[Asis-l] Digital Library Evaluation -- Featuring: Tefko Saracevic

[hiris at uwm.edu]

Please join the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies
ASIST Student chapter for renowned Professor Tefko Saracevic’s presentation on:

Criteria and Methods in Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Use & Usability

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/about/news/events/Tefko_07.pdf
Criteria and Methods in Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Use & Usability

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/about/news/events/Tefko_07.pdf

1:30 PM

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

UW-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies

Bolton Hall Rm: 289

3210 N Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53211

Refreshments will be served!

Sponsored by:
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies ASIST Student
chapter and the SOIS Information Intelligence & Architecture Research Lab.

In digital libraries, evaluation relates to assessment of performance
(effectiveness, efficiency) on the basis of given criteria. Performance
could be related to usability and criteria may be specified by users or
derived from professional practice, or standards. Since their appearance
in mid 1990's, everything about digital libraries has grown at an
exponential rate, except evaluation - it is a relatively small and
neglected area. As a result, criteria, measures and methods for
evaluation are not standardized as yet. This presentation concentrates
on a variety of criteria, extracted from some 50+ studies and as derived
in a doctoral dissertation from various digital library stakeholders.


Presenter:

Tefko Saracevic, Ph.D., Rutgers University

School of Communication, Information and Library Studies


*	Past president of the American Society for Information Science
(ASIS&T)
*	Recipient of the ASIS&T Award of Merit (the highest award given
by the Society)
*	Recipeint of the Gerard Salton Award for Excellence in Research
by the Association for Computing Machinery
*	Editor-in-Chief of Information Processing & Management
*	Ranked first in citations to his work in articles in the Journal
of the American Society for Information Science  and Technology (JASIST)
(Total Local Citation Score), as well as in articles globally from that
Journal (Total Global Citation Score).


Iris Xie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(414)229-6835 (phone)
(414)229-6699 (fax)