EVALUATION OF SELECTED UNIVERSITY LIBRARY’S WEBSITES IN SUBSAHARA AFRICA USING HEURISTIC EVALUATION CRITERIA

Abstract

This study evaluated university library websites selected from five countries in Sub Sahara Africa. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study consists of five university library websites selected from five countries in Sub-Sahara Africa. These university libraries are Balme university library Ghana, University of Pretoria South Africa, Prof. Festus Aghagbo Nwako Library website in Nigeria, Sokoine National Agricultural Library in Tanzania, and Kenyatta University Kenya. The heuristic evaluation checklist was used to evaluate ten elements that should be contained in the library website as prepared by Hennepin Country Library Website. The websites of these university libraries in Sub-Sahara African countries were visited online by the researchers to evaluate their library website using Heuristic evaluation criterion. The results of the study showed that all the five university library websites under study were in full conformity with what an ideal website should contain. In other words, they all meet the standard as portrayed by ten heuristic evaluation criteria