A Literature Review of Academic Library Web Page Studies

Blummer, Barbara

doi:10.1300/j502v01n01_04

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“…Her article provides an overview of the goals and outcomes of early library-website usability studies. 1 More recent articles focus on a portion or aspect of a library's website such as the homepage, federated search or discovery tool, or subject guides. Fagan published an article in 2010 that reviews user studies of faceted browsing and outlines several best practices for designing studies that focus on next-generation catalogs or discovery tools.…”

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Everyone’s Invited: A Website Usability Study Involving Multiple Library Stakeholders

Azadbakht

Blair

Jones

2017

ITAL

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Everyone’s Invited: A Website Usability Study Involving Multiple Library Stakeholders

Azadbakht

Blair

Jones

2017

ITAL

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“…Methodology A qualitative method and experimental research strategies were chosen, following a thorough review of the literature on adhering to guidelines of usability evaluations (Fagan, 2010;Olvera-Lobo et al, 2012) and current and retrospective studies such as Neilsen and Landauer (1993a, 1993b, 1999, VandeCreek (2005), George (2008) and Blummer (2007). Following careful reviews of several user-centered design methods, including those by Kim, 2011 andOlvera-lobo et al, 2012, and consistent with the aims of the project, three approaches were selected: questionnaires, focus groups and usability tests.…”

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confidence: 99%

An assessment of the usability of the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica) Main Library’s website

Duncan

Durrant

2015

The Electronic Library

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Purpose -The purpose of this study is to provide an assessment of the usability of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Main Library's Web site by Master of Arts students of the Department of Library and Information Studies (D.L.I.S.) for the identification of major strengths and weaknesses of the site and to incorporate the results and participant feedback into a redesign that reflects users' intuitions rather than those of the site developers and library staff. Design/methodology/approach -One method was used to collect data; Observation. Its instruments included a list of activities executed by students followed by a checklist, which reflected day-to-day usage of the Main Library's Web site by Master of Arts students in the D.L.I.S. In addition, both usability heuristics and International Standards Organisation (ISO) guidelines were used to assess effectiveness, learnability, usefulness, functionality, navigability and user satisfaction. Respondent strategies used a sample size of five participants in the focus group sessions. Experimental strategies combined observation of five individual participants who performed the usability tests. Findings -The findings identified challenges in the site's navigation, user satisfaction and learnability. Research limitations/implications -There can be further assessment, as this study did not speak specifically to students with disabilities or took into consideration the views of the librarians. Additionally, more ethnographic approaches are required to elicit distinctive Caribbean user behaviors. Practical implications -The study concludes that usability training should be incorporated into the culture of the library organization as well as more usability testing needs to be done on a more regular basis and on a more student interactive basis. Originality/value -The paper presents issues of usability and the impact of technology on information access, memorability, learnability and functionality of an academic library's Web site.

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“…As Barbara A. Blummer (2007) noted, these have been infrequently conducted. Examples of such studies include those by Mark Stover and Steven D. Zink (1996), David King (1998), andPamela Harpel-Burke (2005).…”

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Library Homepage Design at Medium-Sized Institutions

Jones

Thorpe

2014

Journal of Web Librarianship

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This study sought to describe and analyze the home pages of academic library Web sites at 313 mediumsized bachelor's and master's general institutions. The authors evaluated an unprecedented number of library home pages for the presence of 118 design elements and reported common and uncommon design practices at these libraries. They found 21 elements present on at least half of the home pages studied.Seven of these occurred on at least 80 percent of the pages studied: links to the university home page, library hours, images, portals by subject or links to subject guides, links to interlibrary loan services,

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A Literature Review of Academic Library Web Page Studies

Cited by 29 publications

References 26 publications

Everyone’s Invited: A Website Usability Study Involving Multiple Library Stakeholders

Everyone’s Invited: A Website Usability Study Involving Multiple Library Stakeholders

An assessment of the usability of the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica) Main Library’s website

Library Homepage Design at Medium-Sized Institutions

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