If digital libraries are to achieve their full potential, they need to be usable and used–by
people for whom information retrieval is not generally the main goal. In this paper, we outline …

The issue of usability has concerned the Digital Libraries community, at least peripherally,
over many years. There is, after all, little point in delivering sophisticated libraries with novel …

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 …

Digital libraries continue to flourish. At the same time, the principles of user-centered design
and the practice of usability testing have been growing in popularity, spreading their …

Digital libraries must reach out to users from all walks of life, serving information needs at all
levels. To do this, they must attain high standards of usability over an extremely broad …

Digital libraries are on-line collections of heterogeneous information which are usually
maintained by some digital librarian. They pose interesting problems for design because of …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to determine user suggestions for digital libraries'
functionality and features. Design/methodology/approach–A survey was conducted as part …

The need for information systems to support the dissemination and reus e of educational
resources has sparked a number of large-scale digital library efforts. This article describes …

The aim of the work reported here was to better understand the usabili ty issues raised when
digital libraries are used in a natural setting. The method used was a protocol analysis of …

As current digital libraries are becoming more complex, the facilities provided by them will
increase and the difficulty of learning associated with the complexity of using these facilities …