title: Lessons learned from evaluation of the use of the National electronic Library of Infection.
abstract: The National electronic Library of Infection (NeLI: http://www.neli.org.uk) in the UK is a freely available portal to key evidence and guidelines in the infectious disease field. This paper discusses 5 years of evaluation of the pilot library and how this evaluation informed design of the new library website. The importance of combining qualitative and quantitative evaluation is highlighted and the results of web access logs analysis, free text search query analysis and an online user survey are compared. The paper concludes with a discussion of lessons learned for future development and evaluation of this Internet digital library.
authors.affiliation: City eHealth Research Centre, City University, Northampton Square, London, UK. g.c.madle@city.ac.uk
authors.forename: Gemma
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Madle
authors.forename: Patty
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kostkova
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mani-Saada
authors.forename: Anjana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D046609:Libraries, Digital; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom