Vufind à Yale

Publié le 02 décembre 2008 par Pintini
Sur la liste ngc4lib, on peut trouver les résultats d'une brève enquête menée auprès d'utilisateurs à Yale, où les bibs ont installé un opac dit de "nouvelle génération" (Vufind en l'occurrence) en beta.
[...] 83 surveys were submitted by readers indicating they had used the Yufind search. Of those 83 responses, 79.3% found that results were what they had expected and 75.6% found what they needed. Respondents who tried facets tended to like them (85.0%), and those who didn't like facets commonly complained that results were oddly not related to their search or took too long to load. 57.8% of respondents preferred Yufind to Orbis, but when asked for the first place they would turn for a book search, slightly more respondents would turn to Orbis than to Yufind (40.2% to 35.4%). Some respondents indicated they were frustrated by the broad search in Yufind, which in some cases returned many highly irrelevant results, and by slow response times. Other respondents were unable to use Yufind to locate items they knew to be in the collection, such as the journal Nature. [...]

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