A Snapshot of Reading, Searching, and Browsing Preferences of Tertiary Students

Unanswered questions remain regarding how to design search result pages in library catalogues that offer effective library seeking experiences for users – especially those designed for small screen mobile devices. This paper reports a snapshot interview of the user habits and preferences of tertiary library patrons during book searching and browsing and provides recommendations for library catalogue design and further research.

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Nicholas Vanderschantz

Claire Timpany

Chun Feng

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-6

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[0001]Department of Computer Science

The University of Waikato

New Zealand

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.176

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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[1] M. J. Bates 1989 The design of browsing and berrypicking techniques for the online search interface Online review 13 5):407 424

[2] J.W. CooperJ.M. Prager 2000 Anti‐serendipity: finding useless documents and similar documents R.H. Spragu Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii IEEE Computer Society Piscataway, NJ

[3] P. A. Gaona-GarcíaD. Martin-MoncunillC. Montenegro-Marin 2017 Trends and challenges of visual search interfaces in digital libraries and repositories The Electronic Library 35 1):69 98

[4] A. HinzeD. McKayN. VanderschantzC. TimpanyS. J. Cunningham 2012 Book selection behavior in the physical library: Implications for ebook collections In Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries 305 314 ACM New York, NY

[5] A. HinzeN. VanderschantzC. TimpanyS-J. Saravani, S. J. CunninghamC. Wilkinson 2017 Use of Mobile Apps for Teaching and Research–Implications for Digital Literacy In Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries 173 184 Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

[6] B. Lawson 2006 How designers think the design process demystified 4th Elsevier/Architectural, Oxford Burlington, MA

[7] Z. Liu 2005 Reading behavior in the digital environment: Changes in reading behavior over the past ten years Journal of Documentation 61 6 700 712

[8] S. Makri , A. Blandford , J. Gow , J. Rimmer , C. WarwickG. Buchanan 2007 A library or just another information resource? A case study of users’ mental models of traditional and digital libraries J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci 58 433 445

[9] D. McKay 2011 Gotta keep’em separated: why the single search box may not be right for libraries In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction 109 112 ACM

[10] D. McKayG. Buchanan, S. Chang 2015 Tyranny of Distance: Understanding Academic Library Browsing by Refining the Neighbour Effect S. Kapidakis, C. Mazurek, M. Werla Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9316 Springer Cham

[11] D. McKayA. HinzeR. HeeseN. VanderschantzC. TimpanyS. J. Cunningham 2012 An exploration of ebook selection behavior in academic library collections In International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 13 24 Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

[12] D. McKayG. BuchananN. VanderschantzC. TimpanyS. J. CunninghamA. Hinze 2012 Judging a book by its cover: interface elements that affect reader selection of ebooks In Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference ACM New York, NY, US

[13] T. MerčunM. Žumer 2008 New generation of catalogues for the new generation of users: A comparison of six library catalogues, Program 42 3 243 261

[14] J. MiC. Weng 2008 Revitalizing the library OPAC: Interface, searching, and display challenges Information Technology and Libraries 27 1 5 22

[15] P.M. Morse 1971 On browsing: the use of search theory in the search for information Bulletin of the Operations Research Society of America supplement 19 1

[16] A. NoorhidwaatiF. Gibb 2008 How Students Use E-books—Reading or Referring? Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science 13 2 1 14

[17] C. OlstonE. H. Chi 2003 ScentTrails: Integrating browsing and searching on the Web ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 10 3 177 197

[18] C. S. Ross 2000 Making choices: What readers say about choosing books to read for pleasure The Acquisitions Librarian 13 25 5 21

[19] B. ShneidermanD. FeldmanA. RoseX. F. Grau 2000 Visualizing digital library search results with categorical and hierarchical axes In Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries 57 66 New York, NY ACM

[20] S. Su 2005 Desirable search features of web‐based scholarly e‐book systems The Electronic Library 23 1 64 71

[21] N. VanderschantzC. TimpanyA. Hinze 2015 Design exploration of ebook interfaces for personal digital libraries on tablet devices In Proceedings of the 15th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 21 30 ACM

[22] M. VasileiouR. HartleyJ. Rowley 2012 Choosing e‐books: a perspective from academic libraries Online Information Review 36 1):21 39

[23] N. S. VemuriR. D. S. TorresE. A. FoxW. FanR. Shen 2006, June Exploring digital libraries: integrating browsing, searching, and visualization In Digital Libraries, 2006. JCDL’06. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on 1 10 IEEE

[24] D. WellsC. Richardson 2014 How do library clients use discovery systems In LIANZA Conference 12 15

[25] G. Wiederhold 1995 Digital libraries, value, and productivity Communications of the ACM 38 4 85 96

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