I am working now on a usability evaluation for digital library and I want to ask is an academic digital library considering educational website or information retrieval system ? in another word, is the library (website or system)? and what is the difference between them ? because I read some literature review menthioned that the digital/online library considering as a system but other said it is an academic website?
thanks in advance
It's a web application. Based on the tags used, I guess it's evaluated from HCI/design perspectives. You should be able to find/use heuristic guidelines on webpage design. In addition, you need to evaluate user interactions, such as how usable it is for a user to search for something, set filters, etc.