Digital library services for authors of learning materials

ABSTRACT

Digital libraries, particularly those designed to meet the needs of educators and students, focus their primary services on the needs of their end users [1]. In this paper, we introduce and discuss the types of services authors of the materials cataloged within this type of digital library expect, or may find useful. Results from a study of authors cataloged in NEEDS - a national engineering education digital library guide this discussion.

REFERENCES

• 1: Lynne Davis , Melissa Dawe, Collaborative design with use case scenarios, Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, p.146-147, January 2001, Roanoke, Virginia, United States [doi>10.1145/379437.379472]
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.7 Digital Libraries
          Subjects: User issues

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
authors, educational technology, user studies