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Flying SOLO: Oxford’s implementation of PRIMO (a Reader Services perspective) Angela Carritt User Education Coordinator Bodleian Libraries

Why SOLO?
One stop shop
Google style search box
Greater functionality
Refining searches using clusters / facets
Did you mean...?
Save, Email and Export
Tagging and reviewing
Email alerts / RSS feeds
More Modern interface

SOLO Tour

A shorter OLIS tour

SOLO v OLIS
SOLO
Single search box offering mixed field searching – one box searches all
Limited field searching
Relevance sort by default
Refining using clusters / facets
Attempts to clusters FRBR’ized versions of the same work
Personlised features: export, e-shelf, tagging, review
OLIS
Browse indexes - gold standard?
Wide range of options for field searching plus option to combine fields using boolean operators
Ability to limit searches by date

What do the readers think…
Rebecca S Alexander - Catalogue search interfaces at the University of Oxford: a study of users' attitudes and behaviours (March 2010)
Online survey from SOLO home page - 488 participants
Analyses search data for one week period for OLIS and SOLO
Usability study (March 2011)
Observation of 10 users working through a set of tasks

What do readers like about SOLO?

1. Its easy to use One search box for everything SOLO is forgiving and tolerates inaccurate / incomplete information ...easy subject searching particularly valued

… and subject searching is particularly easy Rebecca’s study found that subject searching was easier on SOLO than OLIS

SOLO is fast

Refining by facets…
In usability testing…
ability to refine results using clusters identified as a key feature of favourite web sites…
7 out of 10 participants used facets during the test

What readers dislike (or what do they find difficult)

1. Availability and patron functions not available in SOLO

FRBR / Versions In usability testing 7 out of 10 readers did not know about the “versions” button until it was demonstrated

Inability to browse authority indexes…???
Rebecca’s study…
found that about 50% of OLIS searches were browse searches …but browse is the default search.
9 of 488 respondents listed browse search as one of the things they like best about OLIS
No one commented on browse searching during the usability testing

What are readers missing…

Export options….

TOCS and Summaries Usability Study – Participants were enthusiastic about TOCS and summaries and used these when starting a new topic and with reading lists. However 5 out of 10 participants did not expect to find TOCS and summaries in the “details” tab.

Tagging and reviewing…?

What are we going to do about it?

14 recommendations…
Force readers to open FRBR’ized sets
Separate “details” and “TOCS/Summaries”
Icons for print, email, export…
Embolden…sort by…new search…refined by…
…

The future for Oxford
Aleph implementation will bring availability & patron functions into SOLO
Consider the role of PrimoCentral
More collections move into SOLO
Improvements to tagging and reviewing...with help from LibraryThing?

Credits
Catalogue search interfaces at the University of Oxford: a study of users' attitudes and behaviours by Rebecca S. Alexander.
Pictures
Canterbury Quad, St John’s College by ManiacMartin ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/maniacmartin/ )
Oxford Earth Sciences Building by Biker Jun ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/biker_jun/ )
Radcliffe Camera, Oxford by Xavier de Jaureguiberry ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/25831000@N08/ )
Clipart from Microsoft

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