User Studies for Digital Library Development (Paperback)

Preface - Tom Wilson 1. Introduction: user studies for digital library development - Milena Dobreva, Andy O’Dwyer and Pierluigi Feliciati PART 1: SETTING THE SCENE 2. Models that inform digital library design - Elaine G Toms 3. User-centric studies - Sudatta Chowdhury 4. Design issues and user needs - Petar Mihaylov 5. Users within the evaluation of digital libraries - Giannis Tsakonas PART 2: METHODS EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED 6. Questionnaires, interviews and focus groups as means for user engagement with evaluation of digital libraries - Jillian R Griffiths 7. Expert evaluation methods - Claus-Peter Klas 8. Evidence of user behaviour: deep log analysis - David Nicholas and David Clark 9. An eye-tracking approach to the evaluation of digital libraries - Panos Balatsoukas 10 Personas - Katja Guldbæk Rasmussen and Gitte Petersen PART 3: USER STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL LIBRARY UNIVERSE: WHAT ELSE NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED? 11. User-related issues in multilingual access to multimedia collections - Paul Clough 12. Children and digital libraries - Ian Ruthven, Monica Landoni and Andreas Lingnau 13. User engagement and social media - Jeffery K Guin 14. Significant others: user studies and digital preservation - Kathleen Menzies and Duncan Birrell 15. The shift to mobile devices - Lina Petrakieva 16. Resource discovery for research and course design - Zsuzsanna Varga 17. Support for users within an educational or e-learning context - Nicola Osborne PART 4: USER STUDIES ACROSS THE CULTURAL HERITAGE SECTOR 18. User studies in libraries - Derek Law 19. User studies in archives - Wendy M Duff 20. User studies in museums: holding the museum in the palm of your hand - Susan Hazan 21. Digital art online: perspectives on user needs, access, documentation and retrieval - Leo Konstantelos 22. User studies for digital libraries’ development: audiovisual collections - Andy O’Dwyer 23. A business-model perspective on end-users and open metadata - Harry Verwayen and Martijn Arnoldus PART 5: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER 24. And now … to the brave real world - Milena Dobreva, Andy O’Dwyer and Pierluigi Feliciati