An Assessment of the Current State of Digital Library Evaluation
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Long, Holley
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- This study describes the results of an assessment of the current state of digital library evaluation. Representatives from eleven digital library teams that have conducted an assessment were interviewed to determine what motivates an evaluation and how it is defined and carried out. The study also examines these evaluation case studies for characteristics of longevity, adaptability, and triangulation. Identifying the user population and their information needs were most commonly cited as the reasons for undertaking an evaluation. Objectives ranged from improved interface and information retrieval functions to collection management. Methodologies included online surveys, transaction log analysis, and usability testing. Only two of the eleven digital library projects interviewed have conducted long term evaluations. Several of the projects displayed characteristics of adaptiveness in that lessons learned from one evaluation were applied to other digital library assessments. Half of the four evaluations teams that used more than one methodology analyzed the resulting data using triangulation.
- Date of publication
- 2002
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- Advisor
- Wildemuth, Barbara
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 44 p.
- Access right
- Open access
- Date uploaded
- December 10, 2010
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