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Evaluation of Digital Libraries: An insight into useful applications and methods

Edited by Giannis Tsakonas, University of Patras and Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, Greece

Chandos Information Professional Series

The librarian interested in exploring how to carry out the evaluation of the library’s digital offerings will find a guide to help them ask the right questions to advance further. …an interesting set of contributions on the subject of evaluating digital libraries.
Information Research

 - the book deals with practical and theoretical issues on digital libraries development and evaluation
 - it will be multi-disciplinary due to its nature incorporating views and perspectives of various contributing fields
 - distinguished digital library researchers and practitioners present systematically methods, techniques and practices. The list of contributors include Maristella Agosti, David Bainbridge, Ann Blandford, Colleen Cook, Nicola Ferro, Brinley Franklin, Manolis Garoufallou, Sarah Giersch, Richard Hartley, Judy Jeng, Michael Khoo, Martha Kyrillidou, Yvonna Lincoln, David McArthur, Maria Monopoli, David Nicholas, Christos Papatheodorou, Terry Plum, Tefko Saracevic, Rania Siatri, Yin Leng Theng, Giannis Tsakonas and Lee Zia

Evaluation of Digital Libraries summarizes research and practice on both sides of the Atlantic and aims to answer the potential questions that both the theoretical and practical areas of digital library evaluation have posed during recent years. The book systematically presents aspects of participating communities, reasons and aims of evaluation, methodologies and metrics, and application paradigms.

Readership: Practitioners, who need to evaluate digital library applications, as well as to researchers in the area of digital libraries. However, the book also addresses the needs of under-graduate and post-graduate students of Library, Information Science and Computer Science courses.

£52.50 / US$90.00 / €65.00

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About the editors

Giannis Tsakonas holds a BSc and a PhD in librarianship from the Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Corfu. Currently he works as a librarian in the Library & Information Center, University of Patras.

Christos Papatheodorou holds a BSc. and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.

Titles which may also be of interest:
A Handbook of Digital Library Economics
Digital Library Economics
The Evaluation of Worldwide Digital Reference Services in Libraries
Digital Libraries
Digital Libraries and the Challenges of Digital Humanities

Contents

PART 1 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
PART 2 WHAT TO PLACE UNDER THE EVALUATION LENS
PART 3 BEHIND THE EVALUATION CURTAIN
PART 4 HOW TO CONDUCT AN EVALUATION ACTIVITY

Introduction: the framework for digital library evaluation
Tefko Saracevic

PART 1 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

From usage to user: library metrics and expectations for the evaluation of digital libraries
Brinley Franklin, Martha Kyrillidou and Terry Plum

An agency perspective on digital library evaluation
Michael Khoo, David McArthur and Lee Zia

PART 2 WHAT TO PLACE UNDER THE EVALUATION LENS

What should we take into consideration when we talk about usability?
Judy Jeng

Users and digital libraries: an insightful story
Emmanouel Garoufallou, Rania Siatri and Richard J. Hartley

Towards an infrastructure for digital library performance evaluation
Maristella Agosti and Nicola Ferro

Employing deep log analysis to evaluate the information-seeking behaviour of users of digital libraries
David Nicholas

PART 3 BEHIND THE EVALUATION CURTAIN

The push-me-pull-you of design and evaluation
Ann Blandford and David Bainbridge

Extending borders: outcomes assessment in the era of digital libraries
Giannis Tsakonas and Christos Papatheodorou

Digital library service quality: what does it look like?
Martha Kyrillidou, Colleen Cook and Yvonna Lincoln

PART 4 HOW TO CONDUCT AN EVALUATION ACTIVITY

Planning digital library evaluation with logic models
Michael Khoo and Sarah Giersch

Examining how end users use and perceive digital libraries: a qualitative approach
Maria Monopoli

Investigating users’ perceptions and acceptance of digital libraries: a quantitative approach
Yin-Leng Theng