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- Background:
- Name: Julian
- Age: 27
- Location: New York City
- Year: 4th year graduate student (typically spent teaching, researching, and writing his dissertation)
- Major: American Studies, interests include History of American Music, 20th Century Cultural & Intellectual History, Material Culture, Public Humanities
- Technology: MacBook Air, Android phone
- Use case:
- Julian is only on campus three days a week. These are the days that he teaches and holds office hours. The rest of the week, he is based in the city. Because he is only at Yale for a few days a week, he games the library online systems in order to maximize his time on campus. He checks carefully to see what he can view online and what he needs to use on site. Currently, Julian is preparing an article on representations of musicians in the popular press. At this point he is not focused on any particular musician but wants to look at newspaper clippings, posters, caricatures, and photographs for major 20th century musicians. Overall, Julian hopes to tie this work into his dissertation, focusing on Copland and his network.
- Would appreciate anything that will make creating citations easier.
- Is curious about which of Yale's collections other researchers in his field have found useful, and whether other researchers have published material on Copland using sources held by Yale.
Undergraduate Student
- Alex, age 19, Junior
- Lives on campus
- Computer savvy
- A light library user; has never done research in special collections before and has made little to no use of databases or finding aids
- Unfamiliar with institution’s holdings, but looking for an interesting senior essay topic that will make heavy use of primary sources at institution
- Easily confused by jargon. Expects that searching ArchivesSpace will be intuitive (requiring no prior training) and immediately produce relevant results
- Will be frustrated if it isn't immediately obvious whether or not materials have been digitized. If materials have been digitized, this user wants to be able to access them instantly.
- Interested in accessing transcriptions and audiovisual materials when available.
- Would like to be able to save and share links to finding aids that are of interest.
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- Morgan, age 35, photo editor for an academic publisher
- On a tight deadline
- Looking for appropriate photographs to publish in a professor's latest book
- Has no familiarity with ArchivesSpace and expects that searching will be confined to photographic materials only, and wants to be able to instantly peruse any digitized images and their relevant metadata (including citation line)
- Needs to know any relevant information about copyright upfront in order to know what images to pursue, and how to go about obtaining the necessary permissions.
- Would like to order copies of interesting images, and will be frustrated if the steps toward doing so are not immediately apparent.
- May want to speak with staff directly, and needs to clearly understand which repository at the given institution to contact regarding any given image and how.
Academic Library/Special Collections Personas (added by Matt).
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