Evaluation of digital libraries : an insight into useful applications and methods / edited by Giannis Tsakonas and Christos Papatheodorou.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the framework for digital library evaluation -- Part 1 To whom it may concern: From usage to user: library metrics and expectations for the evaluation of digital libraries -- An agency perspective on digital library evaluation -- Part 2 What to place under the evaluation lens: What should we take into consideration when we talk about usability? -- Users and digital libraries: an insightful story -- Towards an infrastructure for digital library performance evaluation -- Employing deep log analysis to evaluate the information-seeking behaviour of users of digital libraries -- Part 3 Behind the evaluation curtain: The pushmepullyou of design and evaluation -- Extending borders: outcomes assessment in the era of digital libraries -- Digital library service quality: what does it look like? Part 4 How to conduct an evaluation activity: Planning digital library evaluation with logic models -- Examining how end users use and perceive digital libraries: a qualitative approach -- Investigating users' perceptions and acceptance of digital libraries: a quantitative approach.

Evaluation of Digital Libraries summarizes research and practice on both sides of the Atlantic and aims to answer the potential questions that both the theoretical and practical areas of digital library evaluation have posed during recent years. The book systematically presents aspects of participating communities, reasons and aims of evaluation, methodologies and metrics, and application paradigms.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 19, 2019).