf hin, dass die Häufigkeit der Nutzung digitaler Materialien sowie Forschungsthemen das Interesse an Visualisierungen beeinflussen. Drittens wurde mit einem partizipativem Designansatz im Kontext einer Interviewstudie zu Arbeitsweisen von historisch orientierten Theolog*innen eine prototypische Visualisierung mit digitalisierten Briefen aus der Harvard Library entwickelt und in einer Evaluationsstudie als innovativ, effizient und nützlich beurteilt.

M-Libraries 5
M-Libraries 5

Author: Gill Needham

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Published: 2015-05-27

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1783300345

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An up-to-date showcase of the innovative and inspiring work that libraries are doing across the world to interact with their users and deliver resources via mobile devices. This brand new edition of the highly successful M-Libraries series brings together cutting-edge international contributions from the leading experts, practitioners and researchers in the field. Based on the proceedings of the Fifth International M-Libraries Conference held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014, it illustrates the diversity of innovative and inspiring work that libraries are doing across the world to interact with their users and deliver resources via mobile and hand-held devices. With a foreword from Joan K Lippincott and 22 chapters from 13 countries, as far apart as India and Germany, Hong Kong and Zimbabwe, Scotland and Bangladesh, the book explores the following themes: - Best practice for the use of mobile technologies in libraries - Challenges and strategies involved in embracing mobile innovation for libraries - The impact of ubiquitous and wearable technologies on the future of libraries - Harnessing the future for teaching and learning with mobile technologies - Mobile technologies enhancing information access for all and pursuing the millennium development goals. As the world becomes more mobile, users will access information using mobile technologies. Hence, libraries have to make the transition to provide mobile service. M-Libraries 5 will help libraries to develop adaptable and efficient mobile services so they can meet the needs of the current and new generations of users. Readership: Information professionals in all sectors and researchers, educators, technical developers, managers and library professionals. It will also be invaluable for students of library and information science and newcomers to the profession.

Integrating LibGuides into Library Websites
Integrating LibGuides into Library Websites

Author: Aaron W. Dobbs

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-10-07

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1442270349

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Integrating LibGuides into Library Websites introduces ideas and options for both newer users and administrators. This book covers responsive, mobile-first web design, and provides overviews and in-depth information for LibGuides authors and administrators. Topics covered include: Introduction: If you’re new to LibGuides, learn the ins and outs as well as how to maximize functionality through the use of the new version and LibApps Administration and Management: Learn about the administrator’s role in LibGuides and how you foster cooperation and integration between content creators and users Usability and Accessibility: Using theoretical and concrete ideas, improve LibGuides content and user experience Pedagogy: Through tips and best practices, learn how to enhance the classroom experience by incorporating LibGuides into teaching Level-up your LibGuides content with improved accessibility and usability. Imbue your LibGuides instructional support with sound pedagogical theory. It’s great to have a useful, accessible site as a starting point. Take your LibGuides to the next level using sound pedagogical design and practices. Through detailed instructions and real life examples, this authoritative LITA Guide provides you with the tools and knowledge to enhance and invigorate your LibGuides experience.

User Experience in Libraries
User Experience in Libraries

Author: Andy Priestner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1317003136

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Modern library services can be incredibly complex. Much more so than their forebears, modern librarians must grapple daily with questions of how best to implement innovative new services, while also maintaining and updating the old. The efforts undertaken are immense, but how best to evaluate their success? In this groundbreaking new book from Routledge, 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, User Experience in Libraries will ignite new interest in a rapidly emerging and game-changing area of research. Clearly written and passionately argued, it is essential reading for all library professionals and students of Library and Information Science. It will also be welcomed by anthropologists and design professionals working in related fields.

Introduction to Digital Libraries
Introduction to Digital Libraries

Author: Gobinda G. Chowdhury

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1856044653

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"This books presents a holistic view of the new digital library scene ... it is an essential guide to good digital practice and techniques" - back cover.

The ABCs of ERM
The ABCs of ERM

Author: Jessica Zellers

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-01-22

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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The ever-shifting landscape of electronic resources challenges even the most tech-savvy information professionals. Now, however, you can surmount those challenges, with the solid backing offered in this practical book. Despite their being visible, valuable, and expensive components of public and academic library collections, electronic resources remain somewhat mysterious to many librarians. How do you deal with vendors, how do you decide which e-resources to buy, how do you optimize access for remote users, and perhaps most importantly, how do you motivate your public to use them? Created by three front-line practitioners, this guide answers all of those questions and more, offering practical advice to information professionals involved in any aspect of electronic resource management—from selecting, acquiring, and activating to managing, promoting, and deselecting. It features clear instructions along with definitions, checklists, FAQs, and sidebars comprising sensible tips and anecdotal asides for the involved librarian. Written in a lively style and brimming with helpful information, this is the guide you'll wish you had in library school, and a resource you will refer to again and again.