On June 17, 2015, Emily Daly conducted usability testing in the lobby of Perkins Library. Six participants were interviewed between noon and 1:30 p.m. A pilot was conducted earlier in the day with an ADS student worker. ...

Emily Daly and Bendte Fagge conducted usability testing that compared books and media search results using the Books & More tab in the search box on the Duke Libraries homepage against Summon scoped to catalog results. The ...

Emily Daly and Bendte Fagge conducted usability testing of the default search functionality (referred to as the “gear” in this report) and locating research guides on the Duke Libraries website. The test was held outside ...

On April 20, 2015, Emily Daly and Jaci Wilkinson conducted usability testing in the lobby of Lilly Library. Seven participants were interviewed between 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. A pilot was conducted the week prior with an ADS ...

Thomas Crichlow and Bendte Fagge conducted a brief user interview on research strategies and usability testing of the functionality of the Duke Libraries homepage. The test was held outside of the Von der Heyden Pavilion ...

In February and March of 2015, 769 Duke undergraduate students responded to the 2015 COFHE Enrolled Student Survey, and among those respondents, 681 students responded to the question on library resources. The survey was ...

Between the dates of October 3rd and November 3rd 2016, Julie Riegel and Suffana Humaira conducted user survey on the Prayer and Meditation Room in Perkins Library by emailing a survey to the Duke Muslim Student Association ...

On Tuesday, October 25, 2016, from 3:00-4:00pm, Emily Daly and Julie Riegel conducted an A/B usability test on the Duke Research Guide page (http://library.duke.edu/research/guides). By comparing Duke’s page to Northwestern’s ...

A spring 2016 report about public computer usage on the first floor of Perkins and Bostock libraries. This report includes data from survey questions, an observational study, and transaction logs. The report also includes ...

Emily Daly and Hannah Hiles, field experience student in the Assessment & User Experience Department, conducted a usability test on the Duke University Libraries current “Ask a Librarian” webpage and on the newly designed ...