INLS 210-89

Day 13

4/24/00

1.One minutes

Big Point

DL evaluation must be multifaceted

DLs may excel on some criteria (size, precision, usability, novelty, connectedness/interactiveness) but fall short on others

Satisfaction as a metric has many limitations

As technology raises users’ expectations, their satisfaction often goes down

Questions

If time-on-task is used as an evaluation metric, how to distinguish positive and negative time

Does market research and retail satisfaction apply?

In the end, does simplicity always win out?

Will we be able to measure user behavior and satisfaction better through technologies?

2. DL presentations Note site is http://www.ils.unc.edu/inls210-89-sp00/DL-overviews.html

Susan Dennis: & Sue Erickson: British Library

3. Project presentations

next week trends project presentations!

4. Evaluation (finish final slides); discuss the Perseus case

5. DL Trends. Are DLs superbrains?

Tommorrow’s DL meeting at NCSU http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/colloquium/

New books

4. One-minute paper

What was the main point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?