Purpose and usability of digital libraries

Authors:
Yin Leng Theng;Norliza Mohd-Nasir;Harold Thimbleby
Affiliations:
School of Computing Science, Middlesex University, Bounds Green Road, London N11 2NQ;School of Computing Science, Middlesex University, Bounds Green Road, London N11 2NQ;School of Computing Science, Middlesex University, Bounds Green Road, London N11 2NQ
Venue:
DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Year:
2000

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Abstract

A preliminary study was conducted to help understand the purpose of digital libraries (DLs) and to investigate whether meaningful results could be obtained from small user studies of digital libraries. Results stress the importance of mental models, and of "traditional" library support.