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"Is ""User Friendly"" really possible in library automation?"

Carrison, Dale K.

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Title
"Is ""User Friendly"" really possible in library automation?"
Author(s)
Carrison, Dale K.
Issue Date
1986
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Library catalogs and users
  • User interfaces (Computer systems) Design
Abstract
The term user friendly has become a buzzword. Everyone would probably agree that online library systems should be approachable. However, despite efforts to make system use easier, many first-time users still feel intimidated. The major cause of user fear may be the everyday jargon used by those persons who are the corporate keepers of the Holy Grail i.e., automated library systems. Often the words used in discussing online systems are overly expressive and needlessly violent in tone. Even the term user fits this situation because it sounds drug related rather than library related.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (23rd : 1986)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Copyright 1986 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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1986: What is User Friendly? PRIMARY
23rd Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1986). Edited by F.W. Lancaster.