Usability Analysis of Central Universities Libraries Websites of North-East India: An Evaluative Study

Abstract

To maintain the standard, design and structure of Indian academic library websites, it is highly recommended for regular assessment of library web portals to increase their usability and accessibility. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usability, efficiency, and effectiveness of selected central universities libraries websites of North East India. On the basis of the present study, it is found that most of selected central universities libraries websites of North-Eastern region of India were ignoring their usability features and there is numerous scope of further improvement in terms of applications of Web 2.0 tools, web searchingfeatures, library committee, website update, website map, website multilingual option, etc.

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Dr. Akhandanand Shukla

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  • EP ID EP268466
  • DOI 10.24321/2395.2288.201711
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Dr. Akhandanand Shukla (2017). Usability Analysis of Central Universities Libraries Websites of North-East India: An Evaluative Study. Journal of Advanced Research in Library and Information Science, 4(4), 37-41. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-268466