This week’s usable library is: Whittier College What I like: Intuitive home page Finding full text articles visually explains how to read an article Services and support page is clearly divided into student and faculty menus
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Usable Library of the Week – Garfield County
This week’s usable library is: Garfield County Public Library, CO What I like: Research Databases page questions: “What is a database?” and “Can’t I find this stuff on the Internet?” Books and more page highlights “Ebooks available now” and links to good e-book help pages Kids page is vibrant and fun, with big colorful…
Continue readingJournals, articles, and databases: Guiding users through the e-resource maze
My library recently launched a new user-friendly journals page. This page (which I did not create – credit goes to my talented colleagues!) is a great improvement over the previous design. It has started me thinking about some of the challenges libraries face when providing e-resource access points. Academic library web sites usually have pages labeled…
Continue readingUsable Library of the Week – Montana State University
This week’s usable library is: Montana State University What I like: Simple, understandable home page design: “Find” “Request” and “Services” Jargon-free: ILL is under “Request” Articles page subjects list: “I want to do research in…”
Continue readingUsable Library of the Week: Queens Library
This week’s usable library is: Queens Library, NY What I like: Site and catalog are searchable together from a single search box Book search results display in site, not in catalog silo (using their homegrown ILS) “Entertainment” tab describes all audio/visual formats Amazon-like social features: e.g. “recently borrowed”
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