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Thursday, May 19, 2005
Influencing User Behavior through Digital Library Design: An Example from the Geosciences - Cathy A. Manduca, Ellen R. Iverson, Sean Fox; D-Lib
Each of the elements of a digital library – its collections, the portals to those collections, and its supporting services – plays an important role in determining how the library is used and what impact it will have on users. In this article, we explore how the portal of a digital library can be designed to influence the behavior of its users. Our example is the Starting Point Digital Library (DL), an education digital library designed primarily for faculty who are teaching introductory level geoscience. Like many education digital libraries, we aspire to enhance teaching and learning in a realm of science [1, 2].
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