Virtual Tours and Law Library Websites

Sabrina Pacifici writes Virtual Tours and Law Library Websites is a new one by Rhonda Hankins in which she reviews how academic law library websites are increasingly offering visitors the option of a “virtual tour,” and illustrates effective applications of this technology. To date no definitive studies on the costs and benefits of virtual tours have been done, and no comprehensive analysis of the usages and missions of virtual tours at academic law library Web sites in the United States exists. Even usability expert Jakob Nielsen has conducted only one in-depth user test of a virtual tour. “