CHALMERS

"WEBSITE USABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OF OSLO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY"

Anna Brzeska
Master Thesis 2004
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GOALS

ANALYSIS
>>Library Users
>>UBO Website
>>UBO Site Map
>>Broken Links

METHODS

Questionnaires
>>Part A
>>Part B
>>Part C
>>Questions for the students
Interviews
>Answers empoyees
>Answers students

Card Sort
>>Result Cart Sort

Web servers logs

Usability testing

Accessibility testing
UBO website blind
Accessibility design

PROTOTYPE

WEBSITE REDESIGN
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RECOMMENDATIONS
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REPORT


References

>>Books

Glossary

Appendixs

Software


Supervisor


Examiner

Usability Card Sorting Test
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Card Sort is a technique for defining the hierarchical website structure. For a website, users would be given cards with the names of the web pages on the site and asked to group the cards into related categories. After doing so, the users may be asked to break groups again into subgroups for large sites. After gathering the groupings from several users, designers can typically spot clear organizations across many users. Statistical analysis can uncover the best groupings from the data where it's not clear by inspection, though inconsistent groupings may be a sign of a poorly-defined goal for the website or a poor choice of web page names.

Card Sorting:
  • Is easy and cheap to conduct
  • Enables to understand how users are likely to group items
  • Identifies items that are likely to be difficult to categorize and find
  • Identifies terminology that is likely to be misunderstood

Note: Each block equals a separate index card.
1.Please group carts in a way that make sense to You.
2. Please name the resulting groups
3. Please send the result of Card sort to me

The result

 

*Main page
http://www.ub.uio.no





 
*Addresses & Opening Hours

 


 

*About the library
Explanation: Information about the library 




 
 

*Faculty Library of Mathematics and Natural Sciencies




 


 
 

*Library of Arts and Social sciences




 
 

*Library of Medicine and Health Sciences



 

*New Books in the Library
Explanation: The library's new books and journals 
 

*Library access & Use*
Explanation: Polices about library use , library cards 
and about who can use library resources. 



 

*BIBSYS Catalogue
Explanation: The library online database contains information about books



 
 

*Dial Up networking to UiO
 




 


 

*News
Explanation: Information about the 
actualy news and events. 




 
 

*HKI Catalogue
Explanation: Catalogs of older foregin literature from 1813-1965. 





 


 

*BIBSYS Subject Gateway:Resources on the Web
Explanation: Information developed by BIBSYS  
for specific subject register




 

*World of Learning
Explanation: web sites  
recommended by librarians.

 

 

*Contacts
Explanation: Contact to get more information about e-journals and databases
 
 
 

*Databases
Explanation: list of databases available to search. 




 


 

*Editorial Responsibility
Explanation: Information about the responsibility for the UiO Information System. 





 

*New books in the library*
 

 

*InterLibrary loan
Explanation: Online forms for requesting 
items from other libraries
 
 
 

*Courses and user teaching
Explanation: services the library provides for faculty members.




 

 

*Opening hours for readrooms 
Explanation: opening hour in UHS;UMN;UJUR & UMH libraries 

 
 

*Projects, Activties
Explanation: activities offered by library and computer staff.




 

*Fines and Overdue notices*
Explanation: Description of fines and notices 
for items checked out from the library 
 

*Checking out books*
Explanation: procedure for checking out items from the library





 


 

*Scaning
Explanation: Information about scaning services of library items . 




 
 

*Frida
Explanation: Database searching done by 
librarians for faculty members,resarchers





 


 

*Help

Explanation: web page with FAQ 




 
 

*Prices
Explanation: information about prises for copying, scaning, interlibrary loan 





 


 

*Lending Rules
Explanation: Information on the time periods 
allotted for checking out items.



 

  

*DUO Digitale utgivelser ved UiO 
Explanation: digital publications database for UiO employees and students. 



 

*Search Engines
Explanation: Recommended search engines 
to use when searching the Web.



 
 

*Electronic Journals
Explanation: electronic journals available on BIBSYS Search Library database. 




 

*Juridisk Nettviser
Explanation: Gateway to Law



 

*Electronic Bookshelf
Ecplanation:Links to translators,dictionaries,maps,addresses, books and book collection





 

*Journal lists*
Explanation: lists of journals owned by UBO library 




 
 

*Accessing library resources from home 
Explanation: Help documents for accessing library resources 





 



Card sorting tools onlineIBM´s EZSort program (free).

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