Discovering Scholarly Resources

Discovering scholarly resources the student experience Julia Gross & Lutie Sheridan Edith Cowan University Library

What we wanted to know…How easy was it to navigate on the new library website?How did students use Library OneSearch?How did they approach the search topics?What issues arose?

Library site 2010

Library site 2011

Methodology - usability • 5 first year students • Computing & Library • Students conducted searches

Observation study • Screen captured • Microphone • Webcam

What did we discover ?

Library site 2010

Library site 2011

Student Portal Library site 2010

Student Record

Student Portal

Library One Search

What we found out…How easy was it to navigate on the new library website?How did students use Library OneSearch?How did they approach the search topics?What issues arose?

Acknowledgement --Barbara Combes and her students at ECU

Questions? Thankyou

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Discovering Scholarly Resources

by Julia Gross on May 03, 2011

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