Bryony and I have been in Barcelona now for just over 24 hours and my feet are already knackered from all the walking we've done! The joint DUG/EUUG SirsiDynix Conference starts on Wednesday, but we decided to fly out for a few days of sightseeing in advance. A few of the photos from today and [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2007’
Oh God, I feel so old!
Quite a few things have happened this year that have reminded me I'm in my mid 30s. The latest is this article on the BBC News website: How the Spectrum began a revolution …yep, it's 25 years ago today since Sir Clive Sinclair unleashed the follow up to the ZX81! I can clearly remember the [...]
William Morris Gallery
Just spotted that the Waltham Forest Council is cutting back funding to the William Morris Gallery in London. I'm sure many of you will already be familiar with his work but, if not, check out the Wikipedia article. If you are an aficionado of Morris' work, then you might want to head over to the [...]
100,000 ideas!
I totally failed to spot that the Library 2.0 Idea Generator has now created over 100,000 ideas! I've no idea what the 100,000th idea actually was, but I hope it was "Build an Idea Generator and sell it to Google for $1,000,000". Around about 1% of the ideas were of high enough quality that the [...]
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 something [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
OPAC Survey results – part 4
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 [...]
OPAC Survey results – part 3
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 [...]