In early 2010, library staff at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Ohio designed and
conducted a usability study of key parts of the library web site, focusing on the web pages …

Have Internet search engines influenced the way students search library Web pages? The
results of this usability study reveal that students consistently and frequently use the library …

A well-designed and user-friendly Web site is essential with the large and rapid increase in
the number of off-campus users. Web site usability studies can help ensure that libraries …

Starting in summer 2011, two librarians at Wesleyan University annually interviewed and
directed usability studies with undergraduate students to determine how students interact …

Usability testing on library search tools was conducted with ten students and eighteen library
staff members at Syracuse University. The study addressed three research questions:(1) Do …

In an exploratory study, participants (n= 18) completed 11 usability tasks to assess ease of
use of two Web sites, and then a Web site perception questionnaire for each. Participants …

The authors adapted Web usability techniques to assess student awareness of their library's
Web site. Students performed search tasks using a Web browser. Approaches were …

Librarians have not traditionally been the developers of iiifurnuition retrieval systems.
However, with the growth of the World Wide Weh and online knowledge management …

A survey of the 113 academic libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) was
administered to investigate whether Web usability Policies/Standards/Guidelines (PSGs) are …

The researchers conducted a task-based usability test of the effectiveness of online research
beginning on the library Web site homepage. The participants included five university faculty …