The Value of a Note: A Finding Aid Usability Study
From the source: "This study is intended to advance our understanding on this matter, responding to two questions: Do researchers use collection or series level notes valued by archivists, such as scope and content and arrangement notes, in order to understand what is in a collection? Or, do users rely mostly on information found at lower levels, describing what might be in a single file or the content of a single item? And, working in the post "MPLP" context, if granular description is not available in a finding aid, are users able to ascertain what is in a collection and if it is relevant to their search?"
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