Digital Library Requirements: a Questionnaire-based Study

User requirements can break or make any project. The gathering of user requirements is a key avenue for gaining a deeper understanding of the needs evolving from the user's operational context and from the use of the system. User requirements are pivotal in guiding the development (and evaluation) process of any system. This is no less true in the arena of digital libraries. The gathering of digital library requirements should be carried out with the understanding that the anticipated digital library user interface should accord support to the user throughout the entire digital library usage/interaction process. This paper describes an investigation of digital library requirements based on the foregoing understanding.