User Studies for Digital Library Development

User Studies for Digital Library Development

 

Milena Dobreva, Andy O'Dwyer and Pierluigi Feliciati
Price: £49.95
                      ISBN: 978-1-85604-765-4

 

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.

This is an essential guide for information professionals involved in supporting, developing or designing digital library services and for researchers wanting to address the user dimension in their work. It is also an essential textbook for students on LIS and computer science courses who want to understand the importance of the user in information services.
June 2012; 192pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-765-4; £49.95

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Information 2.0

Information 2.0
New models of information production, distribution and consumption
Martin De Saulles
Price: £49.95

This is the essential textbook for students studying the information society.

Covering every aspect of the new digital information environment from iPads and e-books to the future of information and how it will be controlled, this landmark textbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge guide to what’s happening, why and how information professionals can have a pivotal role in this new landscape.

Drawing on international case studies and current trends it explores the fundamental changes in the four core areas of information production, storage, distribution and consumption, grappling with cutting-edge issues such as:

• key information trends in the last 15 years such as mass broadband
• the rise of grass roots information production in social media, open access publishing and the storage of information in the cloud
• how informal, digital methods of information distribution like RSS and webcasting are threatening traditional stakeholders like libraries, publishers and newspapers
• the reconfiguration of the relationships between software, hardware and content creation companies
• the need for a new information literacy and the pivotal role of the information professional.

This is an essential textbook for students taking courses in library and information science, publishing and communication studies, with particular relevance to core modules exploring the information society. It’s also an indispensable guide for academics and practitioners who need to get to grips with the new information environment.

Dr Martin De Saulles is a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton. He has worked in the information and technology sectors for 20 years as a researcher, analyst, entrepreneur, writer and academic.
May 2012; 160pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-754-8; £49.95

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