I got email from a person today saying, and I quote,
"I must say that [the lack of a browse interface] come as a shock (*which
interface cannot browse??*)"
[Emphasis mine]
Here, a "browse interface" is one where you can get a giant list of all the
titles/authors/subjects whatever -- a view on t
your OPAC (or other system) statistics!
(Browse interfaces)
I got email from a person today saying, and I quote,
"I must say that [the lack of a browse interface] come as a shock
(*which
interface cannot browse??*)"
[Emphasis mine]
Here, a "browse interface" is one where you
Bill,
Here are relative percentages for our Horizon catalog, based on our 2008-2009
annual report:
Browse Searches 76.2%
Keyword Searches20.9%
Mulit-index Searches2.9%
That interface presents a browse search box before a keyword search box, so
browses are encouraged by the UI.
Th
If you have any notes on specifics of what your users like/need about
browse search, they would be very useful to me. We are currently
engaging in that exersize of "determine what those things are, and then
figure out if we can achieve them through methods other than browse search."
Jonathan
On Monday, May 03, 2010 3:33 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>If you have any notes on specifics of what your users like/need about browse
>search, they would be very useful to me. We are currently engaging in that
>exersize of "determine what those things are, and then figure out if we can
>achie
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Bryan Baldus
wrote:
> I can't speak for other users (particularly the generic patron user type),
> but as a
>cataloger/librarian user,
...and THERE IT IS, ladies and gentlemen.
I've started trying to keep a list of IP addresses I *know* are staff
and separate out
rarian searchers, if anything?
Jonathan
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(Browse int
Hello,
We run the catalogs for the State University Libraries of Florida. All eleven
have the browse by author and title feature (among other sequential indexes).
Here is a snapshot for today's usage (since 4am, combining all eleven
universities) from the Apache logs:
Browse Author
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Browse
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> So, Bill, you're still not certain yourself exactly what purposes browse is
> used for by actual non-librarian searchers, if anything?
Right. I'm not sure *the extent* to which it's used (data which are
necessarily going to be messy and
On 5/3/2010 16:26, Tod Olson wrote:
In addition to known-item searching, our grad students also use title browse to be
confident that we do _not_ own something. In our relevance-ranked interface, sometimes
the scholar may blame relevance ranking for "hiding" a title from them which we
don't a
onday, May 03, 2010 11:08 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] A call for your OPAC (or other system) statistics! (Browse
interfaces)
I got email from a person today saying, and I quote,
"I must say that [the lack of a browse interface] come as a shock (*which
interface can
lifornia State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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Bill Dueber [b...@dueber.com]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 11:08 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] A call for y
The ability to browse an organized list as it is currently implemented in most
library catalogs might not be a popular search method by itself, but having
such an index available as a search feature opens up the possibility of
creating a browsable virtual bookshelf if it is presented along with
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