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Good morning.

MOBIUS is pleased to announced that registration is now open for the Spring Regional Training Days. Each Training Day consists of 2 workshops. Attendees may register for one or both workshops on any Training Day.

St Louis Region

Thursday, May 6, St Louis University

9:00 am – 12:00 pm Circulation Management Functions; Scott Peterson, Trainer

1:00 – 4:00 pm Create Lists & Regular Expressions; Janine Gordon, Trainer

Springfield Region

Monday, May 17, Southwest Baptist University (Bolivar)

9:00 am – 12:00 pm Circulation Management Functions; Scott Peterson, Trainer

1:00 – 4:00 pm Create Lists & Regular Expressions; Janine Gordon, Trainer

Kansas City Region

Friday, May 21, Metropolitan Community College – Longview (Lee’s Summit)

8:30 – 11:30 am Create Lists & Regular Expressions; Janine Gordon, Trainer

12:30 – 3:30 pm Millennium Statistics & Web Management Reports; Jennifer Parsons, Trainer

Central Region

Wednesday, May 26, MOBIUS Office (Columbia)

9:00 am – 12:00 pm Circulation Management Functions; Scott Peterson, Trainer

12:30 – 3:30 pm Millennium Statistics & Web Management Reports; Jennifer Parsons, Trainer

To register for a Regional Training Day workshop, please send an email to mcoTRAIN@umsystem.edu with your name, institution, and contact information (phone and email). Please indicate the day and time (morning or afternoon) of the workshop(s) you wish to attend. Please direct any questions my way.

Thank you,

Christopher Gould

Help Desk/Training Manager

MOBIUS Consortium Office

573.882.7235 (voice only)

573.777.2624 (voice/text)

GouldC@umsystem.edu

Good Morning:

1st Choice has added a new service center in the Hannibal area, and the following labels have had their routing codes updated:

CLSTK
Culver-Stockton College
Carl Johann Memorial-Education Center
#1 College Hill
Canton, MO 63435
HBL

CPL
GC: Canton Public Library
409 Lewis Street
Canton, MO 63435
HBL

HANLG
Hannibal-LaGrange College
L.A. Foster Library
2800 Palmyra Road
Hannibal, MO 63401
HBL

HFPL
GC: Hannibal Free Public Library
200 South Fifth Street
Hannibal, MO 63401
HBL

SHCPL
GC: Shelbina Carnegie Public Library
102 N. Center St.
Shelbina, MO 63468
HBL

Any bags that are already sent will still get to the correct destination, if your institution prints out labels in advance please update your copies.

Scott Peterson
Library Support Representative
Mobius Consortium Office
3212A LeMone Blvd
Columbia, MO 65211
E-mail: sfpeter@umsystem.edu
573-882-4617 1-877-3MOBIUS (Toll free in MO)

Hello:

The label for UMKC Health Sciences has been updated as follows:

UMK University of Missouri-Kansas City Health Sci

Health Science Library

% KCMLIN 15616 E. US Highway 24 Independence, MO 64050

MCI-KCMLIN

If your print out labels in advances please make new copies.

Scott Peterson

Library Support Representative

Mobius Consortium Office

3212A LeMone Blvd Columbia, MO 65211

E-mail: sfpeter@umsystem.edu 573-882-4617 1-877-3MOBIUS (Toll free in MO)

So, we just wrapped up the second of our card sorts. What's a card sort? You can read the Wikipedia article on card sorting, but basically it's a method that allows us to get an idea of how users would classify the content of our site by asking them to group items, or cards, into groups. The first time we did an "open sort" where users were able to group the items and then *name* the categories. This time, for the "closed sort" we gave users empty groups with the names already set (based on the results of the open sort) and asked them to sort all of the cards into those groups.

If you would like to view the results of the closed sort, I have created a nicely formatted Google Doc. There is no login required.

Method for Color Coded Results

At the top, you will see the legend explaining the color codes. There wasn't a ton of space available, so I wanted to explain the method used to determine each of the "levels of agreement".

• 80% or more of users in agreement - When 80% or more of users who participated agreed that a given card should be placed into the same group, we can be pretty certain that this is the proper place.
• High agreement - Less than the 80%, but still a majority. We consider the two categories with most agreement for a given item. If the lower number  is less than half of the higher number - we take the higher one as the definitive answer. For example: Executive Committee was placed in the Committees & Task Forces group 15 times, and the About MOBIUS group only 4 times - Committees & Task Forces is where it belongs.
• Split agreement - If any two or more categories have been choosen and the difference between them is less than 50%, then it is reasonable to consider them as both. For example: MOBIUS Council was placed in Committees & Task Forces 9 times and also the About MOBIUS group 9 times. Compared directly to the previous example, this seems a little odd - but clearly our users feel very strongly that MOBIUS Council belongs in both places.

Next Step

Overall the results are very clear. We will begin constructing a full tree, and will soon be ready for the third and (hopefully) final step of actually testing the ease with which users can find a given item. Keep an eye out for that in the next 2 weeks.