Digital Library Federation Forum, April 12,
2006
Unbundling the ILS: Deploying an e-commerce
catalog search solution
nRelevance *most* important
–“Once I scroll
through a page, I get pretty discouraged about the results...”
–Web2 OPAC participant looking for resources on cat
health
n‘Keyword’ term less intuitive / trusted than ‘Subject’
and ‘Title’
–“[I used]
Keyword in Title because that’s what I want the book to be mainly referring to. But I also could’ve went
Keyword in Subject. But if I’d
have went Keyword Anywhere it would have had too big of a field to look through.”
–Web2 OPAC participant looking for resources on gene
therapy
nWhen found, dimensions seem intuitive and useful
n‘Did you mean’ seems intuitive
nStudents don’t necessarily treat the catalog like
Google!