Purpose – This paper aimed to develop a usability evaluation model and associated survey tool in the context of academic libraries. This study not only proposed a usability evaluation model but also a practical survey tool tailored to academic library websites. Design/methodology – A usability evaluation model has been developed for academic library websites based on literature review and exper...

Introduction The topic of this paper is the integration of digital library services in an academic environment. A model of library-customer integration developed at Linköping University is presented. We also discuss how new academic library models based on the new digital information environment interfere with traditional principles of library work in a way that challenge core values in the rol...

High demand in acquiring online academic materials, digitization of education and research materials is just not enough. Beyond that, the needs of accessing and retrieving information through the network environments has made digital library to be the right answer and choice for many. Academic digital library appears to find its niche in the world of academic society resulting dramatic changes ...

Since the year 2000, French academic medicinal chemists took the initiative to collect molecules and natural extracts produced in their labs over the past years to catalyse scientific partnerships with biologists through virtual and experimental screening. This formatted collection was named ‘Chimiothèque Nationale’ (National Compound Library). After eight years of existence, the outcome in ter...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2013 (“Community Informatics in China,” edited by Kate Williams), pp. 180–204. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This essay examines the work of China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), an academic library community that has established resource sharing in a network environment. More specifically, it examines CALIS’s work...