Meta Lib Usage Patterns - ELUNA 2007

MetaLib Usage Patterns

John.Little@Duke.eduELUNA 2007

Spearfish, South Dakota

Questsions & Concerns

• Concern about how patrons use MetaLib– Patrons want to find DBs– Patrons don’t like QuickSearch– QuickSearch never turns up the same results

list– Metasearch results are inherently confusing

because there is no context (no indication of which DBs gave which results)

• Which Patrons

Report Data

Log Files

• /exlibris/metalib/m3_1/log/• grep "^S[0-9][0-9] IN" www_server_m_4331.log

• Clean up the logs (Perl)

• Log Analysis Software (Analog is very trainable but not a bleeding edge tool)

• S00 IN 20070529 110617 64.128.101.232 656 "/V?func=native-link&resource=DUK01574"

• S00 IN 20070529 110638 70.16.136.116 958 "/V/YIFHVYSNAV749L1RU2AMXRQD4XYK7QPQVEPNXUNK8IDGG9GST4-33991?func=find-ej-1-title&mode=titles&scan_start=journal of structural chemistry&search_type=exact"

• S00 IN 20070529 110642 70.16.136.116 988 "/V/YIFHVYSNAV749L1RU2AMXRQD4XYK7QPQVEPNXUNK8IDGG9GST4-34059?func=jnl-sfx-direct&jnl_code=JNL016426"

• S00 IN 20070529 110644 152.3.207.175 632 "/V?func=native-link&resource=DUK00693"

• S00 IN 20070529 110646 152.3.238.226 183 "/V?func=quick-1"• S00 IN 20070529 110653 152.3.115.229 618 "/V?func=find-db-1&mode=titles"• S00 IN 20070529 110655 152.3.115.229 905

"/V/EYS3BYUMI1NBUYGKP2DC9S9HGY72LL298F7KMN3GUPAM37J5YN-34129?func=find-db-1-title&mode=titles&scan_start=e?&search_type=exact&restricted=all"

• S00 IN 20070529 110703 152.3.115.229 809 "/V/EYS3BYUMI1NBUYGKP2DC9S9HGY72LL298F7KMN3GUPAM37J5YN-34200?func=native-link&resource=DUK00674"

• S00 IN 20070529 110710 152.3.239.10 797 "/V?func=find-ej-1"

ResultsMetaLib Usage Inside/Ouside Library

35%

65%

Inside

Outside

Results

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06

Feb

-06

Mar

-06

Apr

-06

May

-06

Jun-

06

Jul-0

6

Aug

-06

Sep

-06

Oct

-06

Nov

-06

Dec

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Months

Trend by Month

Inside

Outside

MetaLib Use by Function

64%

17%

16%

2%

1%

0%

quick-1

find-db-1&mode=titles

find-ej-1

meta-1

find-db-1&mode=category

eshelf-2&force_login=y&Institute=DUKE

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ary

Mar

ch

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Janu

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May

quick-1

find-db-1&mode=titlesfind-ej-10.0

10.020.030.040.0

50.060.0

70.0

80.0

90.0

Major Functions - Trend by Month

Answers• Which Patrons• Patrons want to find DBs• Patrons don’t like

QuickSearch• QuickSearch never turns

up the same results list• Metasearch results are

inherently confusing because there is no context (no indication of which DBs gave which results)

• 65% remote• 18% browse DBs• 65% QuickSearch• Different results don’t

matter• Despite changes to

make QuickSearch harder to find, QuickSearch is used more than all other functions combined

John.Little@Duke.edu

ELUNA 2007