Aslib Proceedings: Volume 54 Issue 4

Digital visibility: menu prominence and its impact on use. Case study: the NHS Direct Digital channel on Kingston Interactive Television

David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Peter Williams, Barrie Gunter

During an evaluation of a digital interactive consumer health television channel (NHS Direct) on Kingston Interactive Television the prominence of the channel’s menus regarding…

Source credibility: do we really believe everything we’re told?

Chris Frost

Newsworthy stories have several common criteria that help news‐gatherers define them. One of these is that the story should be interesting for or of interest to the audience. This…

Online versus offline research: implications for evaluating digital media

Barrie Gunter, David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Peter Williams

The growth of the Internet and other digital media has opened up exciting opportunities for the provision of public services, for business and for personal transactions…

The use of participatory research as an alternative approach for information needs research

Cecilia Penzhorn

This article reports on a study undertaken to explore the feasibility of using a participatory research approach as a method for determining information needs. Dissatisfaction…

The Internet as an information conduit in developing countries: an investigation of World Wide Web usability among small and medium textile enterprises in Botswana

Buhle Mbambo, Johannes C. Cronjé

The Internet has been called the technology of the century because it is expected to reduce the development gap between developing countries and developed ones. This article…

Restructuring library organizations for the twenty‐first century: the future of user‐oriented services in Korean academic libraries

Eun‐Ja Shin, Young‐Seok Kim

This article examines why Korean academic libraries embarked on restructuring their organization and identifies possible solutions to some problems that these libraries face. The…

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