| FEATURES
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Designing a Better
Subject Page to Make Users' Searches More Successful
The way we librarians had organized our subject pages made perfect
sense to us
but not to the students who had to use them. However, by watching
students search
on our pages, then reformatting them, then retesting and reformatting a
couple
more times, we ended up with pages that students could search much more
successfully.
By Darlene Fichter
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What We've Learned from
Doing Usability Testing on OpenURL Resolvers and Federated Search
Engines
While information professionals recognize the advantages of federated
search
tools, testing shows that, for many patrons, the concept doesn't work
as well
as you might think. It's somewhat of a conundrum.
By Frank Cervone
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Designing
a Web Site for One Imaginary Persona That Reflects the Needs of Many
We all know that "you can't please everybody." You also can't design a
Web site
that works well for everybody. What's the solution? Create an imaginary
persona
with the characteristics of your main user group, and focus on its
needs while
making design decisions. Sound far-fetched? Read this article and
decide for
yourself.
By Heather Cunningham |
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Using Participatory Design to
Improve Web Sites
One woman learned that the best way to improve her Web sites was to
involve the
people most likely to use them in the design. She walks readers through
the steps
of participatory design and tells how it differs from user-centered
design.
By Tatiana Nikolova-Houston |
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| COLUMNS |
The
Systems Librarian
Analyzing Web Server Logs to
Improve a Site's Usage
By Marshall Breeding |
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Computers
in Small Libraries
Include Your Patrons in Web
Design
By Gary Roberts |
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Coming
Full Circle
Closing the Circle
By Andrew K. Pace |
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Online
Treasures
Does Your Library's Web Site
Pass the Usability Test?
By Janet L. Balas |
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| DEPARTMENTS
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Editor's Notes
Our Brains Are Different
By Kathy Dempsey
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Newsline
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Newsline Reports
Check Your Tie at the Door and
Think Outside the Box at AusWeb05
By Terence K. Huwe
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ask techman
By D. Scott Brandt |
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| Noted
& Quoted |
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| Books
to Check Out |
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