MINELRES: Digital Library Mini Evaluation: Your participation will be appreciated!

[MINELRES moderator]

Original sender: Jana Chrzova <jana.chrzova@helcom.cz>


Digital Library Mini Evaluation:

Dear Colleagues,

We are interested in getting some feedback on specific aspects of the
Forced Migration Online Digital Library. We would be grateful if you
could take 10-15 minutes to respond to the following questions.  All you
need to do is click on the Reply function in your email application, and
type in your responses accordingly. We would truly appreciate if you
could return the filled in form by the end of August 2002 at the latest.

Many thanks for your help in improving the digital library!

Elisa Mason
Forced Migration Online
fmo@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Jana Chrzova, Czech Helsinki Committee

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>From MINELRES moderator: Please, don't forget that you receive this
letter via mailing list, and don't understand the instructions above too
literally - i.e. please, DO NOT CLICK ON REPLY but address you answers
to the original sender!
Boris   
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**Digital Library Mini Evaluation**

Instructions:  Go to http://www.forcedmigration.org; when answering the
questions below, please include an X next to the Yes / No options, and
type in your comments where indicated.

1. Please indicate your browser type and version (usually available in
the "Help" menu at the top of the screen; look under "About"):

2. Technical Access:

2.1 Were you able to open up the digital library?

Yes

No
- If no, why not?

2.2 Please conduct the following searches.  For each, please answer the
questions below:

(i) cedaw and beyani (select the first result entitled "The Convention
on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW)");

(ii) palestinians and "mental health" (select the third result entitled
"Gaza Community Mental Health Programme third international conference:
health and human rights");

(iii) resettlement and mexico (select the first result entitled
"Resettlement policy in Mexico")

Were you able to open up the document window and view each document from
your search results?

Yes

- If yes, how long did the document window take to open for each
document?

No
- If no, why not?

2.3 Were you able to view the PDF versions of the three documents
located via the above-mentioned searches?

Yes
- If yes, how long did it take for the PDF file to open for each
document?

How many pages was each of the documents you opened?

No
- If no, why not?

2.4 Were you able to print out a page from the regular document window
(i.e., not the PDF viewer)?

Yes

No
- If no, why not?

2.5 Were you able to successfully export metadata from the digital
library? (To do this, simply tick one or more of the boxes in the search
results list, then click on the "Export Metadata" button at the bottom
of the screen; when prompted, tick "open this file from its current
location.")

Yes

No
- If no, why not?

3. Searching:

3.1 Did you conduct a simple search that retrieved relevant results?

- If yes, please provide us with a brief example of one of your
successful searches (excluding those indicated in question 2.3!).

- If no, why not?

3.2 Did you conduct an advanced search that retrieved relevant results?

- If yes, please provide us with a brief example of one of your
successful searches.

- If no, why not?

3.3  Advanced searching:  Do you conduct searches by field or using
boolean operators?

- If yes, how often:  
all of the time _____  
some of the time _____
every now and then _____

- If no, do you expect to use advanced search options in the future?

3.4 Did you read the "search tips"?

- If yes, were they easy to understand?

- Did they help you to formulate a better search?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION

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Mgr. Jana Chrzova, vykonna reditelka, Cesky helsinsky vybor,
Jeleni 5/199, 118 00 Praha 1

Jana Chrzova, Executive Director, Czech Helsinki Committee
Jeleni 5/199, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Tel.:  ++ 420-2-2437 2281
Fax : ++ 420-2-2437 2335
Internet: <http://www.helcom.cz>
E-mail:  <jana.chrzova@helcom.cz>
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