Metalib – dead or alive? Results of the 2013 Metalib User Survey Andrew Brown

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Provide and overview of the Metalib user survey and its results Use the survey to initiate a short debate about Metalib and its future from a customer perspective Aims

By the end of the session I hope that you will; Understand the survey and its results Have a view as a customer on the future of Metalib which will assist your future planning Objectives

Creation of the survey Survey drafted using Survey Monkey and circulated around IGeLU and ELUNA PWGs in Spring 2013 Distributed 15 th May 2013 Deadline for survey extended and closed Friday 21 st June 2013 Exactly one hundred responses Discussed by IGeLU Primo/Metalib Product Working Group (PWG) initially early in 2013

Question 1 Your institution or organization name Not optional Anonymity chosen by some Of value in following up responses

Question 2 (Part 1) As a metalib customer, how do you currently provide access to remote searching? Select more than one answer if required. 57% Metalib ‘Classic’ 22% MetaLib+ 45% Metalib via Primo 18% Another interface

Question 2 (Part 2) Why do you use the interfaces of the above mentioned products? Practicality Usability Flexibility Consolidation

Question 3 (Part 1) Our current plans with MetaLib are %No plans to change 4.5%Moving to MetaLib+ 12.5%MetaLib via Primo 6.8%Moving to Primo without MetaLib 27.3%Other plans

Question 3 (Part 2) What are your reasons for your choice? No plans Stability Economics Happy! Other plans Service Review Retire MetaLib

Question 4 If you are only using the MetaLib 'classic' interface, please go to question 5. What MetaLib features from the 'classic' interface are missing from your current interface? Some issues Never used ‘Classic’ interface No issues 

Question 5 How do you see MetaLib back office being managed in the future? 26.5%Remain as standalone 73.5%Be integrated into Alma at some point

Question 6 What do you see as the future of remote search? Federated search, primo central index or something else? Indexes Hybrid Back seat for Federated Search

Question 7 Finally, do you have any general comments or feedback? Support issues Development of ExLibris federated search Product knowledge Thanks

High noon for Metalib? Is MetaLib coming to the end of its useful life… …or does it have a future?

Alas, poor MetaLib! I knew him… Switched off Cancelled Replaced

Long live MetaLib! New life in new interfaces Aggregated indexes still developing

Thanks and questions Andrew Brown Swansea University Former Swansea University student Alun-Wyn Jones, Wales International rugby