Azam Najafgholinejad
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Awareness of users' perceptions and interpretations of the information labels of the user interface of digital library of the NLAI. The present study was an applied research with a mixed method. Data were collected through a researcher-made questionnaire, interview, and observation. Through a exploratory ...
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Awareness of users' perceptions and interpretations of the information labels of the user interface of digital library of the NLAI. The present study was an applied research with a mixed method. Data were collected through a researcher-made questionnaire, interview, and observation. Through a exploratory method, participants were asked to spend considerable time and in-depth to examine the categories, elements, and labels used in the digital library website and to determine their understanding of the website labels in the online questionnaire in the form of a Likert scale. Then, the semi-structured interview technique was used to study users' perceptions and interpretations of the labels assigned to the elements on the website. The study population included users of the digital library of the NLAI, which was selected in two groups of novice users (clients) and advanced users (librarians) of 20 people (10 novice users and 10 advanced users). In order to validate the research results, Methodological angulation was used to increase the reliability of the research data. During this method, the researcher used several methods to collect data (using interviews with observation, exploratory study, and questionnaire), as well as all research strategies and steps with the necessary documentation at the time of data collection were recorded. Finally, after collecting the data, the researcher used the Member checking method. During this quality control process, the researcher asked the 7 participants to read the notes and the results of the data and express their opinion on the accuracy of the findings. Cronbach's alpha test (0.85) was used to ensure the reliability of the data collection tool and the possible problems of the questionnaire. SPSS software was used to analyze the research data. Content analysis and Excel software were used to analyze the interview data. The results showed that the final average of comprehensibility of labels and terms used in the website is over 50% and indicates a good understanding of the terms and labels used in the website to represent information categories, but some labels need to be changed and updated. Some terms are not very understandable from the users' point of view and need to be revised, such as: "review", "quick look", "typical classification", "source registration", "legal considerations", "main site", "texts", "Periodical" and "Collection". The friendliness and user-friendliness of the words on the website, and the ban on the use of specialized, complex, and ambiguous words were among the demands of the users. New terms and labels were suggested by users. The use of specialized library terminology on the website, intangible and abstract words and lack of sufficient explanations about labels, lack of a comprehensive guide, going into more detail, complications on the website, and inconsistency in the use of words for similar concepts are some of the problems that cause the user does not have a good browsing experience.
Azam Najafqolinejad; Farnaz Mohammadi
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The purpose of this study is to monitor the views of users about the services of the National Library of Iran and use them in service planning. The method of this research is qualitative and focus group and brainstorming and group decision making were used to collect data. Focus groups continued until ...
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The purpose of this study is to monitor the views of users about the services of the National Library of Iran and use them in service planning. The method of this research is qualitative and focus group and brainstorming and group decision making were used to collect data. Focus groups continued until data saturation with the participation of 29 members (in two groups of 11 and 18). Maxqda software was used for data analysis.The results showed that the service factors of the Information department of the National Library of Iran from the perspective of users fall into 4 themes. Qualitative analysis of the data collected from users led to the extraction of 546 initial codes that reported service factors. Multiple revisions and code integration based on similarity over several stages resulted in 14 sub-themes. The findings of this study indicated some problems in the service desks of the National Library from the perspective of users and 4 main themes of librarians, clients, services and service desks were studied separately in its sub-themes. Based on the suggestions of the participants of this research and due to the lived experience of the authors in the service desks, suggestions were presented separately for the topics discussed.
