Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians

✍ Scribed by Rebecca Blakiston

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Series: Practical Guides for Librarians
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Do you want to improve the usability of your library website, but feel that it is too difficult, time-consuming, or expensive? In this book, you will learn that in-house usability testing on a budget is not only feasible, but it is practical, sustainable, and has the potential to lead to remarkable improvements of the content, design, and layout of your website.
Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians will teach you how to:

Make the case for usability testing

Define your audience and their goals

Select a usability testing method appropriate for your particular context

Plan for an in-house usability test

Conduct an effective in-house usability test

Analyze usability test results and make decisions based on those results

Create and implement a plan for ongoing, systematic usability testing

Step-by-step instructions, along with a myriad of examples, allow you to use this book as a practical guide, and adapt the techniques for your own context. Techniques are appropriate for libraries of all types, including academic, public, and special libraries.

✦ Subjects

Language Arts; Nonfiction; LAN025000; LAN025060

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Usability Testing for Library Websites:

📁 Usability Testing for Library Websites: A Hands-On Guide

✍ Elaina Norlin, CM! Winters 📂 Library 📅 2000 🏛 ALA Editions 🌐 English

How good is your library's Website? Unless you're the librarian who set them up, online library services can be hard to navigate. In fact, many users give up in frustration without ever finding what they're looking for. Nowadays, many of the search and retrieval services that previously were databas

Usability Testing for Library Websites:

📁 Usability Testing for Library Websites: A Hands-On Guide

✍ Elaina Norlin, CM! Winters 📂 Library 📅 2000 🌐 English

Library Volunteers: A Practical Guide fo

📁 Library Volunteers: A Practical Guide for Librarians

✍ Allison Renner 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 🌐 English

Volunteers are one of the most overlooked and underused resources available to nonprofits and other organizations. This guide will help find willing volunteers in the community and utilize their skills in a way that benefits the volunteer as well as the organization. Overseeing volunteers can be a d

Library Management: A Practical Guide fo

📁 Library Management: A Practical Guide for Librarians

✍ Bridgit McCafferty 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 🌐 English

<p>Most professional librarians, even recent graduates, manage something, whether it be a project, service, department, or a whole library. This book explains the different managerial roles at libraries, looking at the levels of managers, what they do, and how they do it. The goal is to explore the

Video Marketing for Libraries: A Practic

📁 Video Marketing for Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians

✍ Heather A. Dalal, Robin O'Hanlon, Karen L. Yacobucci 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 🌐 English

Today's libraries need to market their resources and services more than ever. Libraries can strengthen their relationships with their users and gain new audiences by creating their own promotional videos. However, creating marketing videos can be intimidating for beginners and challenging for even s

Making Library Websites Accessible: A Pr

📁 Making Library Websites Accessible: A Practical Guide for Librarians

✍ Laura Francabandera 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 🌐 English

Every person has the right to access information and the right to succeed, regardless of their capabilities or the challenges they face. These challenges can be even more difficult when accessing information online. Libraries often adopt new web technologies in an effort to quickly and widely promot