Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Mobile Application for Academic Library Services: A Study in a Developing Country.

Universities and scientific educational institutions today need targeted information services to ensure that their user communities have the information they need. This study aims to design, develop, implement, and evaluate a mobile application for academic library services at Tarbiat Modares Univer...

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Published in:Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 1 - 24
Main Authors: Saeidnia, Hamid Reza, Kozak, Marcin, Lund, Brady, Mannuru, Nishith Reddy, Keshavarz, Hamid, Elango, Bakthavachalam, Babajani, Afshin, Ghorbi, Ali
Format: pictorial questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: American Library Association Sep2023
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          Saeidnia, Hamid Reza
          Kozak, Marcin
          Lund, Brady
          Mannuru, Nishith Reddy
          Keshavarz, Hamid
          Elango, Bakthavachalam
          Babajani, Afshin
          Ghorbi, Ali
        affil: Tarbiat Modares University
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          Mobile Applications Evaluation
          Software Design
          Libraries, Academic Iran
          Colleges and Universities Iran
          Human
          Iran
          Access to Information
          User-Computer Interface Evaluation
          Descriptive Statistics
          Data Analysis Software
      ab: Universities and scientific educational institutions today need targeted information services to ensure that their user communities have the information they need. This study aims to design, develop, implement, and evaluate a mobile application for academic library services at Tarbiat Modares University (Tehran, Iran). A four-stage process was utilized to accomplish this aim. In the first phase, relevant literature was reviewed to obtain appropriate data requirements for the app. A questionnaire was designed and administered to survey expert librarians on the most suitable data requirements. The second phase involved the design of the user interface and user experience with the assistance of experts, followed by the evaluation of the experience. The third phase involved the development of the app in the Android Studio environment using the Java programming language, based on the requirements identified in the first and second phases. The app was then made available to the user community. Finally, the app was evaluated in the fourth phase using a questionnaire tool. The researchers found this approach to application development to be both economical and effective in the context of a developing country.
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