What's the immediate future look like for the HPOTF?
We've finished the Lunch and Learn sessions and completed the survey of students in the lobby of Haley Center. Members of faculty, graduate and undergraduate student groups were asked to discuss three mockups and the current library homepage. Several trays of sandwiches, cookies, pickles, olives, and candy bars have been consumed. While a hot tub and marijuana proved to be the necessary fuel for creativity at Apple, here at Auburn we thrive on roast beef, dill pickle spears and oatmeal raisin cookies.
We will be sending two versions of our three column mockup to the Computer/Human Interaction Lab in the college of Engineering. The students there will do usability studies of the mockups this summer and we will hopefully implement one or a combination of the two versions as our new homepage this Fall semester.
Now available!
The "megasearch" for federated searching of multiple general use databases is available on the new Find Articles page. Effective Monday, 24 May, 2004, this will become the default Find Articles page.
The Alabama Mosaic Web site made its official debut at the Alabama Library Association meeting in Montgomery in mid-April.
Alabama Mosaic is the public site for The Cornerstone Project. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from Alabama’s archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories electronically accessible to Alabama residents as well as scholars throughout the world.
You can find Alabama Mosaic at http://www.alabamamosaic.org/.