Collection Description Focus, Workshop 5

UKOLN

Collection-Level Description and the Information Landscape
Users evaluate strategies for resource discovery

Thursday 30th January 2003
Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge


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PROGRAMME

10.00-10.30

Registration and Coffee

10.30-10.35

Welcome
Paul Andrews, Project Manager - Cecilia, IAML (UK & Irl)

10.35-10.50

Ann Chapman & Bridget Robinson, Collection Description Focus, UKOLN
Presentation: [Powerpoint] | [HTML]

10.50-11.20

David Owen, Share the Vision, National Library for the Blind
"We want to join in"
Presentation: [Powerpoint] | [HTML]

11.20-11.50

Sarah Stark, Regional Liaison Co-ordinator, A2A, Public Record Office
"How do we know what they want? A2A and user evaluation of archival resource discovery"
Presentation: [Powerpoint] | [HTML]

11.50-12.05

Tea/Coffee

12.05-12.35

Ian Anderson, Lecturer, Humanities Advanced technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow
"Information Seeking Behaviours in the Digital Age: Historians in the UK"
Presentation: [Powerpoint] | [HTML]

12:35-13.00

Discussion

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-14.15

Discussion of breakout groups

1. Usability/accessibility issues
2. How to set up an evaluation?
3. What do users want?

14:15-15.15

Breakout groups
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3

15:15-15.30

Tea/Coffee

15:30-16.00

Report back

16:00

Close

 

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