Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians

By Rebecca Blakiston

Do you want to improve the usability of your library website, but feel that it is too difficult, time-consuming, or expensive? Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians will teach you how to make the case for usability testing, define your audience and their goals, select a usability testing method appropriate for your particular context, plan for an in-house usability test, conduct an effective in-house usability test, analyze usability test results, and create and implement a plan for ongoing, systematic usability testing. Step-by-step instructions, along with a myriad of examples, allow you to use this book as a practical guide, and adapt the techniques for your own context. Techniques are appropriate for libraries of all types, including academic, public, and special libraries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442228997
• ISBN13: 9781442228993
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.9"