A. Kadir, Razilan and Wan Dollah, Wan Ab. Kadir and Jamaludin, Adnan and Singh, Diljot (2011) Usability evaluation dimension for academic digital libraries: a review/ Razilan A. Kadir ...[et al.]. Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM), 1 (1). pp. 55-68. ISSN 2231-8836 ; E-ISSN:2289-5337
Abstract
Explosion in information and information system (JS) technology has brought dramatic changes in learning and library system environments. Through the passage from physical library to digital library era, the use of academic digital library systems do witness spectacular impact on academic societies' way of performing their study/research. Thus, evaluating the system is of paramount importance in understanding how useful it is and how it can be beneficial for its targeted community. Usability design approach is widely used in the literature for evaluating digital libraries. In this article, we review and examine the usability dimensions in usability evaluation for digital libraries. Based on the literature, usability engineering model is one of usability models applied in the context of human-computer-interaction basis. This article reviews on this usability engineering model that defines interface usability dimensions idea together with its extended version to organizational usability dimension. Both of these usability dimensions, interface and organizational, are potential in evaluating academic digital library, from the perspective of the users' requirements, as well as from the academic institutions' requirements
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Item Type: | Article |
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Creators: | Creators Email / ID Num. A. Kadir, Razilan UNSPECIFIED Wan Dollah, Wan Ab. Kadir UNSPECIFIED Jamaludin, Adnan UNSPECIFIED Singh, Diljot dijlit@um.edu.my |
Subjects: | Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Library Science. Information Science Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > University and college. Academic libraries Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Library Science. Information Science > Classes of libraries > Academic libraries Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources (General) > Information services. Information centers |
Divisions: | Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor > Puncak Perdana Campus > Faculty of Information Management |
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM) |
UiTM Journal Collections: | UiTM Journal > International Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM) |
ISSN: | 2231-8836 ; E-ISSN:2289-5337 |
Volume: | 1 |
Number: | 1 |
Page Range: | pp. 55-68 |
Keywords: | Academic Digital Library, Usability Evaluation, Usability Dimensions, Interface Usability, Organizational Usability |
Date: | 2011 |
URI: | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/52104 |