Optimizing Discovery Systems to Improve User Experience: The Innovative Librarian's Guide

by
Bonnie Imlerauthor
Michelle Eichelbergerauthor
Optimizing Discovery Systems to Improve User Experience: The Innovative Librarian's Guide

20170531

Libraries Unlimited

Pages 150
Topics Information Systems and Technology

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Optimizing Discovery Systems to Improve User Experience: The Innovative Librarian's Guide

Author(s): Imler, Bonnie; Eichelberger, Michelle;
Contributors: Imler, Bonnie; Eichelberger, Michelle;
Abstract:

Two authors with more than 40 years of combined library experience tap into their wealth of knowledge about discovery and user experience, sharing proven methods for setting up, promoting, and teaching their own discovery systems.


• Provides a comprehensive guide that helps librarians make a library discovery system work better for their specific community

• Examines how system design and careful fine-tuning can greatly improve system efficacy

• Explains how usability and user experience studies should be used to assess and evaluate system performance

• Describes how to use UX data to inform tutorials and instruction for more efficient patron research

SortTitle: optimizing discovery systems to improve user experience: the innovative librarian's guide
Author Info:
Bonnie Imlerauthor
Michelle Eichelbergerauthor
eISBN-13: 9781440843839
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Print ISBN-13: 9781440843822
Imprint: Libraries Unlimited
Pages: 150
Publication Date: 20170531
Series: Innovative Librarian's Guide