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Studying digital library users in the wild: theories, methods, and analytical approaches

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As digital libraries continue the transition from research to operational status, understanding how they impact on the educational and learning practices of their users becomes an increasingly important objective for both library developers and evaluators. This workshop will examine the theoretical and methodological issues involved in the qualitative, naturalistic, and/or longitudinal study of the users of digital libraries. It will focus on the methodologies that can be used to capture the behaviors of digital library users, and the theoretical frameworks that can be used to analyze these behaviors, including ethnography, ethnomethodology, grounded theory, discourse analysis, scenarios, in-depth interviews and focus groups.

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A. Bishop, N. Van House, and B. Buttenfield, "Digital library use: Social Practice in design and evaluation." Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
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E. Hutchins, Cognition in the wild. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995.

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cover image ACM Conferences
JCDL '05: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
June 2005
450 pages
ISBN:1581138768
DOI:10.1145/1065385
  • General Chair:
  • Mary Marlino,
  • Program Chairs:
  • Tamara Sumner,
  • Frank Shipman
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Published: 07 June 2005

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  1. qualitative research methods
  2. sociotechnical theory

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  • (2009)How to Learn from Intelligent Products; The Structuring of Incoherent Field Feedback Data in Two Case StudiesProceedings of the Symposium on Human Interface 2009 on ConferenceUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Part I: Held as Part of HCI International 200910.1007/978-3-642-02556-3_26(227-232)Online publication date: 14-Jul-2009

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