Understanding User’s Experiences: Evaluation of Digital Libraries Page 1 Understanding User’s
Experiences: Evaluation of Digital Libraries Ann Blandford University College London Page 2 …

Cultural heritage digital libraries have a range of users including professionals;“digital
natives” as well as general users. Their motivation and needs differ and one of the …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to describe the findings of a survey promoted and
financed by Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale about users' perceptions of digital libraries in …

Presents the results of a questionnaire survey of non-users of the digital library services at
the Università degli Studi di Milano. The target audience for the survey comprised students …

Digital libraries (DLs) are complex information systems and, as such, they are operated by or
involve humans. They are used by people with real needs, competencies, experiences and …

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of works on digital library evaluation that
included data. The approach was first to analyze and then isolate (or even deconstruct) …

The purpose is to provide a critical synthesis of works on digital library evaluation that
included data. Over 80 evaluation studies are analyzed as to evaluation:(1) constructs,(2) …

Usability of digital libraries is an essential factor for the user attraction. Europeana, a digital
library which is built around the idea to provide a single access point to the European …

In the past two decades, the use of digital libraries (DLs) has grown significantly.
Accordingly, questions about the utility, usability and cost of DLs have started to arise, and …

The refinement of e-metrics by librarians to evaluate the use of library resources and
services has rapidly matured into a set of standardised tools and shared understandings …