Santi Thompson
Greetings:
The bibliography sub-group of the DLF User Studies in Digital Libraries team is happy to release a bibliography, which focuses on three areas of digital library assessment:
Return on Investment
The sources in this section investigate how impactful digital libraries are, how to determine the cost and benefit of digital library creation, and how to measure the quality of digital library content.
Reuse
The sources in this section investigate what users do with the content they access in digital repositories. Scholarship assesses the impact of digitized primary source materials on research conducted by those in the humanities and the sciences, as well as everyday, "non-scholarly" users of digital repository content.
User
and Usability Studies
The sources in this section investigate users’
expectations, information needs and preferences, performance of common tasks, as
well as usability, interaction and interface design issues with various digital
libraries applications and contexts, including library websites, discovery
tools, digital repositories, e-books, and other electronic resources.
Readers
can access the bibliography as a Google document at the following link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AVlT3QlmhbcUmoRtZ0hpvEhpbD9_Eld5bHsa-JNHX24/edit?usp=sharing
The DLF User Studies in Digital Libraries team will draw upon this bibliography as it prepares future projects, including a white paper on digital library assessment.
Many thanks to the contributors of the bibliography: Tao Zhang, Elizabeth Joan Kelly, Liz Woolcott, Santi Thompson, and Rachel Trent
For updates on the work of the DLF User Studies in Digital Libraries team, please visit the DLF Assessment wiki: http://wiki.diglib.org/Assessment
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments.
Thanks so much!
-Santi
Santi
Thompson, Head of Digital Repository Services
University
Libraries
University
of Houston
A
Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university
713-743-9685
satho...@uh.edu