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Subject: Re: [LDR] Maryland Archives -- George Goddard [and beyond]
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:42:54 EDT
In a message dated 8/11/2002 12:27:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
> This comment is a good bit puzzling. It should be the second link on the
> right of the MSA home page map image, below "Maryland Manual". I've
> accessed this site from many computers and the AOM link is always in the
> same place. Do you use a text-only version or something? Does anyone else
> have this problem?
>
John and all,
I was responding to what the most apparent way to go would be if someone said
"Go search the Maryland Archives ; the documents are there!"...again we are
back to dealing with websites and how best to construct them. I recommend
you look again.
Pretend someone told you to search the "Maryland Archives documents" and you
don't know anything about the website and don't do Maryland research. You
are given the homepage to do your search: http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/
What stands out in large letters below the map is: "Search the Archives"
The much smaller link you reference on the right says "Archives of Maryland"
-- not even Archives of Maryland Online, or digital/electronic documents, no
reference to specifics.. Why wouldn't one think that the "Search the
Archives" link wouldn't do the trick? Often times in such a situation at a
website, the link on the right might just be an "about us and our
collections" statement, maybe with a search link lost at the bottom or in
small print somewhere easily overlooked. There is no "All About the Maryland
Archives Link".
All in all, given the multiple search engine site, the "Search the Site" link
under the map and the seemingly entire-site-encompassing second link to the
right of the map...it is not at all apparent to me, but maybe to everybody
else, how to search the MD Archives Online "E-Documents".
Janet
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