ICAU 2002 Poster Session, MIT's OPAC Journey

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Poster Session: MIT's OPAC Journey

Bibliography

Special thanks to Nicole Hennig for letting me borrow the bulk of this list!

I. General Usability Testing and Guidelines:

Krug, Steve & Black, Roger. Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Que, 2000.

Nielson, Jakob. Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. New Riders, 1999.

Nielson, Jakob. "Search and you May Find." Alertbox, July 15, 1997.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9707b.html

Nielson, Jakob. "Ten Usability Heuristics." Useit.com
http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html

Ravden, Susanna J. and Johnson, Graham I. Evaluating usability of Human-Computer Interfaces: A Practical Method. New York: Wiley, 1989.

Tognazzi, Bruce. First Principles. AskTog, November 1998.
http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html

II. Library Catalog Displays and Interface Design

Borgman, Christine L. "Why are online catalogs still hard to use?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47(7) July 1996: 493-503.

Cherry, Joan M. "Bibliographic Displays in OPACs and Web Catalogs: How Well Do They Comply with Display Guidelines?" Information Technology & Libraries 17(3): September 1998.
http://www.lita.org/ital/1703_cherry.html

Cherry, Joan M. and Cox, Joseph P. "World Wide Web Displays of Bibliographic Records: An Evaluation." Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Toronto, June 1996.
http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/programs/displays/caispck1.htm

Chisman, Janet, Diller, Karen and Walbridge, Sharon. "Usability Testing: A Case Study." College & Research Libraries 60(6): November 1999, 552-569.

Crawford, Walt. "Webcats and Checklists: Some Cautionary Notes." Information Technology & Libraries 18(2): June 1999.
http://www.lita.org/ital/1802_crawford.html

Elrod, J. McRee. "Cataloguer's Role in Catalog Construction: A Modest Proposal."
http://www.slc.bc.ca/mac/catcon.htm

Matthews, Joseph R. "Suggested Guidelines for Screen Layouts and Design of Online Catalogs." Library Trends, Spring 1987, 555-570. [Pre-web but still useful]

Thomas, David H. "The Effect of Interface Design on Item Selection in an Online Catalog." LRTS 45(1): 20-46.

Wool, Gregory. "The Many Faces of a Catalog Record: A Snapshot of Bibliographic Display Practices for Monographs in Online Catalogs." Information Technology & Libraries 15(3) September, 1996: 173-195.

Yee, Martha M. "Guidelines for OPAC Displays." ALCTS Online Newsletter, 10(6): December 1999.
http://www.ala.org/alcts/alcts_news/v10n6/gateway_pap14.html

Yee, Martha M. and Layne, Sara Shatford. Improving Online Public Access Catalogs. Chicago: American Library Association, 1998.

last updated: 9/30/2002