Posts under ‘OPAC Survey’

Technology Adoption Let's look at how widely the 10 features have been implemented now, and also how many respondents are planning to implement them soon… If we then plug that into the Technology Adoption Lifecycle (see this blog post for more info), then we can see which group the feature is currently with. If we [...]

The last 3 graphs for today… 1) Feature Importance (UK Respondents) The difference in responses between UK (blue line) and non-UK respondents (green line). One of the previous graphs shows that not many UK respondents are planning to implement faceted browsing, and here we see that the perceived importance in the UK is much lower [...]

Here's the next batch of results — this time lots of pretty graphs The shorthand descriptions for the features are as follows: stealth OPAC — embedding the OPAC in other applications and getting the OPAC to where the user is did you mean — spelling suggestions for search keywords enriched — third party book cover [...]

A few hours earlier than planned, but the informal OPAC Survey has now closed. Many thanks to everyone who responded — all 729 of you! Here's how the responses break down by geographical region: After a few days, I added a question that allowed respondents to identify what type of library they worked for — [...]

Wow — the OPAC survey has now had over 650 responses! I really can't say this enough times, but thanks to everyone who has responded so far. http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/opac.html The survey has already been posted on the SirsiDynix Horizon and IPAC mailing lists, but it would be great to get more responses from the users of [...]

I'm giving a short presentation about OPACs at the Library and Information Show in April and I'd be really grateful to any librarians reading this blog post who would be happy to respond to a quick survey about the subject: http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/opac.html I'm planning to include results from this quick survey in my presentation and I'll [...]