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Comment: adding Sally Smith, which was just added to the overall personas today

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  • Wants to find relevant sources, regardless of format (manuscript, print, image) across all repositories at Harvard.
  • Needs easily accessible contact and policy information about each repository, including how to plan a visit and how to request materials for use in the repository’s reading room.
  • Needs to be able to limit searches by broad date spans.
  • Is interested in finding online resources where available.
  • Wants to be able to save and sort result sets, including locations and identifiers for each resource.
  • Wants to be able to annotate/tag results for her own use.
  • Wants to be able to integrate results in citation management software (such as RefWorks, Zotero)
  • Needs permanent links to descriptive metadata.
  • Needs permanent links to online resources.

 

Sally Smith, 35, is a research assistant who has been working with the same author for several years and does the initial collection screening for her academic partner.  (Provided by Kari S.)

 

  •  Wants to use an online collections database to search across the archives and manuscript and publications in the Archives and Special collections.
  • Wants to export finding aid information
  • Is frustrated that she can't export only the relevant portions from the collection description that she wants - only info from Series 5 but not the full 100pg finding aid.
  • Would like to have the Box / Folder information exportable for emailing to the Reference staff for retreival.
  • Is confused why searching is limited to within one collection, when limiting searches.