Digital Library Federation Forum, April 12,
2006
Unbundling the ILS: Deploying an e-commerce
catalog search solution
n10 undergraduate students
–5 with Endeca
catalog
–5 with old Web2
OPAC
nEndeca performed as well as OPAC for known-item searching
–89% Endeca tasks
completed ‘easily’ (8/9)
–71% OPAC tasks
completed ‘easily’ (15/21)
nEndeca performs better than OPAC for topical
searching
–61% Endeca tasks
completed ‘easily’ (19/31)
–3% Endeca tasks
completed as ‘hard’ (1/31)
–33% OPAC tasks
completed ‘easily’ (13/39)
–26% OPAC tasks
completed as ‘hard’ (10/39)
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