TY - CPAPER AU - Weinhold, Thomas AU - Öttl, Sonja AU - Bekavac, Bernard T1 - Heuristics for the evaluation of library online catalogues T2 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries ED - Katsirikou, Anthi PY - 2010 AB - Under the growing popularity of new search paradigms (e.g. faceted search) and modern web technologies many libraries have integrated new interaction possibilities into their websites. In particular the online catalogues of libraries have become more dynamic and interactive than ever before. But up to now there is a lack of empirical evidence which of these new components really deliver an added value for the users and especially it is not entirely clear how these elements should be designed and integrated into library websites. These new concepts impose not only new challenges for the implementation of library websites but also for usability evaluations of these sites. A very common instrument to assess the quality of web interfaces is the so called heuristic evaluation. However evaluation criteria, like for example the 10 heuristics of Nielsen are too generic for an in-detail analysis of certain components. Within the project “E-lib.ch – Swiss Electronic Library” a modular list of criteria was elaborated, which allows considering the particular aspects of online catalogues and which can also be used for self-evaluations by the library staff. C7 - QQML 2010 C1 - Chania, Kreta, 25.-28. Mai M4 - Citavi ER -