Redesigning for Usability: Information Architecture and Usability Testing for Georgia Tech Library's Website

Case study: Purpose: To describe the efforts by the Georgia Institute of Technology Library to keep its website relevant and current by incorporating user testing, both outsourced and in-house. Design/methodology/approach: A chronological history of the Library's web presence with a discussion of how user testing was conducted with a vendor and how future testing will be conducted by the Library itself. Findings: Illustrates issues the Georgia Institute of Technology Library has faced in regards to its website in the past, and future plans to test the site to maintain currency and strive to meet the users' needs. Originality/value: This paper offers practical information for undertaking usability testing of a library website

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Geographical and temporal distribution of SARS-CoV-2 clades in the WHO European Region, January to June 2020

We show the distribution of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) genetic clades over time and between countries and outline potential genomic surveillance objectives. We applied three genomic nomenclature systems to all sequence data from the World Health Organization European Region available until 10 July 2020. We highlight the importance of real-time sequencing and data dissemination in a pandemic situation, compare the nomenclatures and lay a foundation for future European genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2

26th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2017): Part 3 - Meeting Abstracts - Antwerp, Belgium. 15–20 July 2017

This work was produced as part of the activities of FAPESP Research,\ud Disseminations and Innovation Center for Neuromathematics (grant\ud 2013/07699-0, S. Paulo Research Foundation). NLK is supported by a\ud FAPESP postdoctoral fellowship (grant 2016/03855-5). ACR is partially\ud supported by a CNPq fellowship (grant 306251/2014-0)

Georgia Tech's Institutional Repository

Presented at ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 27, 2005

SMARTech and Friends: Building an Enterprise Institutional Repository From a Distributed DSpace Framework at Georgia Tech

Presented at the SPARC/SPARC Europe Workshop, "Institutional Repositories: the Next Stage", Washington, D.C., November 18, 2004

Gladys Noel Bates: No Shrinking Violet in the Magnolia State

Presented at the Sixth Southern Conference on Women’s History, Athens, Georgia, June 5-7, 2003

It’s Up and Running, Now What? Strategies for Building Content in an Institutional Repository

Presented at the LITA National Forum, Denver, Colorado, October 6, 2007In the December 2, 2006 SPARC Open Access Newsletter, Peter Suber predicts that in 2007, "[Institutional repositories] will soon be a new fact of life for universities, like libraries or web sites, and the discussion will shift from their utility to the best practices for filling them." (Issue #104, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02- 06.htm, accessed 12.06.2006) Georgia Tech's DSpace based institutional repository, SMARTech, reached 10,000 items shortly after 2 years in existence. Georgia Tech has also instituted a dark archive, named Aardvark, also based on the DSpace software for inhouse management of the Archives' digital materials, to serve as the basis for future public digital exhibits. Aardvark currently houses around 1,500 records and over 240 gigabytes of materials.In August 2004, Georgia Tech Library launched SMARTech with approximately 2,500 legacy items. In the beginning, we focused on authors self-archiving pre-prints and postprints, research and technical reports, and electronic theses and dissertations. As interest in archiving other materials increased and we realized that our faculty were not properly motivated to submit their own work, we changed our approach to collecting materials for our institutional repository and added a dark archive for strictly archival material. Initially, after realizing faculty were not submitting to the repository, we focused on materials the library could easily harvest from Georgia Tech's web presence with little or no involvement necessary from the creators. At the same time, we saw the need to increase our services to capture more of the digital output of the campus while respecting the time constraints of the faculty and departments. We have launched an electronic publishing service, Epage @ Tech, to support the creation and capture of e-journals, conferences, and lecture series to facilitate scholarly communication. As we provide these tools to faculty to accomplish their goals and they in turn become more aware of the need for repositories, we are more likely to convince them to deposit their personal materials. We also provide technical support and training to departments wishing to digitize and submit their materials and partner with them to insert our services into their current workflows.We will discuss: The technical support and training we provide departments to digitize and submit their own materials; How we partner with departments to capture materials using their current electronic workflows; How we provide production services to support e-journals, conferences, and the capture of lecture series, symposia, and the like; Planned services to introduce these services into individual faculty members' workflows

ETD Programs as Building Blocks for Institutional Repositories : Laying the Foundation one Graduate Student at a Time

Presented at ETD 2004, Lexington, KY, June 5, 2004