Almost 2 years ago, 729 of you generously took time to fill out a survey about OPACs (archived here). You can find a selection of blog posts about the results here.
I'm pleased to say that a follow-up survey is now being conducted by Bowker and I'd encourage as many of you as possible to [...]
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OPAC Survey 2009
OPAC Survey – Q2c – OPAC Envy
Question 2 – Cutting Edge or Yesterday's News
Q2c) Have you ever suffered from "OPAC envy" when looking at someone else's OPAC?
"yes": 565 (77.5%)"no": 151 (20.7%)no response: 13 (1.8%)
response vs percentage of respondents:
OPAC Survey – Q2b – OPAC Age
Question 2 – Cutting Edge or Yesterday's News
Q2b) If "2007" represents a cutting edge OPAC with all the features both you and your users would expect, how far in the past do you feel your current OPAC is?
mode response: 2005number of respondents: 724
Although the most common response was 2005, the majority (56%) of respondents picked [...]
OPAC Survey – Q2a – Meeting User Needs and Expectations
Question 2 – Cutting Edge or Yesterday's News
Q2a) On a scale of 1 to 10, how well do you think your OPAC meets the needs and expectations of your users?
average response out of 10: 4.56mode response out of 10: 3number of respondents: 727
More worrying than the average response, the most common response was just 3 [...]
OPAC Survey – Q1 – Overall Happiness
Question 1 – OPAC Happiness
Q1a) On a scale of 1 to 10 (where 1 is extremely unhappy and 10 is extremely happy), how happy are you with your OPAC?
average response out of 10: 5.18mode response out of 10: 7number of respondents: 729
response out of 10 vs number of respondents:
OPAC Survey – Final Results
If you've come to this page via the CILIP Update article, please note that the published article should have been credited to "Dave Pattern, Lynn Stevens, and Lisa Balman". The article was very much a collaborative effort by all three of us, and I'm deeply indebted to Lynn and Lisa for their help.
I suspect [...]
OPAC Survey results – part 8
Library and Information Show 2007
I've just about recovered from LiS 2007 and hopefully I didn't cram too much into the 30 minutes I had for my session!
There's a few photos from the event on Flickr…
OPAC Survey
I think the previous post will be the last batch of graphs unless I uncover [...]
OPAC Survey results – part 7
Yesterday, Owen Stephens asked for more details about feature importance breakdowns for each vendor by type of library.
As a caveat, please take into account the number of respondents for each group:
Talis – 6 academic
SirsiDynix – 23 academic & 33 public
III – 22 academic & 7 public
Ex Libris – 51 academic
That leaves 46 other academic and [...]
OPAC Survey results – part 6
Part way through the survey, I added an optional question to allow respondents to specify which ILS product they use.
Here's the breakdown of average responses to the following questions (which all asked the respondents to give a rating out of 10)…
1) easy for you — how easy do you (i.e. the respondent) find your OPAC [...]
OPAC Survey results – part 5
Some more graphs — this time, further breakdowns of "feature importance"…
1) Academic v Public
2) Australian Respondents
3) Canadian Respondents
4) New Zealand Respondents
5) UK Respondents
6) American Respondents