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Opening The Front Door: Designing A Usable Library Web Site, Andrew Keck
Opening The Front Door: Designing A Usable Library Web Site, Andrew Keck
Faculty Publications
The library website is a significant access point to a library’s collections, resources, and services. A website can and should provide information about the library in a way that can be efficiently navigated and used by all library patrons. The usability of a library website can be improved through changes in organization and design informed by the experiences of real users. User expectations should be primary in determining the content, purpose, organization, and design of the site.
Enhancing Women's Studies Action Research Projects Through Technology, Lucretia Mcculley
Enhancing Women's Studies Action Research Projects Through Technology, Lucretia Mcculley
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
This article describes how library and Internet technology enhanced an action research assignment in a unique women’s studies program, Women Involved in Living and Learning (WILL), at the University of Richmond. The Women’s Studies Liaison Librarian and the Director of the WILL Program collaborated to provide a meaningful assignment that incorporated the use of online databases and the Internet. The main objective of the assignment was to provide a research opportunity whereby the students would learn to use electronic women’s studies resources and actually utilize the information into some type of social action, such as writing a letter, volunteering in …