"The sites of major media organizations--CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others--provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economics, use…
"The websites of major media organizations -- CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others -- provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economi…
What is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authors an architect, four librarians, and a professor of art history and classics explore these questions thi…
"The primary purpose of this book is to provide a statistical resource for those who measure the behavior and attitudes of people as they interact with interfaces. The focus is on methods applicable to practical user research, based on our experience, investigations, and reviews…
"The rise of Google as the dominant Internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in the moral sense of the verb, be accessible through search. In this theoretically nuanced study of search technol…
Describes Web site usability through critiques of real-world sites, covering such factors as legibility, navigability, searchability, and design.
Embedded librarianship, in which librarians partner with groups to identify information sources in knowledge-intensive projects, is not a new concept, but Shumaker draws on his research to identify the characteristics, principles, and best practices of successful embedded librar…
With The Rapid Increase the use of electronic resources in libraries, managing access to online information is an area many librarians struggle with. Managers of online information wish to implement policies about who can access the information and under what terms and condition…
This book provides practical guidance to ensuring that your users can access and personalise the online resources they are entitled to use with the minimum of fuss.
Based on one of the largest studies of eyetracking usability in existence used rigorous methodology and eyetracking technology to analyze 1.5 million instances where users look at Web sites. Their findings will help designers, software developers, writers, editors, product manag…
