THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY (TEL) / GABRIEL QUESTIONNAIRE ON INTERNET USAGE & THE
GABRIEL WEBSITE
Gabriel, the World Wide Web service of the European National Libraries, acts
as a gateway to the holdings and treasures of 41 European National Libraries
from 39 members of the Council of Europe. Gabriel's mission is:
" ... to provide information about Europe's National Libraries, their
collections and their services in order to facilitate access to them, and to
foster the development of new services based on a shared infrastructure."
Since the launch of the Gabriel service in 1997, interest in and usage of
the website has increased each year. The service was restructured and
redesigned in 2002 in order to meet the changing requirements of its users.
The new Gabriel service also takes advantage of the latest developments in
Internet technology.
In addition, Gabriel plays an important role in the development of The
European Library [http://www.europeanlibrary.org/], a project aimed at
developing a pan-European library that will allow users to find and download
books and other collections from various European libraries.
In order to obtain a better understanding of what users expect from the
Gabriel website, and to learn more about their online behaviour, the Gabriel
Team has produced an online questionnaire.
This questionnaire is divided into 5 sections:
A. About you
B. Your Internet usage
C. You and the library
D. You and the current Gabriel website
E. You and the future Gabriel website
There are 29 questions, mostly multiple choice, and the questionnaire should
only take about 5 minutes to complete.
In order to develop the service to meet the future needs of its users, we
would very much appreciate the assistance of readers in completing the
questionnaire.
The results of the questionnaire will be made available as soon as possible
on the Gabriel website.
Please let us know what you think of the Gabriel service!
Thank You
The Gabriel Team
The questionnaire can be found on all of the five Gabriel websites:
http://www.kb.nl/gabriel/
http://www.ddb.de/gabriel/
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/gabriel/
http://nuk.uni-lj.si/gabriel/
http://www.bl.uk/gabriel/
Posted on behalf of Gabriel
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John Lowery
Online Development Analyst
British Library Research & Development
British Library
Boston Spa
Wetherby
West Yorkshire
LS23 7BQ
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1937 546551
Fax: +44 (0) 1937 546586
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