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:
Posts from ‘September, 2007’
ILS rumblings
My spider senses have been well and truly tingled! Rumours are starting to circulate about another major ILS merger/acquisition. I find it hard to believe that the current ILS marketplace could possibly support another one of these (after the Sirsi & Dynix and Ex Libris & Endeavor mergers) but, then again, I do like surprises
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%) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Library Refurbishment
The entrance floor of the University of Huddersfield Library has been closed all summer for a major refurbishment. Today, we opened the doors to the "Student Centre" (the new name for the entrance floor) in time for Welcome Weekend and the start of Fresher's Week. Apart from the refurbishment, the new Student Centre hosts service [...]
Hitchcock blog
When I started this blog in 2005, it was primarily to support the Hitchcock site, which started up in 2003. The title of the blog ("Self-plagiarism is style") being a quote from Hitchcock. Two years on, the most popular posts seem to be those about libraries so I've decided to fork the blog — this [...]
NAG 2007 Conference workshop
I think I've just about recovered from my first NAG Conference, which was held this year at Keele University… A big "thank you" to everyone who came along to the "Web 2.0 – It's Okay to Play" workshops and I hope it sparked one or two ideas that you might want to pursue! Some of [...]
Sunset over Huddersfield
Come the End of the World, I suspect the sky might look a little like it did this evening… (more images)