Designing, implementing, and evaluating an educational digital library resource

This paper presents the current status in the development of the ongoing project now known as Project i‐DLR. The content of this “pointer site” includes resources pertaining to digital libraries organised using an educational framework for access. The paper describes the five‐stage evaluation of that educational digital library resource ( www.coe.missouri.edu/ rafee/idigital libraryR/index.php ). The focus of this particular effort is on the continued development and refinement based on the recent evaluations of this resource by end users seeking to access digital library resources. The five evaluation methods are presented and described, beginning with focus group reviews, Web log analysis, database transaction logs, a Web survey, and most recently, a remote usability evaluation. As the resource continues to grow in both breadth and depth, such analyses are critical to continued refinement of the interface, the sources themselves, and the manner in which they are organised and presented.