Testing the Design of a Library Information Gateway

W. Bede Mitchell; Laura B. Davidson; Rebecca Ziegler; Ann Viles

Testing the Design of a Library Information Gateway

W. Bede Mitchell, Laura B. Davidson, Rebecca Ziegler, Ann Viles

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Abstract

In autumn of 1999, librarians at Appalachian State University and Georgia Southern University had decided to revise their Web sites. Each institution’s site had been in place for more than a year, and experience with library users had shown that there were certain aspects of the sites’ designs that were confusing. Previous efforts to improve these library sites had involved the pooling of criticisms from the librarians and users, and then a small group of library faculty and staff would attempt to create new designs that avoided the weaknesses of the old designs.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Crossing the Divide: Proceedings of the Association of College and Research Libraries National Conference
State	Published - Mar 15 2001

Disciplines

Higher Education
Library and Information Science

Keywords

Academic libraries
Appalachian State University
Georgia Southern University
Information literacy
Library websites
User-Centered Usability Testing

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