General Information
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Which site did you access this survey from? (answer required)
Abraham Lincoln Digitization Project
Illinois During the Civil War
Illinois During the Gilded Age
Mark Twain's Mississippi
Prairie Fire: The Illinois Country
Other
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Where are you accessing our website from? (answer required)
Home
Work
Public access (library, university)
Other
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2.
What type of internet connection to you use most often? (answer required)
Dial-up modem
Cable modem
DSL
T1/T3
Other
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3.
What best describes you in your use of our website? (answer required)
Teacher
Student
General public
Other
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How did you find out about our website? (answer required)
Through an organization/teacher/friend
General search of internet (not specifically related to your search, but you went there anyway)
Specific search of internet (specifically related to your search)
Brochure/Mailing
Advertisement
Media reports (newspapers, radio, TV)
Other
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Navigation: The following questions relate to the ease of navigation of Lincoln/Net and Mark Twain Mississippi.
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Did you enter through the main page or go directly to a content page? (answer required)
Main page
Content Page
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6.
Did you use the information and links under 'How to Use This Site'? (answer required)
Yes
No
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7.
Rate the ease of use of 'How to Use This Site' in your navigation of the website. (Answer this question only if you said 'yes' for Question 6.)
Very Difficult
Difficult
Average
Easy
Very Easy
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8. Did you use the links for the
type of primary material across the top (text, image, video, sound, interactive
resource)?
(answer required)
Yes
No
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9.
Rate the ease of use of the links along the top for the type of primary material in your navigation of the website. (Answer this question only if you said 'yes' for Question 8.)
Very Difficult
Difficult
Average
Easy
Very Easy
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10.
Did you use the links for the interpretive material on the left side? (answer required)
Yes
No
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11.
Rate the ease of use of the links for the interpretive material on the left side of the page in your navigation of the website. (Answer this question only if you said 'yes' for Question 10.)
Very Difficult
Difficult
Average
Easy
Very Easy
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Text database: The following questions relate to the ease of use when searching the text database.
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12.
Did you use any of the search pages for looking through the database? If your answer is no, please go to question 17. (answer required)
Yes
No
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13.
Which types of searches did you try? Select all that apply.
Author
Title
Theme
Type
Genre
Date
Search full text
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14.
At any time, did you use the user documentation on how to use the search pages (located below the search boxes)?
Yes
No
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15.
Please rate the effectiveness of the help information in improving your search strategies, if used.
Very effective
Somewhat effective
Neither effective nor ineffective
Somewhat ineffective
Very ineffective
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16.
Please rate the ease of use of the results page (if applicable).
Very Difficult
Difficult
Average
Easy
Very Easy
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Image Database: The following questions relate to ease of use when searching the image database.
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17.
Did you use the Image link on the top of the page? (answer required)
If your answer is 'No' skip to question 25.
Yes
No
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18.
Did you search or browse the images?
Search
Browse
Both
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19.
If you searched for images, which type of searches did you try? Select all that apply.
Title
Date
Creator
Theme
Category
Type
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20.
Rate the usefulness of the images retreived.
Very effective
Somewhat effective
Neither effective or ineffective
Somewhat ineffective
Very ineffective
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21.
Rate the quality of images retreived.
Excellent
Very Good
Good
Fair
Poor
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22.
Did you view any images which required the Djvu Plug-in?. If not skip to question 25.
Yes
No
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23.
Describe the download time of the Djvu images.
Fast
Medium
Slow
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24.
Rate the quality of Djvu Images.
Excellent
Very Good
Good
Fair
Poor
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The following questions relate to the content of the database.
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25.
Please state any suggestions that would aid in your ability to navigate the search pages.
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26.
Please state any difficulties you had in performing text or image searches, if any.
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27.
Please rate the usefulness of our website.
Excellent
Very Good
Good
Fair
Poor
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28.
Please tell us what kinds of materials you would like to see included in the database. Subject suggestions, data type suggestions and specific material suggestions welcome.
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Overall experience with our website.
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29.
How would you rate your impression of the appearance of our website?
Very favorable
Favorable
Neither favorable nor unfavorable
Unfavorable
Very unfavorable
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30.
How would you rate your overall satisfaction with our website?
Very satisfied
Somewhat satisfied
Neutral
Somewhat dissatisfied
Dissatisfied
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31.
What is the likelihood of you using our website again?
Very Likely
Likely
Neutral
Unlikely
Very Unlikely
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Thank you for giving us your valuable feedback. If you have further questions or suggestions, please email
Drew E. VandeCreek, Project Director drew@niu.edu
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