* This message is being cross-posted. Apologies for any duplication. * Dear colleagues,
We are writing to invite you to participate in a user evaluation of a resource for visual materials available on the Web -- the Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC). MOAC is a museum and library collaboration, with a number of interests and concurrent projects. Since 1998, MOAC partners have contributed content to an online resource of museum, archival, and library collections, made available freely by the California Digital Library. The MOAC resource has grown to over 75,000 records and images from 11 California cultural institutions. MOAC partners are also developing tools for cultural institutions to use in delivering their content on institutional websites and/or into online union databases, such as those managed by the California Digital Library. MOAC partners are currently engaged in a user evaluation of the structure, contents, and usability of the MOAC resource, delivered via the California Digital Library. Our MOAC II User Evaluation project is led by Anne Gilliland of UCLA's Department of Information Studies. You'll find details about the study on the MOAC II website -- http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~moac/. We are examining the needs and behaviors of four constituencies in their use of digitized collections: information professionals working in museums, libraries, and archives; academics/researchers in the humanities and social sciences; undergraduates; and K-12 teachers. We are sending invitations to participate in the study to *information professionals* via the ARLIS, MCN, and VRA listservs. If *you* are interested in participating, we encourage you to first browse or search the MOAC resource at http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/, then complete an online questionnaire. The questionnaire for information professionals is available at http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~moac/surveys.html and the password is chevron18. Lastly, if you know of other information professionals, or any researchers or K-12 teachers, that would like to participate in this study, please email the evaluation team at [email protected]. Your input is greatly needed and highly valued. Richard Rinehart Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive University of California, Berkeley Mary Elings The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Layna White San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
