LINGUA FRANCA: HOW WE US ED ANALYTICS TO DESCRIBE DATABASES IN STUDENT SPEAK.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- ARCHAMBAULT, SUSAN GARDNER; MASUNAGA, JENNIFER; RYAN, KATHRYN
- Source
- Computers in Libraries; Oct2019, Vol. 39 Issue 8, p25-28, 4p, 1 Color Photograph, 6 Diagrams
- Subject
- Academic libraries
Database design
Information resources management
Librarians
Library orientation
Databases
Data analytics
- Language
- ISSN
- 10417915
The article focuses on the use of analytics to describe database in student speak and process for developing and testing the new format for database descriptions. It mentions libguides best practices literature asserts that because students naturally skim websites and format breaks down the database description into shorter chunks of information. It also mentions facilitators have less control over their test population and the length of time testing takes.