Library Use And User Research
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Author | : Lynn Silipigni Connaway |
Publisher | : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781556535000 |
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 | : M. S. Sridhar |
Publisher | : Concept Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9788170229698 |
With reference to users in India.
Author | : Callan Bignoli |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0838949789 |
In 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 | : Brad Nunnally |
Publisher | : "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2016-11-15 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1491951265 |
One key responsibility of product designers and UX practitioners is to conduct formal and informal research to clarify design decisions and business needs. But there’s often mystery around product research, with the feeling that you need to be a research Zen master to gather anything useful. Fact is, anyone can conduct product research. With this quick reference guide, you’ll learn a common language and set of tools to help you carry out research in an informed and productive manner. This book contains four sections, including a brief introduction to UX research, planning and preparation, facilitating research, and analysis and reporting. Each chapter includes a short exercise so you can quickly apply what you’ve learned. Learn what it takes to ask good research questions Know when to use quantitative and qualitative research methods Explore the logistics and details of coordinating a research session Use softer skills to make research seem natural to participants Learn tools and approaches to uncover meaning in your raw data Communicate your findings with a framework and structure
Author | : Aaron Schmidt |
Publisher | : ALA Editions |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-06-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780838912263 |
Useful, 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 | : Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center |
Publisher | : Association of Research Libr |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Academic libraries |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Milena Dobreva |
Publisher | : Facet Publishing |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-06-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1856047652 |
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 | : Mary Kane |
Publisher | : Association of Research Libr |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles R. McClure |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Academic libraries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Denise Troll Covey |
Publisher | : Digital Library Federation |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1933645164 |
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.