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Online Issues Are Global, Carol Tenopir
Online Issues Are Global, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
THE INFORMATION INDUSTRY is international. With major English-language online publishers based in the Netherlands, Germany, and Canada (not to mention Alabama and New York), the information you lease may be generated and designed anywhere in the world. Likewise, the issues and challenges facing libraries as they move to large-scale digital collections are global in nature.
Conferences about digital libraries are also international; in September I attended "Digilib: Towards a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries" in Finland. Two hundred attendees from over 20 countries discussed how to gather user information for the purpose of designing more useful digital libraries. Sessions were …
What User Studies Tell Us, Carol Tenopir
What User Studies Tell Us, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Valid conclusions about user behavior should only be made within the research method used by each study. For example, if a researcher interviews academic faculty to determine if they prefer print or electronic sources, the conclusions should only state what faculty prefer, not what faculty actually use.