3. Colleges
Respondents were asked: “What is your college?”
Science Business
15% Administration
School of 15%
Nursing
8% Education
5%
Engineering
21%
Liberal Arts
Health
32%
Sciences
4%
5. Usage Trends
Users were asked: “How often do you use the library catalog per semester?”
Never
10 or more 11%
uses per
semester
20%
5-10 uses per
semester
1-5 uses per
18%
semester
51%
6. User Comfort Levels
Users were asked: “What is your level of comfort with the Library Catalog? Would you say that you
are a...”
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Beginner Intermediate User Advanced User Power User
8. Considering the exercises you just
completed, which search tool did you prefer
using?
Nugget
39%
Encore
61%
9. Rankings: based on subjective user
perceptions
Efficiency
Accuracy of Search Results
Features Encore
Nugget
Layout & Appearance
Ease of Use
1 2 3 4 5
10. Selected User Comments
“The whole layout of Encore “If Nugget's „Search by Category‟ panel
is a lot easier and much were added to Encore's layout, I would
simpler.” prefer to use Encore.”
“I thought Encore
“I will probably use Nugget because
“Both were was the best
that is what I got used to using most
pretty easy to search engine and
of the time, but Encore is nice and I
use.” faster than
liked its layout.”
Nugget”
“I like how encore further
“Encore was faster because it had the
segments your search to the left.
options viewable and in Nugget I had to
Similar to search engines on
use time to search them.”
Ebay and amazon.com.”
“There are “Nugget is more
“Now that I've used Encore, I think I
some prepared to give
find it slightly easier to use and sort
accessibility me what I
with the options given vs. the options need/want in my
related issues
that are provided for Nugget.” research.”
with Encore.”
