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This would be
the result. It gives a link to full
text if available and provides options to search our Catalog. We chose to focus on only Catalog services
for the launch but anticipated later adding other services, such as
interlibrary loan.
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I’ve shown you
what our system looked like as of our official launch, in May of 2003. We’ve seen how user testing influenced the
design of our system and helped further our intended goal of better meeting
our patrons’ needs. Along with this
feedback from focus groups, we also had input from reference staff, as I
mentioned earlier.
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At this point,
we were curious to see how the system itself was being used, from a more
quantitative point of view. So we
wrote and were awarded an internal library grant for performing usage log
analysis over the summer.
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