Testing the
Usability of a WebPac
Test
1. Does Washington State University Vancouver campus Library have a copy of
Gone with the Wind?
2. Does Eastern Washington University Library have a copy of Gone with the Wind?
3. Which of the WSU libraries have Hamlet by Shakespeare?
4. None of the WSU libraries have a copy of Angels and Amazons, what do you do?
5. Does WSU Libraries own the following: Albertson, John. Supermarkets in the
Northwest. Advertising Age 68: 12-25 (1997).
6. Find material in the libraries by IBM.
7. Find books by Laurie Garrett at any WSU location. Look at the detailed information
for one of these books.
8. Find books written about Toni Morrison.
9. Do WSU Pullman libraries have a book called Guns, germs, and steel by Diamond?
10. Do WSU Pullman libraries have a copy of the periodical Audubon?
11. What years does Owen library have of this periodical?
12. Did the Owen library receive the Sept/Oct 1997 issue?
13. Is volume 94 (1992) of Audubon on the shelf at the Owen Library?
14. Do the WSU libraries own the government document, Domestic Price Directory?
15. Locate the titles of other items shelved near this government document.
16. Does the library subscribe to a journal with the ISSN (International Standard
Serial Number) of 0002-9114?
17. Locate books at WSU Pullman on the use of steroids by athletes.
Look at a detailed record for one of these books.
18. Using only the information on the screen and a mouse click, find more
items on the use of steroids by athletes.
19. Check the Griffin Catalog to see if there is an item available with the
call number HE 1.2:Ad 7/2.
20. What material has Lynn Levy put in the library for her English 402
students to use?
21. Look up the author Evans, Marian. Read the screen and find a
listing the books by this author.
22. What do you do if you have chosen a title search and then discover
you really want to do an author search?
23. What do you do if you have chosen a title search and then discover
you really want to do a call number
search?
24. Do a title search for Animal Behaviour. (yes, include the u here).
Choose the first item in the list. Limit this resulting list to periodicals only.
25. Is this title available in microform?
26. Is this title available in paper copy?
27. Go to the online version.
28. Return to the main Griffin Catalog search page.
29. In the "What library do you want to search?" box choose Entire Catalog.
Do a subject heading search for juarez, benito. Find a portrait and
display it.
30. Locate this book in the catalog DF 275.W92.
31. Is this book checked out or will you find it in the library?
32. Locate a copy of Nature (this is a scientific journal (periodical))
33. Do a keyword search on steroids. The following questions all deal
with these search results:
34. Put the resulting list in order with the newest displaying first.
35. Return to your original search on steroids. Are any of these items at
WSU Vancouver?
36. Return to your original search on steroids. Are any of these items
in German?
37. Return to your original search on steroids. Are any of these items
journals (periodicals)?
38. Return to your original search on steroids. Get a list of the books
published from 1970-1985
39. Return to your original search on steroids. Are any of these
items videos?
40. Do a keyword search on teenage drinking and find a quick way to get this list
on teenage drinking with publication dates showing.
41. Email three of the items from this list.
42. Print three of the items from this list.
43. Go to the part of the catalog where you would look for periodical
articles on a topic.
44. Go back to the page where you chose to search the Griffin Catalog.
45. Make a suggestion, online, for improvement of the catalog.
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