Working Group on
Public Electronic Access Systems
(PEAS)

Samples — Sites Worth Seeing

General Search Engines

• Ask Jeeves
• Google

Samples — Development Principles

• Policies and Guidelines for Publishing on the World Wide Web at the University of California, Berkeley
• Public Service Electronic Access System Development Principles, Draft — July 11, 2000
• Usability Heuristics for the Web (Ellen has this in paper.)
• Ten Usability Heuristics, J.Nielsen

Background Documents

• CDL User feedback
  • Web Helpline Feedback Summary - April 2000
  • Web Helpline Feedback Summary - October 1999
• Digital Library Advisory Committee Report, July 27, 1999
• E-Berkeley
  • Building e-Berkeley
  • Commission on Undergraduate Education Final Report
  • CAUTION, only open the following link using Internet Explorer.
    Web Portals, by Howard Strauss, Princeton University
• Graph Structure of the Internet, by Broder, Kumar, et al
  (press release; related article: The "Bow Tie" Theory of Webspace by K.K.Campbell)
• Customization / personalization
  • MyLibrary@CDL Project Page
    
  • Report on the MyLibrary@CDL Focus Group held at UCB
    
  • Personalizing the Digital Library, Roy Tennant
• User-centered design
  • ADA issues
    • ADA Compliance for electronic and information technology
    • A Bit of History – How the Problem of Accessibility Arose
  • Interview with Don Norman on Learner-Centered Design
  • Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, by Steve Krug. Hayden Books. 2000.
  • Anatomy of a (More) Usable Design:UCSD Libraries Include Audience Perspective In Web Site Development Process , by Laura Smart, et al.
  • 13 common objections against user requirements analysis, and why you should not believe them
• Zipf distrubtion

Members

• Bill Brown, The Bancroft Library
• Jan Carter, Humanities
• Laine Farley, CDL
• Gail Ford, staff to the Committee. Library Analyst.
• Bernie Hurley, Library Technologies
• Robert Knapp, Professor-Classics
• Norma Kobzina, Natural Resources and Biosciences Library
• Jeff McNeill, Graduate student, Computer Science
• Ellen Meltzer, Chair. Teaching Library
• Barbara Morgan, IS&T
• Jim Ronnigen, Earth Sciences/Maps Library
• Gary Peete, Business and Economics Library
• Lisa Weber, Library Systems