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Preface - Tom Wilson 1. Introduction: user studies for digital library development - Milena Dobreva, Andy O’Dwyer and Pierluigi FeliciatiPART 1: SETTING THE SCENE 2. Models that inform digital library design - Elaine G Toms 3. User-centric studies - Sudatta Chowdhury 4. Design issues and user needs - Petar Mihaylov 5. Users within the evaluation of digital libraries - Giannis TsakonasPART 2: METHODS EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED 6. Questionnaires, interviews and focus groups as means for user engagement with evaluation of digital libraries - Jillian R Griffiths 7. Expert evaluation methods - Claus-Peter Klas 8. Evidence of user behaviour: deep log analysis - David Nicholas and David Clark 9. An eye-tracking approach to the evaluation of digital libraries - Panos Balatsoukas 10 Personas - Katja Guldbæk Rasmussen and Gitte PetersenPART 3: USER STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL LIBRARY UNIVERSE: WHAT ELSE NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED? 11. User-related issues in multilingual access to multimedia collections - Paul Clough 12. Children and digital libraries - Ian Ruthven, Monica Landoni and Andreas Lingnau 13. User engagement and social media - Jeffery K Guin 14. Significant others: user studies and digital preservation - Kathleen Menzies and Duncan Birrell 15. The shift to mobile devices - Lina Petrakieva 16. Resource discovery for research and course design - Zsuzsanna Varga 17. Support for users within an educational or e-learning context - Nicola OsbornePART 4: USER STUDIES ACROSS THE CULTURAL HERITAGE SECTOR 18. User studies in libraries - Derek Law 19. User studies in archives - Wendy M Duff 20. User studies in museums: holding the museum in the palm of your hand - Susan Hazan 21. Digital art online: perspectives on user needs, access, documentation and retrieval - Leo Konstantelos 22. User studies for digital libraries’ development: audiovisual collections - Andy O’Dwyer 23. A business-model perspective on end-users and open metadata - Harry Verwayen and Martijn ArnoldusPART 5: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER 24. And now … to the brave real world - Milena Dobreva, Andy O’Dwyer and Pierluigi Feliciati
About the author
Dr. Milena Dobreva specialized in digital humanities and digital cultural heritage in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences where she earned her PhD in 1999 and served as the Founding Head of the first Digitisation Centre in Bulgaria (2004); she was also a member on the Executive Board of the National Commission of UNESCO. In 2007 she was a guest researcher at the University of Glasgow contributing to the DELOS network of excellence in digital libraries. In 2008–2011 she worked at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and served as the principal investigator for projects in digital preservation and digital libraries funded by the European Commission, JISC, Europeana Foundation, and the Scottish Funding Council. In 2012–2017 Milena was an Associate Professor at the University of Malta. As a Head of the Department of Library Information and Archive Sciences she spearheaded the redesign of the departmental programmes, extended them with a Master’s course and supervised the first Maltese Master graduates in Library and Information Studies. Milena is a member of the editorial board of the IFLA Journal, and of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) and is the co-editor of User Studies for Digital Library Development (Facet, 2012).
Summary
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.
