Most patrons won't understand the meanings of "digital collections" and
"electronic resources". We should use terminology that they would use.
My brain is a fog this morning so I don't have any brilliant suggestions
at the moment. There is likely to be UX-type research about this in the
current literature. "Databases" is probably better, for example.
"Articles" is probably even better than "databases".
For what it's worth...
/Erik
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Mechanics' Institute
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On 3/18/2015 9:25 AM, Matt Sherman wrote:
I haven't done any testing on that, but your understanding it the
conventional on in the field.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Derek Merleaux <derek.merle...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I've always been inclined to use "digital collections" to talk about a
collection of things that have been digitized or perhaps including born
digital things that are part of a "collection" in an archival sort of way.
I prefer the term "electronic resources" for the databases and other
things...
-Derek
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Jenn C <jen...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi-
We're having a discussion about some web site labeling and navigation. We
have a list of "digital collections" which are collections that contain
items we've digitized. There was concern expressed that we have something
labeled "digital collections" patrons might think that includes databases
and other items.
Has anyone done user testing around this or have any experience/ideas
about
how to handle the difference between these?
Thanks!
jenn
