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Perceptions 2009: An International Survey of Library Automation
I have posted the results the third annual survey of data collected on how libraries rate their current integrated library system, the company involved, and the quality of customer support. The survey also aims to gather data regarding attitudes regarding interest levels in open source ILS products. Perceptions 2009: an international survey of library automation gives the general conclusions and presents all the statistical results derived from the survey. As usual, some of the most interesting and valuable information lies in the comments offered by responders.
Top survey findings
- Products and companies focusing on smaller libraries and narrower niches generally receive higher perception scores than those involved with larger, more complex organizations that and that serve multiple types of libraries.
- Apollo, a system adopted exclusively by small public libraries topped the charts in ILS, company, support perceived satisfaction and in company loyalty, following the formula for success mentioned above. Most libraries adopting Apollo have migrated from abandoned products such as Winnebago Spectrum and Athena.
- Libraries operating AGent Verso from Auto-Graphics and Polaris from Polaris Library Systems continue to receive extremely high scores, consistent with previous editions of this survey.
- Companies and products serving large and complex library organizations and diverse library types receive a broader range of responses, and fall into a middle tier of rankings. Yet where they fall within this middle ground represents important differences. Millennium from Innovative Interfaces, Library.Solution from The Library Corporation, and Evergreen as supported by Equinox Software came out as very strong performers at the top of this middle tier.
- Companies supporting proprietary ILS products receive generally higher satisfaction scores than companies involved with open source ILS. Evergreen, primarily supported by Equinox Software fell into the middle tier of satisfaction ratings. LibLime received especially poor marks in customer satisfaction; libraries implementing Koha independently gave themselves high ratings.
- Except for the libraries already using an open source ILS, the survey reflected low levels of interest, even when the company rates their satisfaction with their current proprietary ILS and its company as poor. Other than libraries already running an open source ILS, and for Winnebago Spectrum and Athena, the mode score from libraries using proprietary ILS products was 0. These results fail to confirm the trend of broad-based interest in open source ILS; rather we observe a minority of early adopters voicing strong support.
Here is a sample table from the report:
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is the library with your current Integrated Library System (ILS)?
| Satisfaction Score for ILS | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Apollo | 34 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 8.35 | 9 | 1.37 | |||||||
| AGent VERSO | 71 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 27 | 21 | 8 | 7.83 | 8 | 0.95 | ||||
| Polaris | 92 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 52 | 21 | 8 | 7.79 | 8 | 0.83 | ||
| Koha -- Independent | 26 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 7.77 | 8 | 1.57 | ||||||
| OPALS | 41 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 18 | 9 | 7.66 | 8 | 1.41 | |||
| Atriuum | 55 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 19 | 9 | 7.53 | 8 | 0.13 | |||
| Millennium | 343 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 31 | 32 | 109 | 102 | 51 | 7 | 7.13 | 7 | 0.43 | ||
| Library.Solution | 110 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 45 | 26 | 19 | 7 | 7.06 | 7 | 0.67 | |
| Evergreen | 49 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6.76 | 7 | 1.00 | ||||
| Circulation Plus | 38 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 6.39 | 7 | 1.30 |
| Spydus | 22 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 6.36 | 7 | 1.28 | ||
| ALEPH 500 | 133 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 27 | 37 | 31 | 4 | 7 | 6.29 | 7 | 0.61 |
| Virtua | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 6.29 | 7 | 1.31 | |||
| Koha -- LibLime | 49 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 6.12 | 7 | 1.00 | ||
| Symphony (Unicorn) | 304 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 62 | 56 | 97 | 44 | 7 | 7 | 6.07 | 6 | 0.46 |
| Horizon | 192 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 24 | 25 | 69 | 32 | 7 | 7 | 6.06 | 7 | 0.51 |
| Voyager | 164 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 31 | 39 | 41 | 22 | 4 | 7 | 5.91 | 6 | 0.23 | ||
| Athena | 22 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5.73 | 6 | 0.64 | |
| Winnebago Spectrum | 33 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4.91 | 5 | 1.22 |
Just as I did for the previous editions survey, I created an interactive tool for viewing the statistical summaries and comments. The main tables in the article show statistics only for those products that had more than 20 survey responses. You can use the ILS Product Report to view the statistics on any of the products mentioned in the survey and to read the comments about that system, even if the number of responses did not meet the threshold. The comments that display have been edited to remove any text that identifies the individual or institution, preserving the anonymity of the responders. The narrative data in the comments largely corroborate the statistical responses and makes for interesting reading.
Marshall Breeding Jan 22, 2010 12:00:16 Link to this thread
