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Evaluation of an Online Catalog Assignment

Evaluation of an Online Catalog Assignment. The Scenario.

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Evaluation of an Online Catalog Assignment

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  1. Evaluation of an Online CatalogAssignment

  2. The Scenario Your institution, the Lily and James Potter Memorial Library, has decided to upgrade to a new Web-based OPAC (online public access catalog). You have been appointed to form a committee that will recommend a vendor to provide the software for your new catalog. Your committee should have three or four members. As part of the research process each committee member will access a Web-based catalog, evaluate it, and report back to the committee. . .

  3. Form a group of 3 or more persons • Decide on catalogs to be evaluated • Decide on evaluation criteria • Each person explores and evaluates an OPAC • Compare evaluations and decide on which OPAC to recommend • Submit individual evaluations, your comparisons, and your decision Steps

  4. Selecting OPAC Softwarefor Evaluation

  5. Selecting OPAC Software for Evaluation • Compare oranges to oranges

  6. University Library OPAC

  7. Children’s OPAC

  8. Selecting OPAC Software for Evaluation • Utah State University (Encore from Innovative Interfaces) • Dartmouth College (WebPAC Pro from Innovative Interfaces) • Nottingham Trent University (Primo from ExLibris)

  9. Nottingham Trent University Finding the Corporate Identifier harry potter

  10. Nottingham Trent University Finding the Corporate Identifier

  11. Nottingham Trent University Finding the Corporate Identifier

  12. Auburn University Selecting Only One Catalog

  13. Auburn University Selecting Only One Catalog harry potter

  14. Auburn University Selecting Only One Catalog

  15. Auburn University Selecting Only One Catalog harry potter

  16. Auburn University Selecting Only One Catalog

  17. Finding OPACs for Evaluation http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donnab/lis670/online_catalogs.html

  18. Exploring and EvaluatinganOPAC

  19. View as a Novice What will the system do? Do we know what to do?

  20. View as a Novice

  21. Try It Out coming of age in Samoa

  22. Try It Out Do we know what to do at this point?

  23. Help WebVoyáge Help Titles To display the record details associated with a title, click on the underlined title... To save or print information about specific records ... Context-Specific Help

  24. Try It Out

  25. Detailed Record Is this clear?

  26. Help WebVoyáge Help Holdings Information You also have the options... Context-Specific Help

  27. Detailed Record

  28. Search Screen

  29. View as a Novice

  30. Search Screen

  31. Generate an Error Message Leave text box blank

  32. Generate a Error Message asdfsdf Type in gibberish

  33. System Response Is the language benign? Is this message helpful?

  34. Steps Today • Form a group with at least 3 persons • Decide on catalogs to be evaluated • Decide on evaluation criteria

  35. Evaluation Criteria Criteria Disagree Agree Error messages are benign and helpful 1 2 3 4 5 Rating scale Positive statement

  36. Comparing Catalogs Criteria USC Harvard Yale Error messages are benign and helpful 3 4 3 4 2 2 There is plenty of lavender 5 6 7 Total

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