[WEB4LIB] Best "usable" library sites

[Gimon, Charles A]

Not a single one of these validates at http://validator.w3.org/. I would
consider all of these to be, at the very best, unfinished.

I have a whole, big grab bag of gripes about "usability", too, but I'm
grumpy enough today, so I'll leave them till later.

--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Cockburn [mailto:cockbuba at jmu.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:37 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Best "usable" library sites
> 
> 
> As promised, here is the list of library sites that are 
> considered by this
> list as "usable" sites.
> 
> http://www.morehead-st.edu/units/library/
> 
http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/

http:// www.chipublib.org <http://www.chipublib.org/>

http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/index.html

http://www.nypl.org/

http://www.rcls.org/


Now I only got about 4 people responding so either there are no good library
sites as related to usability or maybe there is a lack of understanding
about why I am asking this group.  So...

I could identify 4 or 5 "best usability practices" library sites, but I want
to take myself out of that part of the study.  I was looking to get some
kind of consensus or majority agreement on this so that when we, at JMU,
begin "user workflow modeling" we can test various solutions of intuitive
effectiveness with our users.

So if anybody has other suggestions for well-designed usability-conscious
library sites, I would still appreciate them.

Thanks

BAC

Brian Cockburn
Digital Services Librarian
James Madison University
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