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Usability Evaluation of Information Literacy Programmes: The Case Study of “Orion”

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This paper refers to an evaluation project conducted at the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki during 2014. The project aimed to evaluate the information literacy programme Orion. Orion is a useful tool that constitutes a most vital part of the information literacy skills evolution. The project aimed to evaluate the usability of Orion, specifying whether or not the programme improves information literacy skills of students providing content and functionality excellence. Additionally, it is very important to measure the usability of the structure that the programme follows. The method applied was measuring effectiveness, efficiency, learnability, and satisfaction. Most users appeared to be positively inclined towards the service, but during task performance and as they became more acquainted with the system, they became more critical as they confronted difficulties; such as the terminology used in it.

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Acknowledgment

This research paper was made possible through the project “Digital Libraries and Open Access services of ATEI of Thessaloniki” funded by the European Union within the framework of “Digital Plan” and the Greek Ministry of Education. This project undertakes the assignment of Digital Services of increased value from the library towards the academic community, according to which Information Literacy Services for the academic community of ATEI of Thessaloniki were created.

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  1. Department of Library Science and Information Systems, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Emmanouel Garoufallou, Anxhela Dani, Chrysanthi Chatzopoulou & Rania Siatri

  2. Institute of Information Studies, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Sirje Virkus

  3. University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain

    Emmanouel Garoufallou & Stavroula Antonopoulou

  4. Southampton Solent University, East Park Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0YN, UK

    Fotis Mystakopoulos

  5. American Farm School, Perrotis College, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Stavroula Antonopoulou

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  1. Dept. of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

    Serap Kurbanoglu

  2. DICEN IDF EA 7369, Université Paris Descartes DICEN IDF EA 7369, Paris, France

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    Diane Mizrachi

  6. School of Information, The University of Texas School of Information, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Garoufallou, E. et al. (2015). Usability Evaluation of Information Literacy Programmes: The Case Study of “Orion”. In: Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability. ECIL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28197-1_42

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