Milena Dobreva

Andy O'Dwyer

Pierluigi Feliciati

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. Readership: Information professionals involved in supporting, developing or designing digital library services, researchers wanting to address the user dimension in their work and students on LIS and computer science courses who want to understand the importance of the user in information services.

User Studies for Digital Library Development

Jan Engelen

Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (1970- ). ESAT-SCD Research Group on Document Architectures

This book contains over sixty papers on the many aspects of Electronic Publishing that have been written specifically for the 9th ELPUB conference hosted by the Research Group on Document Architectures (Jan Engelen) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. They have been refereed by the International Programme Committee consisting of 34 highly qualified experts with a wide variety of backgrounds and expertise domains. This committee was presided by Milena Dobreva of the Bulgarian Institute of Mathematics and Informatics. The major general topics covered are: Libraries and Scholarly Communication, Scholarly Publishing, Open Access, Humanities and Electronic Publishing and Electronic Publishing in a more general Societal and Economic Context. In the technical track specialised contributions can be found in the field of: Innovative Approaches, Mark-up Languages, Multilingual Issues, E-publishing for Reading Impaired Users and Web Content Management.

Challenges for the Digital Content Chain

From Author to Reader

Giannis Tsakonas

Christos Papatheodorou

Trond Aalberg

Charles J. Farrugia

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2013 (formerly European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL) held in Valletta, Malta, in September 2013. The 24 full papers, 13 short papers, 22 posters and 8 demonstrations presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of research topics, clustered in four broader areas: foundation, infrastructures, content, and services. They have been organized in topical sections on conceptual models and formal issues, aggregation and archiving, user behavior, digital curation, mining and extraction, architectures and interoperability, interfaces to digital libraries, semantic web, information retrieval and browsing, and preservation. Also included are 6 tutorials and 2 panels.

International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2013, Valletta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013, Proceedings

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

Maja Žumer

Annika Hinze

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2018, held in Hamilton, New Zealand, in November 2018. The 20 full, 6 short, and 11 work in progress papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: topic modeling and semantic analysis; social media, web, and news; heritage and localization; user experience; digital library technology; and use cases and digital librarianship.

20th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2018, Hamilton, New Zealand, November 19-22, 2018, Proceedings

Maturity and Innovation in Digital Libraries

Mahendra Mahey

Abigail Potter

A Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) Lab is a place for experimenting with digital collections and data. This book describes how to open a GLAM Lab and encourages a movement that can transform organisations and communities.

Open a GLAM Lab

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