A Design of University Library Ebook Catalog: From the Perspectives of User Behavior

• Main Authors: Hsieh, Meng-Chun, 謝孟君
• Other Authors: Chen, Chao-chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20984198147214289589

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 圖書資訊學研究所 === 103 === Since Ministry of Education of Taiwan announced that collections of ebooks in libraries approached that of print books in 103 academic year, it reflects the dramatic increases of ebook publications and collections in libraries. The most significant advantage of ebook catalogs over print book catalogs is full text preview. In addition to libraries, users can pick up ebooks through online print book and ebook stores with additional information and functions. As a result, to improve library ebook catalogs, libraries should investigate the design of the catalogs by understanding the behaviors that users search and acquire ebooks and the need of bibliographic enhancements of ebook. This study adopted the qualitative approach, recruiting 15 master students for interview. Four ebook catalogs, including Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), HyReadeBooks, Amazon, and DPLA StackLife, were chosen; two searching paths, including the web site of library and internet, were considered. Interview method was used in this study and 6 tasks were assigned to the interviewers. After the completion of each task, the interview proceeded for the object related to the task. The interview audio files were transcribed and encoded to understand the usage and opinions of interviewers on the ebook catalogs. The conclusions for searching and acquiring ebooks are: 1) the interviewers learn the information of ebooks from many sources, and they mainly use search engine to search and acquire ebooks; 2) the interviewers prefer getting search results of both books and ebooks from OPAC; 3) the interviewers feel trouble on the procedures acquiring ebooks, and are unconfident in the search functions of OPAC. The conclusions for usage of the present ebook catalogs are: 1) the 10 basic bibliographic records which should be included in Ebook catalogs are, sorted by importance, tile, author, year of publication, cover, press, abstract, contents, topic, review, and star rating; 2) while the interviewers stated they prefer abstract in the interviews, they more frequently used full text preview in behaviors; 3) the interviewers would consider star rating, review, social network sharing, and suggestion, but they have not been used to these functions; 4) cross marketing can help the interviewers browsing related books. The conclusions of the additional functions the interviewers need are: 1) the interviewers prefer the search results in list forms and the function of categorizing after searching. Covers influence what the interviewers choose a book most significantly; 2) the interviewers prefer ebook catalogs which have detailed bibliographic records and clear interfaces; 3) the interviewers support the idea to establish separated ebook catalogs and searching interfaces in library web sites. The suggestions for the ways of searching and acquiring ebooks provided by libraries are: 1) the search function of OPAC should be improved; 2) providing courses for using ebooks in libraries is necessary. The suggestions for the search results of OPAC are: 1) detailed bibliographic records is required; 2) the links to ebooks need to be improved. The suggestions for social network sharing and marketing are: 1) giving star rating should be motivated; 2) cross marketing can significantly help browsing related books. The suggestions for ebook catalogs of libraries are: 1) using list forms to show search results is favorable; 2) providing the function of categorizing after searching is suggested; 3) covers are necessary in searching results.