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Hello, We run the catalogs for the State University Libraries of Florida. All eleven have the browse by author and title feature (among other sequential indexes). Here is a snapshot for today's usage (since 4am, combining all eleven universities) from the Apache logs: Browse Author 30 Browse Title 276 Keyword 9437 This is for approximately 7500 unique sessions. That gives you an idea of a daily proportion. More search and patron feature use statistics can be found here: http://fclaweb.fcla.edu/mango (Our catalogs are powered by Mango.) - Josh Joshua Greben Systems Librarian/Analyst Florida Center for Library Automation 5830 NW 39th Ave, Gainesville, FL 32606 [log in to unmask] 352-392-9020 ext 246 On May 3, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Bill Dueber wrote: > I got email from a person today saying, and I quote, > > "I must say that [the lack of a browse interface] come as a shock (*which > interface cannot browse??*)" > > [Emphasis mine] > > Here, a "browse interface" is one where you can get a giant list of all the > titles/authors/subjects whatever -- a view on the data devoid of any > searching. > > Will those of you out there with "browse interfaces" in your system take a > couple minutes to send along a guesstimate of what percentage of patron > sessions involve their use? > > [Note that for right now, I'm excluding "type-ahead" search boxes although > there's an obvious and, in my mind, strong argument to be made that they're > substantially similar for many types of data] > > We don't have a browse interface on our (VuFind) OPAC right now. But in the > interest of paying it forward, I can tell you that in Mirlyn, our OPAC, has > numbers like this: > > Pct of Mirlyn sessions, Feb/March/April 2010, which included at least one > basic > search and also: > > Go to full record view 46% (we put a lot of info in search results) > Select/"favorite" an item 15% > Add a facet: 13% > Export record(s) > to email/refworks/RIS/etc. 3.4% > Send to phone (sms) 0.21% > Click on faq/help/AskUs > in footer 0.17% (324 total) > > Based on 187,784 sessions, 2010.02.01 to 2010.04.31 > > So...anyone out there able to tell me anything about browse interfaces? > > -- > Bill Dueber > Library Systems Programmer > University of Michigan Library >