Selden,
To the stats: Does the browsing percent only include links from an
item page? If I search for an author and get a list of authors near
that author, and I go forward and back, does that get counted? Is it
browsing?
I'm thinking it has to include non-item-page browsing if "author" is
listed, since you don't click on a title when you're already on an
item page.
T
On 2/5/08, Selden Deemer <libssd_at_emory.edu> wrote:
> Tim Spalding <tim_at_LIBRARYTHING.COM> writes:
>
> > Has anyone done analytics on click-throughs for recommendations, tags
> > and etc. in the OPAC? I'm no.
>
> Regarding the implied browsing versus searching question,
> Emory University, January 2008:
>
> Search
> Search Total 110,973
> Author 13,951
> General 50,997
> Other 20,011
> Periodical 4,798
> Series 223
> Subject 3,999
> Title 16,994
>
> Browse
> Browse Total 5,263
> Author 702
> Other 7
> Periodical 1,412
> Series 18
> Subject 246
> Title 2,878
>
> Also, for searches, between 20% (keyword) and 50% (series)
> of all searches against our catalog return 0 hits. Subject
> searching has the second lowest success rate after series.
> Our users would probably be better served if we got rid of
> all choices save keyword, author, and title.
>
> I have looked at several of the early Primo sites, and the
> tagging feature is almost completely ignored by users. Iowa
> State, for example, has ONE tag, which was assigned on Sept
> 11, 2007; Vanderbilt's Primo has 8 tags, all but one of which
> were assigned in August or September of 2007.
>
> Selden Deemer, Library Systems Administrator
> Emory University Libraries
> Atlanta, Georgia
> EMAIL: libssd_at_emory.edu
> PHONE: 404-727-0271
> FAX: 404-727-0827
>
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Received on Tue Feb 05 2008 - 13:09:23 EST