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Evaluation of an Online Catalog
Assignment
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. . .
Steps 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
Selecting OPAC Softwarefor
Evaluation
Selecting OPAC Software for Evaluation
Compare oranges to oranges
University Library OPAC
Children’s OPAC
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)
Finding the Corporate IdentifierNottingham Trent University
harry potter
Finding the Corporate IdentifierNottingham Trent University
Finding the Corporate IdentifierNottingham Trent University
Selecting Only One CatalogAuburn University
Selecting Only One CatalogAuburn University
harry potter
Selecting Only One CatalogAuburn University
Selecting Only One CatalogAuburn University
harry potter
Selecting Only One CatalogAuburn University
Finding OPACs for Evaluation
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donnab/lis670/online_catalogs.html
Exploring and Evaluatingan
OPAC
View as a Novice
Do we knowwhat to do?
What will the system do?
View as a Novice
Try It Out
coming of age in Samoa
Try It Out
Do we knowwhat to do
at this point?
Help
To save or print information about specific records ...
WebVoyáge Help Titles
To display the record details associated with a title, click on the underlined title...
Context-Specific Help
Try It Out
Detailed Record
Is this clear?
Help
You also have the options...
WebVoyáge Help Holdings Information
Context-Specific Help
Detailed Record
Search Screen
View as a Novice
Search Screen
Generate an Error Message
Leave text box blank
Generate a Error Message
Type in gibberish
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System Response
Is the language benign?
Is this message helpful?
Steps Today
Form a group with at least 3 persons
Decide on catalogs to be evaluated
Decide on evaluation criteria
Evaluation Criteria
CriteriaError messages are benign and helpful 1 2 3 4 5
Disagree Agree
Positive statement
Rating scale
Comparing Catalogs
CriteriaError messages are benign and helpful 3
USC
There is plenty of lavender
4
Total 5
Harvard Yale
4 3
2 2
6 7
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