Galter Health Sciences Library, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2010 Apr;98(2):98-104. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.98.2.003.
How can the user's access to health information, especially full-text articles, be improved? The solution is building and evaluating the Health SmartLibrary (HSL).
The setting is the Galter Health Sciences Library, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.
The HSL was built on web-based personalization and customization tools: My E-Resources, Stay Current, Quick Search, and File Cabinet. Personalization and customization data were tracked to show user activity with these value-added, online services.
Registration data indicated that users were receptive to personalized resource selection and that the automated application of specialty-based, personalized HSLs was more frequently adopted than manual customization by users. Those who did customize customized My E-Resources and Stay Current more often than Quick Search and File Cabinet. Most of those who customized did so only once.
Users did not always take advantage of the services designed to aid their library research experiences. When personalization is available at registration, users readily accepted it. Customization tools were used less frequently; however, more research is needed to determine why this was the case.
如何提高用户获取健康信息(特别是全文文章)的能力?解决方案是构建和评估健康智能图书馆(HSL)。
该研究的背景是西北大学范伯格医学院加尔特健康科学图书馆。
HSL 是基于基于网络的个性化和定制工具构建的:我的电子资源、保持最新、快速搜索和文件柜。个性化和定制数据被跟踪,以显示用户对这些增值在线服务的活动。
注册数据表明,用户对个性化资源选择持接受态度,并且自动化应用基于专业的个性化 HSL 比用户手动定制更频繁。那些进行定制的人更频繁地定制我的电子资源和保持最新,而不是快速搜索和文件柜。大多数进行定制的人只定制了一次。
用户并不总是利用旨在帮助他们进行图书馆研究的服务。当注册时可以提供个性化服务时,用户会欣然接受。定制工具的使用频率较低;但是,需要进一步研究以确定原因。