Europeana is an international trusted digital initiative providing access, from a single entry
point, to prized collections from a number of European cultural institutions. Advanced …

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 …

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 …

Nowadays good usability is a “must have” of every online product. Also a modern digital
library (Library 2.0; see Maness, 2006) needs to assure an easy and effective handling of its …

Purpose–The main objective of this paper is to review work on the usability and impact of
digital libraries. Design/methodology/approach–Work on the usability and impact of digital …

New technologies create great opportunities as well as new challenges when libraries build
their virtual collections. As e-book readers and other portable devices grow in popularity …

In this paper we present a methodological framework for a usefulness evaluation of digital
libraries and information services that has been tested successfully in two case studies …

People use digital cultural heritage sites in different ways and for various purposes. In this
paper we explore what information people search for and why when using Europeana, one …

This study presents findings with a particular digital library system, the Belgian‐American
Research Collection at the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (UWDCC). It …

Since the mid-1990s, we have seen an explosive growth of digital libraries. We have also
observed an increased interest in the evaluation of digital libraries in recent years. The …