SPEC Kit 341: Digital Collections Assessment and Outreach · 141
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
CAR Usability Study Brief
4. “What do you think you will find at this site? How can you tell?”
All the participants’ answers related to the collection and materials they were looking at
giving answers such as the “William H. Johnson Collection,” “stuff on agriculture,” or
things related to “the Conservation society [the author of the letter].” There did not seem
to be an understanding that this was one page of a much larger site with a lot more
materials.
C. Tasks
1. What is this page showing you? How do you know?
4 out of the 6 participants had some difficulty answering this question. These 4 did not
figure out what the page was showing an entire folder of materials until reading through
the description, which explained what was being represented.
1 participant realized that it was a folder right away and was the only one to see the
“What is this” box and read it.
1 participant could not figure out that they were looking at a folder and only focused on
the letter that was the first scan.
2. Can you find a photograph that is included in this folder?
4 out of the 6 participants had no problem finding a photograph in the folder by going to
the pages section on the page and then selecting a photograph.
2 out of the 6 participants first selected the subject heading “photographs” and then after
realizing that took them to all the photographs rather than just in the folder, they went
back and found one in the pages view.
3. Can you find a diagram in this folder?
All participants successfully completed this task.
4. Can you find a table titled “Sale of Bulk Cured Tobacco (1958)” in this folder?
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