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.

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.