User Experience (UX) Design for Libraries

摘要

The title is slightly misleading; this is not about library usability per se, but the usability of the library's web site. Once that is understood, the audience of the book becomes much clearer. The authors are experienced in the art and science of evaluating web sites and are willing to pass on their inside knowledge of what works and what does not. A few telling points will go a long way. The majority of library web sites are too big, they say, and that is hard to argue with if one thinks about sites that we know. Cutting the size of the site by removing content best put elsewhere, in an intranet, for example, would make the site much easier to navigate.