Yin Leng Theng
ABSTRACT
A preliminary study was conducted to help understand the purpose of digital libraries (DLs) and to investigate whether meaningful results could be obtained from small user studies of digital libraries. Results stress the importance of mental models, and of "traditional" library support.
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Index Terms
- Purpose and usability of digital libraries
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