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 [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2007’
Quick OPAC Survey
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 [...]
Revish and reviews
Just spotted that Revish are gearing up for launching at the end of March On the blog, Dan mentions that the site will provide APIs for getting at the data and I can't wait to see if we can do anything with that data in our OPAC. I quietly flicked on the ability to add [...]
UK Library 2.0 Un-Conference anyone?
All the talk about unconferences over at Library 2.0 Ning got me wondering how many people would come to one based in the UK? If you've not come across the term before, an unconference tends to have a general theme (e.g. Library 2.0) but the actual agenda for the event is decided on the day [...]
Hey, whatcha lookin' at?
Just for the heck of it, I've started logging details of the full bib pages displayed in the OPAC to get a feel for what are the most looked at books. Once we've got enough data, it'll be interesting to cross reference that with the actual number of physical copies we own for each title [...]
What a day!
I'm finally back home, 15 hours after setting off at an unmentionable hour to travel down to the CILIP event in London today. I'm a creature of habit, and my habit is to wake up gradually at about 6:45am in the morning — getting up at 5am just doesn't feel right I'm too knackered to [...]
Horizon — the five stages of grief
Well, I finally passed through the "denial" stage yesterday evening (which was partly why I didn't post the information I knew until the formal announcement), slipped in "anger" overnight (good job I can never remember my nightmares!), which I guess puts me firmly into the "bargaining" stage today… I wonder if I rang up SirsiDynix [...]
RIP: Horizon
The initial announcement has now gone out to SirsiDynix customers — the all singing, all dancing Horizon 8.0 will not receive a general release. Instead SirsiDynix will concentrate their efforts on developing another new system (codenamed "Rome") which will be built on the Unicorn architecture.
Rumo(u)rs
Oh boy… Don't you just hate it when someone tells you that something major is about to happen, but you really don't want to repeat it because it might not be true and you'd just be spreading unfounded gossip. But, then again, it's so absolutely huuuuuuge that you can't find a hat big enough to [...]
If you build it, will they come? (part 2)
I hate being reminded of how quickly time flies! Nearly a year ago, I added a post about how five of our OPAC tweaks were being used: 1) "did you mean?" spell checker suggestions for failed searches (more info) 2) serendipity keyword suggestions for failed searches (more info) 3) "people who borrowed this also borrowed…" [...]