Description
TUlib is TU Delft’s new online information literacy website. Its main features are a tag cloud search to allow easy navigation through the website, a modular design, interactive tutorials and the use of social bookmarking. The tag cloud is based on a custom thesaurus and is powered by the Collexis search engine. Tag cloud searches are being used in many of the popular web 2.0 web services, such as Flickr and YouTube. They seem to work well for this website, giving a good overview of what the information literacy website has to offer. During the development process, a lot of effort was put into getting future users involved. For this, questionnaires, surveys, a prize contest and concept testing were used. The website is still under construction, but has received positive response from both the student and teachers’ communities.
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TUlib: Interactive learning and discovery of information literacy skills using Web 2.0 features
TUlib is TU Delft’s new online information literacy website. Its main features are a tag cloud search to allow easy navigation through the website, a modular design, interactive tutorials and the use of social bookmarking. The tag cloud is based on a custom thesaurus and is powered by the Collexis search engine. Tag cloud searches are being used in many of the popular web 2.0 web services, such as Flickr and YouTube. They seem to work well for this website, giving a good overview of what the information literacy website has to offer. During the development process, a lot of effort was put into getting future users involved. For this, questionnaires, surveys, a prize contest and concept testing were used. The website is still under construction, but has received positive response from both the student and teachers’ communities.