Evaluation of Digital Libraries. An Insight Into Useful Applications and Methods

✍ Scribed by Giannis Tsakonas and Christos Papatheodorou (Eds.)

Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 284
Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Evaluation of Digital Libraries summarizes research and practice on both sides of the Atlantic and aims to answer the potential questions that both the theoretical and practical areas of digital library evaluation have posed during recent years. The book systematically presents aspects of participating communities, reasons and aims of evaluation, methodologies and metrics, and application paradigms.

The book deals with practical and theoretical issues on digital libraries development and evaluation
It will be multi-disciplinary due to its nature incorporating views and perspectives of various contributing fields
Distinguished digital library researchers and practitioners present systematically methods, techniques and practices. The list of contributors include Maristella Agosti, David Bainbridge, Ann Blandford, Colleen Cook, Nicola Ferro, Brinley Franklin, Manolis Garoufallou, Sarah Giersch, Richard Hartley, Judy Jeng, Michael Khoo, Martha Kyrillidou, Yvonna Lincoln, David McArthur, Maria Monopoli, David Nicholas, Christos Papatheodorou, Terry Plum, Tefko Saracevic, Rania Siatri, Yin Leng Theng, Giannis Tsakonas and Lee Zia

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures and tables, Pages vii-x
About the contributors, Pages xi-xviii
List of abbreviations, Pages xix-xx
Preface, Pages xxi-xxiv
1 - Introduction: the framework for digital library evaluation, Pages 1-13, Tefko Saracevic
2 - From usage to user: library metrics and expectations for the evaluation of digital libraries, Pages 17-39, Brinley Franklin, Martha Kyrillidou, Terry Plum
3 - An agency perspective on digital library evaluation, Pages 41-59, Michael Khoo, David McArthur, Lee Zia
4 - What should we take into consideration when we talk about usability?, Pages 63-73, Judy Jeng
5 - Users and digital libraries: an insightful story, Pages 75-92, Emmanouel Garoufallou, Rania Siatri, Richard J. Hartley
6 - Towards an infrastructure for digital library performance evaluation, Pages 93-120, Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro
7 - Employing deep log analysis to evaluate the information-seeking behaviour of users of digital libraries, Pages 121-146, David Nicholas
8 - The pushmepullyou of design and evaluation, Pages 149-171, Ann Blandford, David Bainbridge
9 - Extending borders: outcomes assessment in the era of digital libraries, Pages 173-186, Giannis Tsakonas, Christos Papatheodorou
10 - Digital library service quality: what does it look like?, Pages 187-214, Martha Kyrillidou, Colleen Cook, Yvonna Lincoln
11 - Planning digital library evaluation with logic models, Pages 217-234, Michael Khoo, Sarah Giersch
12 - Examining how end users use and perceive digital libraries: a qualitative approach, Pages 235-252, Maria Monopoli
13 - Investigating users’ perceptions and acceptance of digital libraries: a quantitative approach, Pages 253-272, Yin-Leng Theng
Index, Pages 273-275

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