1. The DLI Toolkit: Update
Marie-Claire Lauzon
Statistics Canada
ACCOLEDS 2007
Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC
December 4, 2007

2. Overview DLI Survival Kit DLI Collection Interface Prototype
History
Content
Recent Modifications
Next Steps
DLI Collection Interface Prototype
Listserv (dlilist) Search Tool Prototype

3. DLI Survival Kit – History
DLI created (1996)
New data centres open across Canada
New DLI contacts have access to data
Brian McNally First Aid CD-ROM developed at UNB (1997)
An updated and expanded online reference manual, the DLI Survival Kit, is created for DLI contacts (2007)

4. DLI Survival Kit - Content
Table of Contents
9 sections

5. DLI Survival Kit – Recent Modifications
DLI National Training Day Demo
Feedback from DLI Contacts
Content
Presentation
Editorial
Incorporated suggestions
Translated the Kit (Gaëtan Drolet)
Created updated web version

6. DLI Survival Guide - Next Steps
Perform usability testing
Make the Kit available on the DLI website
Develop new content
Expand the geography section
Create a section on the DLI Research Paper Series

7. DLI Collection Interface Prototype

8. DLI Collection Interface Prototype

9. DLI Collection Interface Prototype
Next Steps
Continue to develop searching and browsing functionality
Complete interface design
Perform usability testing
Launch the interface and use it with the DLI static pages
Develop a fully independent interface

10. Listserv (dlilist) Search Tool Prototype

11. Listserv (dlilist) Search Tool Prototype
Supports Boolean
AND, OR, NOT
Must be capitalized
Use “ ” to search as phrase
Use * to truncate

12. Search Results Compared
Prototype faster
Primary tool shows search terms in bold in results
Primary tool shows total # of documents searched and # found

13. Next Steps Request feedback from the DLI community
Complete the prototype’s development
Functionality
Bold search terms in results list
Display # of documents searched and retrieved
Show author’s name
Search within results
Interface

14. Thank you!