International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Online text retrieval via browsing
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A mathematical model of the finding of usability problems
INTERCHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERCHI '93 conference on Human factors in computing systems
Communications of the ACM
Going digital: a look at assumptions underlying digital libraries
Communications of the ACM
Human-computer interaction
Information ecologies: using technology with heart
Information ecologies: using technology with heart
Navigation and browsing in hypertext
Hypertext: theory into practice
Purpose and usability of digital libraries
DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Use of multiple digital libraries: a case study
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Design Guidelines and User-Centred Digital Libraries
ECDL '99 Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Digital libraries' support for the user's 'information journey'
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Social empowerment and exclusion: A case study on digital libraries
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Interacting with information resources: digital libraries for education
International Journal of Learning Technology
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This paper reports a pilot study to investigate how good current digital libraries (DLs) are in helping users understand their own needs - a kind of information service or therapy traditionally provided by librarians in conventional libraries. A sample group of DLs and subjects were selected for this study. Findings indicate that this sample group of DLs, though providing some form of information therapy, could be more explicit in guiding subjects to understand their own needs and thus help them to accomplish their goals more effectively. Using this study as a basis, the paper highlights insights on how this important service currently provided by conventional libraries could be more efficiently and creatively provided in DLs.