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Hi Joyce: The Northwest Digital Archives Usability Design Working Group has conducted a number of studies on the NWDA website. You can find the resulting reports from rounds 4 and 5 at http://orbiscascade.org/index/usability-design-working-group-reports . Best, Jodi On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Joyce Chapman wrote: > Dear all, > > We are redesigning our finding aid at the Southern Historical > Collection and will be doing some usability testing this year. I've > been reading what literature I can find out there on finding aid > usability studies, but have been surprised at how little published > work there is. I can't help but think that between all of us there > must be a greater store of communal knowledge on this subject, > whether it's information passed by word of mouth from public > services, informal surveys, unpublished findings, etc. I would love > to hear from anyone willing to share their own institution's > findings or experiences. > > Thank you, > > Joyce Chapman > (Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina > at Chapel Hill) Jodi Allison-Bunnell Program Manager, Northwest Digital Archives Orbis Cascade Alliance 418 Woodford Missoula, MT 59801 [log in to unmask] (406) 829-6528 fax (860) 540-8281 Researcher website:http://nwda.wsulibs.wsu.edu/ Member website: http://orbiscascade.org/index/northwest-digital-archives