Arquitetura da informação e avaliação da usabilidade: estudo de caso do website do Sistema de Bibliotecas da Universidade Federal de Goiás

Abstract

This case study discusses about Information Architecture and Usability applied to the website of the Library System of the Federal University of Goiás (SiBi / UFG). It shows the context of the Brazilian university libraries that Internet use as a communication tool that allows the dissemination of information and knowledge. This study case presents Information Architecture and Usability aimed at web sites libraries. The main purpose of the study is to verify if the website of Sibi /UFG meets the elements of Information Architecture and Usability criteria. For that it was necessary to use various authors that discuss with the issue, to identify the context of the Library System of the Federal University of Goias. Presents the techniques and methods used to evaluate the usability of websites and the importance of evaluating the usability of a system. Referring to the methodological issues it is a qualitative research structured as case study. The Information Architecture Usability complements, the first concerned with the structure and organization of information, while Usability, use and consistency between them and the information needs of real users. In this research adopted the model of information architecture proposed by these authors, Rosenfeld and Morville (1998). It was identified some Usabil