Digital libraries (DLs) have been evaluated implicitly by analyzing the query behavior extracted from the log files (LFs), and explicitly by conducting user studies and usability tests. Unfortunately, such approaches do not fully assess the quality of the user experience (UX). Recently, UX is gaining momentum as a critical success factor across all sectors and became the ultimate criterion to guide user‐centered design. This is why we describe how the Mahlke's interaction UX framework can be adapted to the DL. We conducted a laboratory user study with 65 undergraduate students. Three data collection tools were considered: questionnaires, screen recording, and pick‐a‐mode scale. The findings of the study indicate that considering the UX when evaluating the DL provides useful insights of different aspects of the user interactions, perceptions and affective variables. The need to improve the DL system and simplify its interface still persists. Revisiting interfaces by implementing visualizing techniques is a possible solution.

This paper addresses the principal considerations in creating the Arabic Corpus of Library and Information Science, a specialized Arabic corpus on the academic genre. This discusses ten phases of creation: the rationale of the Arabic Corpus of Library and Information Science, types of texts, resources of texts, legal approval, data collection, refining texts, revising texts, saving texts, coding texts, and finally, the size of the Arabic Corpus of Library and Information Science (357,485 tokens). Collecting texts of the articles was the longest and most challenging phase of building the corpus. Especially when we encounter files in PDFs or images that are difficult to read 100% correctly by various software. This challenge has been overcome by considering several factors that have been clarified at this stage. The Arabic Corpus of Library and Information Science can play a significant role in addressing the salient features of the academic genre, including keywords identification, lexico-grammatical patterns, themes, topics, and index terms used in the genre of Library and Information Science. Furthermore, the steps of creating the Arabic Corpus of Library and Information Science can guide in building other corpora for any genre or language.