Muddiest Point #9

We talked about evaluations this week: any examples of DLs that changed because of evaluations? I wasn't sure if Tufts and the others you mentioned around the 2 hour mark of lecture fit this bill.
In theory DLs should be easier to adapt/modify based on user critiques than brick and mortar libraries, or does most of this take place in testing/beta prior to the launch?

Week Ten Readings

All libraries are for and serve a specified population, even if they are digital. We were introduced to this in week one, but we’ve been ignoring it since… until now.

You can find the Arms chapter here, as Blackboard has the wrong URL. Panel 8.1 in particular is useful, a nice glossary of terms we’ll be using this week.

Kling and Elliot eloquently and succinctly make their point that one should not use a one size fits all model when designing a digital library. This article was a welcome breath of social science in this course. It’s nice to read something I fully understand.

Saracevic (pdf) asks why DLs aren’t really evaluated (although they will be in this class) and examines some of the evaluations out there. It’s a bit dry, but the points are well-made.

Finally, it’s ironic that all this week is about usability and how things look, but only the final reading (Sheiderman and Plaisant) has pictures. More of those would have been useful, especially in the Arms chapter.