If You Build It, They Will Come, But Will They Come Back?  

Supporting user-friendly online resources with usability testing

Usability Testing the Plymouth State

Institutional RepositoryChristin Chenard

Metadata Resources LibraryPlymouth State University

March 12, 2015

Institutional Review Board

Ingredients:

ParticipantsTasks & Script

TimelineLocation

CompensationEquipment

Participant Groups & Recruiting

Students

FacultyPublic

Details

TimelineLocationCompensation

“You’ve been conducting research pertaining to the architectural features of Plymouth State University’s campus buildings. You’ve gathered

Tasks & Script

enough information to write a scholarly article and submit it to a reputable journal for publication. Where can you find out if you could get permission to use the image?”

Recording the Session

Teamwork

Debriefing

Lunch meeting – a must!

Lessons Learned

Audience

Metadata

Home page

All Images from the Plymouth State Institutional Repository

Slide 1 Rounds Hall (n.d.) Plymouth State Historical Images Collection

Slide 3Krug, Steve (2010) Rocket Surgery Made Easy.

Slide 4 YMCA Sunday afternoon meeting (1915) Brown Company Collection

Slide 6Cook (n.d.) Brown Company Collection

Slide 7Students on the steps of Mary Lyon Hall (n.d.) Plymouth Historical Images1970 Yearbook page 130 (1970) Plymouth Yearbooks CollectionGroup in front of brick building (1938) Museum of the White Mountains Collection

Slide 8Office personnel at work (1945) Brown Company Collection

Slide 9Mary Lyon residence hall (n.d.) Plymouth State Historical Images Collection

Slide 10Movie production ‘Paper With A Purpose’ (1957) Brown Company Collection

Slide 11 Berlin Milk Company Baseball Team (1924) Brown Company Collection

Slide 12Luncheon at Costello Hotel (1958) Brown Company Collection

Slide 13Berlin High School class (1956) Brown Company Collection

Thank You!

http://digitalcollections.plymouth.edu/cdm/chchenard@plymouth.edu