Save the time of the surfer: evaluating Web sites for users
Stephen W. Sowards
(Head, Social Sciences and Humanities reference, Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing)
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Abstract
A good web site has a purpose for the designer who wrote the page, the editor who maintains it and the Web surfer who finds it. One can think about this by paraphrasing and restating Ranganathan‘s Five Laws of Library Science, beginning with this one: “Web sites are for use.” A Web site without without a potential audience is pointless; a purposeless Web site will have no audience.
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Citation
Sowards, S.W. (1997), "Save the time of the surfer: evaluating Web sites for users", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 15 No. 3/4, pp. 155-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/07378839710308501
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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