User Interface Design Challenges for Digital Libraries

Abstract

Today’s digital libraries are extreme complex information systems, which run on the Internet [1]. The facili- ties of digital libraries are increasing daily as the technology advances with a motive to provide the appropriate information to its users. The very purpose of the digital libraries is to provide the required information to its users in a convenient and fashioned manner. Since the digital libraries are running on the Internet and the users are from different psychological, educational and social backgrounds, the usage of digital libraries is varying from user to user which entail the need of best user interface. Hence, this paper proposes some design principles for user interfaces for digital libraries for its effective implemen- tation.