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ARCHIVES / CHICAGO 2007 Program Session
205. Ships That Pass in the Night? Evaluating Archival Users Tools with a User-Centric Perspective
Thursday, August 30, 2007
12:45 PM-2:15 PM
Gold Jodi Allison-Bunnell, Chair
Northwest Digital Archives Annaliese Bateman
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign David Clark
Truman Presidential Museum and Library Su Kim Chung
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
A panelist at the Joint
Annual Meeting of SAA, NAGARA, and CoSA in 2006 said, "If our services can’t be
used without training, then it’s the services that need to be fixed – not our
patrons." Do we really consider our users when we develop our services?
Archivists and researchers on this panel consider the role of the user in
developing online finding aids and digital content. Panelists also consider the
kinds of information on, and involvement from, users that archivists
need.
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