Hi Dave,
I'm a teacher librarian & recently started a community based blog for getting boys to read - http://GettingBoysToRead.com. Please send me a friend request if you'd like to network, share ideas, and learn more about getting boys to read.
Hi Dave.
Nice to hear from you. Thanks for adding me as a friend. Do you know Dr Jessica Malay? She is an academic at Huddersfield who is a good friend of mine from when she was here at Kent.
A few years ago, I visited the Yorkshire Dales (specifically Reeth, Bainbridge, Butter Tubs Pass, Castle Bolton, White Scar caves, Aysgarth Falls etc) with my boyfriend who is from the area.
I won't be able to fully crunch the numbers until the survey closes on the 14th, but (so far) UK respondents have consistently rated the importance of each feature lower than the other major countries (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and USA), with the exception of "enriched content".
It will be interesting to speculate why this is ...are UK libraries less aware of these features? ...are they aware but they have other priorities or simply don't regard them as being important? ...are we just a bunch of cynical whiners?
Interestingly, New Zealand is almost the opposite -- very few of the respondents have implemented (or plan to implement) the "more cowbell" features, but they often give the features very high importance. In fact, the only feature that seems to be widely implemented in NZ is enriched content (86% of respondents have it).
Some of the other trends appearing in the survey are that:
1) people who have implemented a feature consistently give that feature an average importance higher than those who haven't implemented it
2) people who are planning to implement a feature nearly always rate its importance higher than those who have already implemented it
Good guess, but wrong.....so I can't answer your question about Encore. My lot has been in Bristol for almost 30 years though not under our current name. My recent experience with public libraries is that a web presence and a good Library 2.0 type OPAC don't figure highly on their list of priorities; for example we can offer almost everything on your 'More Cowbell' list but many libraries don't seem interested. Perhaps your survey will prove me wrong.
There definitely seems to be a difference between what respondents regard as being important features in a modern OPAC and what vendors are currently supplying today.
Your last sentence implies that you don't think library users (and vendors?) see these as being important features to offer in an OPAC? If so, what's "Encore" all about?
OK Dave .. happy to have you as a friend. We should keep in touch! I began my library life in Calderdale (Sowerby Bridge actually) just over the hill from where you are and still think of myself as a Yorkshire Librarian (though as you see I am now in Bristol). All my children are Yorkshire folk (my wife worked in Sowebry Bridge Library too and now works in our local library here) if that counts for anything. Current thing is - what are you finding out about OPACs? I think if you talked to system suppliers as well as users you would find out some surprising things.... well some system suppliers anyway.
HA!!! I LOVE the League of Gentlemen...I wish the movie was released in the states - but I've heard from someone on their website it's not going to be relseased here...sigh...
I just started watching it before Xmas and now have all the series...and have been obsessively compelled to watch it and walk around asking "are you local?"
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I'm a teacher librarian & recently started a community based blog for getting boys to read - http://GettingBoysToRead.com. Please send me a friend request if you'd like to network, share ideas, and learn more about getting boys to read.
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I'm on the Horizon-l list but I didn't realize there was an IPAC list! That would explain a lot. :-) I'm off to search for it.
As for your other comments, I implemented the EZProxy, which *was* surprisingly easy, but it has nothing to do with our HIP.
Is that really you in the photo with the hat?
Nice to hear from you. Thanks for adding me as a friend. Do you know Dr Jessica Malay? She is an academic at Huddersfield who is a good friend of mine from when she was here at Kent.
A few years ago, I visited the Yorkshire Dales (specifically Reeth, Bainbridge, Butter Tubs Pass, Castle Bolton, White Scar caves, Aysgarth Falls etc) with my boyfriend who is from the area.
Great to see you here. Enjoy your blog and check your tag cloud almost every day!
-Steve
It will be interesting to speculate why this is ...are UK libraries less aware of these features? ...are they aware but they have other priorities or simply don't regard them as being important? ...are we just a bunch of cynical whiners?
Interestingly, New Zealand is almost the opposite -- very few of the respondents have implemented (or plan to implement) the "more cowbell" features, but they often give the features very high importance. In fact, the only feature that seems to be widely implemented in NZ is enriched content (86% of respondents have it).
Some of the other trends appearing in the survey are that:
1) people who have implemented a feature consistently give that feature an average importance higher than those who haven't implemented it
2) people who are planning to implement a feature nearly always rate its importance higher than those who have already implemented it
Good guess, but wrong.....so I can't answer your question about Encore. My lot has been in Bristol for almost 30 years though not under our current name. My recent experience with public libraries is that a web presence and a good Library 2.0 type OPAC don't figure highly on their list of priorities; for example we can offer almost everything on your 'More Cowbell' list but many libraries don't seem interested. Perhaps your survey will prove me wrong.
I guess being based in Bristol makes you a III man?
The survey is bringing in some really useful data.
There definitely seems to be a difference between what respondents regard as being important features in a modern OPAC and what vendors are currently supplying today.
Your last sentence implies that you don't think library users (and vendors?) see these as being important features to offer in an OPAC? If so, what's "Encore" all about?
I just started watching it before Xmas and now have all the series...and have been obsessively compelled to watch it and walk around asking "are you local?"
LOADS & LOADS of KILLINGS!
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