This tenth edition of the International Survey of Library Automation aims to provide a candid glimpse into the effectiveness of strategic library technology systems from the perspective of the libraries which use them for their daily operations and to fulfill the expectations of their patrons. It focuses primarily on integrated library systems and library services platforms as the applications libraries use to acquire, describe, manage, and provide access to their collections.
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4042 libraries completed this year’s survey, providing sufficient data to focus the analysis more on each category of library type and size rather than aggregating across all responses. The functional requirements of public, academic, school, and other types of libraries overlap to a certain extent, but in other areas have distinctive if not contradictory functionality. Some of the products represented in the survey have been designed for specific sectors. For those used by multiple types of libraries, the analysis of the survey results by size and type of organization provides an opportunity to observe any differences in satisfaction across these categories.
Some interesting themes can be seen in the analysis of this year’s survey results. Libraries which have implemented new library services platforms such as WorldShare Management Services and Alma are putting them through their paces and report both success and frustrations. Well-established integrated library systems serve very large number of libraries, mostly with strong acceptance. An increasing number of libraries using legacy products have either moved to new systems or indicate readiness to do so. Products such as Aleph, Voyager, and Millennium increasingly are perceived as not fulfilling libraries expectations in managing both electronic and print resources. Open source products achieve satisfaction levels similar to proprietary products. Results indicate a tendency for libraries at least consider products offered by their incumbent vendor. Smaller libraries show much more delight with their products and vendors. Large libraries judge on a much more severe scale. These differing levels of expectations make it vital to segment results in a way that presents more meaningful comparisons.
I sincerely appreciate the time given by all the libraries that responded to the survey this year and in its previous iterations. Each response contributes to a growing body of data available for the broader library community to explore as they consider their options regarding these strategic technology products. Libraries have always relied on recommendations from their peers as they make system decisions. This survey provides a massive aggregation of that kind of data that can complement more in-depth conversations that libraries considering a system would have with specific reference sites.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The 2017 Library Automation Perceptions Report provides evaluative ratings submitted by individuals representing 4042 libraries from 92 countries describing experiences with 138 different automation products, including both proprietary and open source systems. The survey results include 1,062 narrative comments providing candid statements -- both positive and negative – about the products and companies involved or statements of intent regarding future automation plans. This report analyzes the results of the survey, presents a variety of statistical tables based on the data collected, and provides some initial observations. It aims to provide information to libraries as they evaluate their options for strategic technology products and to the organizations involved in providing these products and services as constructive criticism to help guide improvements.
| Selected Survey Findings: Top Performers |
|---|
| Alma from Ex Libris led as the top performer among large and mid-sized academic libraries for overall functionality, effectiveness in managing electronic resources, and company loyalty and for mid-sized accademics for overall functionality, effectiveness in managing electronic resources, company loyalty. |
| WorldShare from OCLC led in general satisfaction for mid-sized academics and for electronic resource management for small academics. |
| Polaris received top rankings among large public libraries for general satisfaction, overall functionality, print resource management, and electronic resource management. |
| Apollo from Biblionix was the top performer among very small public libraries all categories and among small publics for all categories except for company loyalty. |
| Symphony from SirsiDynix received top scores among large public libraries for customer support and for company loyalty and in customer support for mid-sized academics. |
| OPALS received highest scores in all categories among school libraries. |
| Library.Solution earned highest ratings for mid-sized public libraries for general satisfaction and overall ILS functionality. |
| ByWater Solutions, providing services for Koha, earned highest scores from mid-sized public libraries for its in management of electronic resources and satisfaction with customer support and fromsmall public libraries for company loyalty. |
Previous editions: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007.
Libraries make major investments in strategic automation products, both during the initial implementation period and in annual fees paid for support, software maintenance, and other services. They depend on these products for efficient management of their daily operations and to provide access to their collections and services. This survey report allows libraries to benefit from the perceptions of their peers regarding the quality of automation systems and of the performance of the organizations involved in their development or support.
Libraries in immediate need of replacing their current system, or in the process of making longer term technology strategies, benefit from data across a variety of sources as they assess options. Technical documentation, marketing materials, product demonstrations, product vision statements and functionality checklists represent some sources of information to help libraries evaluate automation products. The vendor community naturally provides information and materials that presents their products in positive terms.
Another important avenue of investigation involves data from libraries with first-hand experience of the products and vendors. This survey aims to measure the perceptions libraries hold regarding their current automation products, the companies that support them and to capture their intentions about future migration options. It also explores interest in open source library automation systems, a key issue for the industry. Though its large number of responses, the survey aggregates the subjective experience of many libraries to create meaningful results, reasonably informative about the collective experience of libraries with this set of products and companies.
The survey allows only one response per library and only one response per individual. This approach ensures that no one library or individual can disproportionately impact survey results. The survey checks for existing responses from each e-mail address or library record number in libraries.org as part of its validation routine.
Confidentiality and Anonymity
The survey preserves the anonymity of the individuals responding as well as the institutions with which they are associated. Although response records contain data identifying the institution and the responders, extensive measures are taken to protect these data. Only the administrator of the survey has access to the raw survey response records. The tables of statistical summaries, interactive reports, and narrative reports are designed never to reveal identities of individuals or institutions. The survey publishes any narrative comments given in the responses. While preserving the original response comments, a duplicate of the comments are made in the survey records, with any identifying wording redacted. Names or institutions are replaced with a symbol indicating redaction: […].
Caveats
Any interpretation of the statistics must be seen in the context that larger and more complex libraries do not rate their automation systems as favorably as small libraries.
Libraries may refer to the results of this survey as they formulate technology strategies or evaluate specific products. Although the impressions of libraries using a given product inform one area of investigation, libraries should be careful not to overemphasize the statistics or narrative comments in a procurement process. While it reflects the responses of a large number of libraries using these products, the survey should be taken more as an instrument to guide what questions that a library might bring up in their considerations than to drive any conclusions. Especially for libraries with more complex needs, it's unrealistic to expect satisfaction scores at the very top of the rankings. Large and complex libraries exercise all aspects of an automation system and at any given time may have outstanding issues that would result in survey responses short of the highest marks. While a given product may earn positive responses from one sector, it may not be a good choice for libraries with different requirements.
Constructive criticism
The survey results also aims to provide useful information to the companies involved in the library automation industry. While many companies perform their own measures of client satisfaction, this survey may show perceptions quite different from internal customer surveys. The rankings in each category and the published comments can represent provide useful data to assist each of the companies hone in on problem areas and make any needed adjustments to their support procedures or product directions.
Survey Response Demographics
| Collection Size Categories | ||
|---|---|---|
| count | More | Less |
| 462 | 0 | 10,000 |
| 1,308 | 10,001 | 50,000 |
| 484 | 50,001 | 100,000 |
| 560 | 100,001 | 250,000 |
| 385 | 250,001 | 500,000 |
| 280 | 500,001 | 1,000,000 |
| 372 | 1,000,001 | 10,000,000 |
| 23 | 10,000,001 | |
| 168 | No collection size data | |
| 4,042 | Total of Categories | |
This year, the survey attracted 4,042 responses from libraries in 92 different countries. The countries most strongly represented include the United States (3,026 responses), followed by Canada (232), Australia (141), United Kingdom (112), Spain (48), Sweden (41), and New Zealand (34). As with the general demographics of the libraries.org database, the respondents of the library primarily come from libraries in English-speaking countries.
While the vast majority of responses continue to come from libraries in the United States, the survey aims to address the international library automation arena. This year the survey form was offered in English, Spanish (translated by Nieves González), French (translated by Alexandre Lemaire), German (translated by Susanne Schuster), Italian (translated by Andrea Marchitelli), Finnish (translated by Petri Tonteri ). Responses received from Spanish-speaking countries, included Spain (48), Argentina (14), Chile (7), Colombia (14), Mexico (7), Venezuela (3), Uruguay (6), and Ecuador (4). A total of 1,206 of the 4,042 total responses (29.8 percent) came from libraries outside the United States.
The survey received 4,042 responses: ( 2015=3,453; 2014=3,141; 2013=3,002; 2012=3,030; 2011=2,432; 2010=2,173; 2009=2,099; 2008=1,453; 2007=1,779 ). Across all its editions of the survey, the cumulative data collected totals 26,604 responses. The survey was open between November 3, 2016 and January 18, 2016.
There were 168 of the 4,042 responses with no collection size data provided. These libraries were not able to be included in the parts of the analysis where libraries are segmented by size categories.
Public libraries were represented in largest numbers, with 1,547 responses, followed by academic libraries with 1,156. This year 789 responses came from school libraries.
The Survey Demographics Report summarizes the library types, countries, and products represented in the survey results:
General Information about the Survey
| product | count | report |
|---|---|---|
| Destiny | 621 | ils report |
| Symphony | 436 | ils report |
| Sierra | 432 | ils report |
| OPALS | 220 | ils report |
| Polaris | 219 | ils report |
| Alma | 161 | ils report |
| Millennium | 144 | ils report |
| WorldShare Management Services | 134 | ils report |
| ALEPH 500 | 130 | ils report |
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 125 | ils report |
| Voyager | 117 | ils report |
| Apollo | 106 | ils report |
| Atriuum | 102 | ils report |
| Horizon | 98 | ils report |
| Library.Solution | 97 | ils report |
| VERSO | 90 | ils report |
| Koha -- Independent | 77 | ils report |
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 73 | ils report |
| Spydus | 45 | ils report |
| Evergreen -- Independent | 33 | ils report |
| EOS.Web | 32 | ils report |
| Koha -- LibLime | 31 | ils report |
| None | 28 | ils report |
| Unknown | 27 | ils report |
| LibraryWorld | 26 | ils report |
| Virtua | 21 | ils report |
| Alexandria | 20 | ils report |
The survey attracted responses from libraries using 138 different ILS products. Those represented by more than 20 are shown in the accompanying table, with links that generate a report providing the survey results for that product for each year the survey has been offered. Many other products were represented in the survey with few number of responses. Systems with less than 10 did not appear in the main statistical tables. These responses can be seen through the individual ILS Product Reports.
This report is an original publication of Library Technology Guides and is not slated to appear in any print publication. Please direct any comments or enquiries to the author.
This survey and its analysis reflect my ongoing interest in following trends in the library automation industry. It is designed to complement the annual Library Systems Report feature that I have written between 2002 and 2012 for Library Journal and since 2013 for American Libraries. The survey underlying the Library Systems Report article relies on information provided by the companies that offer library automation products and services. The survey that serves as the basis for this article collects data from the libraries themselves.
Survey Results
Migration Patterns and Trends
The survey provides the opportunity for libraries to indicate interest in migrating to a new system and what candidate systems are under consideration. The percentages shown reflect the number of responses where the library indicated that it is shopping for a new system relative to the total number of responses for that product. This table summarizes responses where the library indicates it is shopping for a new system.
| Percent of Libraries Considering Moving to new ILS | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current ILS | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
| ALEPH 500 | 9.1% | 13.6% | 11.9% | 18.9% | 25.7% | 34.6% | 40.4% | 45.7% | 55.3% | 64.6% |
| Apollo | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.5% | 0.9% |
| Horizon | 49.3% | 61.5% | 45.2% | 57.3% | 54.7% | 49.7% | 45.4% | 42.2% | 34.9% | 28.6% |
| Library.Solution | 12.1% | 3.3% | 8.7% | 14.3% | 14.4% | 13.6% | 12.9% | 10.8% | 18.3% | 12.4% |
| Millennium | 6.4% | 8.6% | 11.7% | 18.7% | 31.2% | 42.4% | 45.3% | 56.9% | 65.5% | 75.0% |
| Polaris | 1.6% | 9.4% | 6.5% | 5.8% | 1.9% | 1.2% | 0.7% | 5.3% | 7.9% | 7.3% |
| Sierra | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3.2% | 5.8% | 10.8% | 12.9% | 13.4% |
| Symphony | 14.9% | 23.1% | 15.8% | 20.2% | 22.5% | 20.4% | 20.4% | 20.8% | 18.0% | 18.6% |
| Voyager | 21.6% | 21.8% | 19.5% | 32.3% | 38.3% | 49.4% | 50.9% | 67.5% | 69.2% | 66.7% |
Note: The percentage of libraries indicating they are considering migration increased for Millennium, Aleph, and Voyager when those companies began promoting their next-generation products.
In order to identify potential patterns of future system migrations, the survey asks for the names of the products that the library is considering. In most cases, the responses included multiple products under consideration. The candidate systems mentioned may indicate serious evaluation or mere name recognition. Tabulating the names of the products listed shows strong interest in Alma (197), WorldShare Management Services (114), Sierra (98), Koha (88), Symphony (62), and FOLIO (41). When asked about open source interest regardless of active plans to change systems, 273 mentioned Koha, 87 mentioned FOLIO, 84 mentioned Evergreen, and 4 mentioned Invenio.
The following table summarizes data provided on survey responses relating to whether the library is planning to migrate to a new system in the near future and candidate systems under consideration.
| Current ILS | Responses | Shopping | Percent | Academic | Alma | WorldShare | Polaris | Sierra | Symphony | FOLIO | Koha | Evergreen | Kuali |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALEPH 500 | 130 | 84 | 64.6 | 68 | 48 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| Horizon | 98 | 28 | 28.6 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Library.Solution | 97 | 12 | 12.4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Millennium | 144 | 108 | 75.0 | 82 | 37 | 25 | 3 | 42 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| Sierra | 432 | 58 | 13.4 | 36 | 23 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| Polaris | 219 | 16 | 7.3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Symphony | 436 | 81 | 18.6 | 44 | 21 | 20 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| Voyager | 117 | 78 | 66.7 | 63 | 41 | 17 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 0 |
| Amlib | 14 | 8 | 57.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Any Product | 197 | 114 | 27 | 98 | 62 | 41 | 88 | 23 | 2 |
Note: These figures represent the number of times each product was mentioned among the candidates listed. The matrix lists only selected current ILS products and candidate systems under consideration. The sum of values given at the bottom of each column represents the total number of times the product was mentioned as a replacement candidate, including for products not among those selected for the table. The highlighted values indicate where the candidate system mentioned is provided by the same company as the incumbent.
International Perspective
The survey aims for a broad international perspective. Responses were received from the international clients of the systems commonly used in the United States as well as those that may be used primarily within other geographic regions or countries. A total of 1,016 responses were received from libraries located outside of the United States. Many of the products more familiar outside of the United States did not receive an adequate number of responses to appear in the main statistical tables.
| product | Total responses | United States | International |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Products | 4,042 | 3,026 | 1,016 |
| Symphony | 436 | 300 | 136 |
| Horizon | 99 | 69 | 30 |
| Sierra | 443 | 345 | 98 |
| Millennium | 144 | 106 | 38 |
| Polaris | 219 | 198 | 21 |
| Aleph | 130 | 57 | 73 |
| Voyager | 117 | 91 | 26 |
| Alma | 161 | 96 | 65 |
| Axiell Aurora | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| WorldShare Management Services | 134 | 116 | 18 |
| Absys.Net | 18 | 0 | 18 |
Selected Companies and Products
Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
Innovative Interfaces develops and supports a variety of technology products for libraries, including Sierra, Polaris, and Virtua. Its Millennium ILS, the predecessor to Sierra continues to be widely used. The company is active in almost all global regions. Libraries of all types and sizes have implemented the products of Innovative (view company profile). The company was well represented in this year’s survey results with 430 from libraries using Sierra, 216 using Polaris, 144 using Millennium, and 21 using Virtua, or 811 in total. Innovative saw a change of ownership in Mar 2012 and subsequently acquired Polaris (Mar 2014) and VTLS (Jun 2014).
Sierra
Sierra (full statistical report and narrative comments) has been implemented by many types of libraries throughout many international regions. This year responses were completed by 430 libraries, including 193 academic libraries, 169 publics, 28 consortia and 5 special libraries. Although loyalty scores were weak overall (5.52), large publics (4.58) showed the least commitment to acquiring their next system from this company. When considering ratings given over time, ILS Support has declined from 7.96 in 2012 to 5.17 last year, but increased to 5.26 this year. General satisfaction increased slightly over last year up to 6.23 from 6.18. 58 out of the 433 responses (13.4%) indicated interest in moving from Sierra to a new system.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Sierra | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 430 | 6.23 | 72 | 6.63 | 75 | 6.04 | 43 | 6.33 | 90 | 6.29 | 62 | 5.84 | 12 | 5.42 | 3 | 28 | 6.39 | |
| ILSFunctionality | 428 | 6.43 | 71 | 6.73 | 74 | 6.26 | 43 | 6.16 | 90 | 6.54 | 62 | 6.32 | 12 | 6.00 | 3 | 28 | 6.43 | |
| PrintFunctionality | 427 | 7.16 | 71 | 7.55 | 75 | 7.27 | 43 | 7.56 | 88 | 6.83 | 62 | 6.79 | 12 | 7.08 | 3 | 28 | 7.14 | |
| ElectronicFunctionality | 424 | 5.29 | 69 | 5.46 | 75 | 5.15 | 43 | 5.60 | 89 | 5.06 | 62 | 5.08 | 11 | 5.82 | 3 | 27 | 5.04 | |
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 426 | 5.26 | 71 | 6.03 | 75 | 5.03 | 43 | 5.63 | 89 | 5.51 | 60 | 4.63 | 12 | 3.50 | 3 | 28 | 4.79 | |
| CompanyLoyalty | 424 | 5.52 | 71 | 5.94 | 73 | 5.04 | 43 | 5.30 | 89 | 5.66 | 60 | 5.27 | 12 | 4.58 | 3 | 28 | 6.04 | |
Millennium
A decreasing number of libraries continue to use Millennium (full product report and narrative comments) with many shifting to Sierra and other products (see selection/deselection report). Of the libraries that continue to use Millennium, the proportion of academics are higher than publics compared to Sierra (see graph of Millennium sites by type). The numbers of responses from libraries using Millennium have declined since 2011 when 458 responded, consistent with the gradual migration from this legacy product. Out of the 144 libraries which responded this year, 107 indicated interest in moving to a new system. The percentages of libraries indicating interest in moving to a new system has increased from 6.4% in 2007 before the announcement of Sierra, to 56.9% in 2015, to 74.3% this year. Migration options mentioned included Sierra (42), followed by Alma (37), WorldShare Management Services (25), Koha (11), Symphony (9), and FOLIO (6). While Innovative has seen positive results in positioning Sierra as the migration path for Millennium, many are also considering competing products.
The number of public libraries using Millennium has declined such the responses recieved in this category to were below the threshold be included in the statistical tables.
Response data from previous years for Millennium shows steady to rising ratings from 2007 through 2010, with decreasing responses subsequently. (General satisfaction: 2007: 7.17, 2008: 7.08, 2009: 7.13, 2010: 7.11, 2011: 6.88, 2012: 6.68, 2013: 6.44, 2014: 6.12, 2015: 5.77, 2016: 5.14).
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Millennium | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 144 | 5.14 | 40 | 5.28 | 42 | 4.95 | 21 | 4.33 | 9 | 4.33 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||
| ILSFunctionality | 144 | 5.31 | 40 | 5.78 | 42 | 5.21 | 21 | 3.76 | 9 | 4.89 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||
| PrintFunctionality | 144 | 6.90 | 40 | 6.97 | 42 | 6.83 | 21 | 6.90 | 9 | 5.78 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 143 | 4.16 | 39 | 4.67 | 42 | 4.17 | 21 | 2.52 | 9 | 4.44 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 143 | 4.59 | 40 | 4.72 | 41 | 4.20 | 21 | 3.38 | 9 | 4.44 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 142 | 4.66 | 40 | 4.15 | 41 | 4.71 | 21 | 4.19 | 9 | 5.22 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||||
Polaris
Polaris (full product report and narrative comments) has been implemented primarily by public libraries) within the United States and Canada, with 216 libraries responding to this year’s survey. Polaris continues to be well appreciated by large public libraries, earning top rankings in for general satisfaction (7.76), overall functionality (7.40), print resource management (7.68). Although Polaris led in scores for electronic resource management (6.08) relative to competing products, the overall level of scores in this category of electronic resource management was substantially lower than others.
From 2007 through 2012 Polaris consistently was rated as one of the top performing systems, though in 2008 libraries gave somewhat lower ratings. From 2012 through 2015, ratings for Polaris have declined in all categories. This year ratings in each category saw noticable improvement.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Polaris | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 216 | 7.35 | 14 | 7.21 | 2 | 0 | 120 | 7.35 | 42 | 7.52 | 12 | 8.00 | 4 | 15 | 7.60 | |||
| ILSFunctionality | 218 | 7.25 | 15 | 6.80 | 2 | 0 | 121 | 7.37 | 42 | 7.40 | 12 | 7.50 | 4 | 15 | 7.47 | |||
| PrintFunctionality | 213 | 7.72 | 14 | 7.79 | 2 | 0 | 118 | 7.77 | 41 | 7.78 | 12 | 7.58 | 4 | 15 | 8.00 | |||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 212 | 6.30 | 15 | 4.93 | 2 | 0 | 116 | 6.52 | 41 | 6.51 | 12 | 5.67 | 4 | 15 | 6.60 | |||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 212 | 6.96 | 15 | 6.73 | 2 | 0 | 116 | 6.86 | 42 | 7.31 | 12 | 7.75 | 3 | 15 | 7.00 | |||
| CompanyLoyalty | 213 | 6.75 | 13 | 7.31 | 2 | 0 | 118 | 6.69 | 42 | 7.14 | 12 | 7.00 | 4 | 15 | 6.80 | |||
Virtua
This year 21 libraries using Virtua (full product report and narrative comments) responded to the survey. About half (10 out of 21) of these libraries indicated interest in migrating to a new system. Though the number of responses was too low for confident results, the ratings for general satisfaction, and company satisfaction were up from last year, though still significantly down from those seen in 2013 when satisfaction in all categories was at its peak. This year company loyalty dramatically increased (6.00) from the last year's rating (4.57) indicating stronger interest in moving to another ILS product from Innovative.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Virtua | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 21 | 6.33 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6.88 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| ILSFunctionality | 21 | 6.57 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6.75 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| PrintFunctionality | 21 | 7.52 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7.88 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 21 | 4.48 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3.88 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 20 | 6.25 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6.25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 21 | 6.00 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6.75 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
Ex Libris
Ex Libris (view company profile) specializes in technologies for academic, research, and national libraries, offering a wide range of products and services, including its current Alma library services platform, as well as Aleph and Voyager integrated library systems. This year 161 libraries using Alma, 130 using Aleph, and 117 using Voyager responded to the survey, for a total of 408 overall. Its products have been implemented by libraries in all geographic regions. Ex Libris was acquired by ProQuest in December 2015.
The libraries which have implemented Ex Libris products tend to be large and complex, and tend not to give superlative ratings as seen in products that serve larger libraries. The perceptions of customer support from Ex Libris are moderate this year.
Alma
Alma (full product report and narrative comments), designed for academic, research, and national libraries (graph of Alma implementations by type) earned top rankings among large academic libraries for for general ILS satisfaction (6.69), overall ILS functionality (6.73), effectiveness of managing electronic resources (6.76), and company loyalty (7.24). These libraries rated the print functionality (6.93) below that of Aleph (7.67), Symphony (7.64), Sierra (7.56) and Voyager (7.19). This lower rating for print functionality did not deter libraries from giving Alma the higest rating for overall functionality, reflecing the higher priority in managing electronic resources. Mid-sized academics rated Alma highest in the category of Overall ILS functionality (6.90), effectiveness in managing electronic resources (7.04), company loyalty (7.10).
Alma was not rated as positively among small academic libraries. Its ragings were in the lower third of the pack, except in the category relating to the management of electronic resources, where it placed second (6.48), just below WorldShare Management Services (6.58).
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Alma | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 157 | 6.53 | 30 | 6.37 | 54 | 6.59 | 45 | 6.69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
| ILSFunctionality | 157 | 6.70 | 30 | 6.53 | 54 | 6.87 | 45 | 6.73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
| PrintFunctionality | 157 | 6.85 | 30 | 6.90 | 54 | 6.87 | 45 | 6.93 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 153 | 6.80 | 29 | 6.48 | 53 | 6.98 | 45 | 6.76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 156 | 6.27 | 30 | 6.03 | 53 | 6.45 | 45 | 6.49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 155 | 6.88 | 28 | 6.29 | 54 | 7.04 | 45 | 7.24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
Voyager
Voyager, (full product report and narrative comments), acquired by Ex Libris from Elsevier in Nov 2006, and developed specifically for academic libraries, (graph of Voyager implementations by type) though during a time when their collections included mostly print materials. Its legacy in print can be seen in its ratings were its functionality for print received its highest scores (6.81) and functionality for electronic resources received the lowest (3.58). Large academics gave Voyager low ratings in most categories except for company loyalty (6.92), where it placed just below Alma (7.24); mid-sized academics (6.00) and small academics (6.27) indicated weaker company loyalty. Most libraries currently using Voyager indicate interest in migrating to a new system (68.3%). Of those considering migrating, more mentioned Alma among the candidate replacements (41). Others mentioned included WorldShare Management Services (17), Sierra (14), FOLIO (9), and Koha (9).
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Voyager | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 117 | 5.58 | 33 | 5.55 | 30 | 4.73 | 26 | 6.08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
| ILSFunctionality | 116 | 5.47 | 33 | 5.64 | 29 | 4.79 | 26 | 5.38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
| PrintFunctionality | 117 | 6.81 | 33 | 6.36 | 30 | 6.43 | 26 | 7.19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 115 | 3.58 | 32 | 3.47 | 30 | 3.07 | 26 | 3.77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 112 | 6.03 | 30 | 5.83 | 29 | 5.34 | 26 | 6.62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 116 | 6.38 | 33 | 6.27 | 29 | 6.07 | 26 | 6.92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||
Aleph
Aleph (full product report and narrative comments), an established ILS product created by Ex Libris primarily for academic libraries (graph of Aleph implementations by type) continues to be used in many libraries, though the numbers are diminishing, (see selection/deselection report) driven by Aleph’s orientation to print materials and the increasing dominance of electronic resources in academic libraries.
Large academic libraries using Aleph gave Ex Libris top ratings in the categories of customer support (7.13) and print functionality (7.67). Ratings in all categories improved slightly since last year.
64.4 percent of libraries using Aleph indicate interest in moving to a new system. Large academic libraries using Aleph gave moderately positive ratings for company loyalty (6.77). Migration candidates mentioned included Alma (48), WorldShare Management Services (16), FOLIO (12), and Sierra (6). All these statistics can be seen as relatively good news to Ex Libris regarding whether Aleph libraries will stay within the fold and eventually move to Alma.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| ALEPH 500 | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 129 | 5.95 | 28 | 5.32 | 35 | 6.00 | 30 | 6.43 | 7 | 6.57 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| ILSFunctionality | 129 | 5.85 | 28 | 5.21 | 35 | 5.86 | 30 | 6.07 | 7 | 6.86 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| PrintFunctionality | 128 | 6.96 | 28 | 6.32 | 34 | 7.32 | 30 | 7.67 | 7 | 6.71 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 126 | 3.71 | 27 | 3.37 | 35 | 3.77 | 30 | 3.57 | 7 | 3.86 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 127 | 6.20 | 26 | 5.00 | 35 | 6.11 | 30 | 7.13 | 7 | 7.57 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 127 | 6.44 | 27 | 6.70 | 34 | 6.68 | 30 | 6.77 | 7 | 6.57 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
OCLC
OCLC, a non-profit membership organization (view company profile), offers many different products and services to libraries. Relevant to this report, OCLC has developed WorldShare Management Services and WorldCat discovery service. The organization also supports multiple legacy ILS products, including Amlib. This year 133 libraries using WorldShare Management Services responded to the survey as well as 14 using Amlib.
WorldShare Management Services
A total of 133 libraries using WorldShare Management Services (full product report and narrative comments), from OCLC responded to this year’s survey. This product has been implemented primarily in academic libraries; (graph of WorldShare Management Services implementations by type) all responses to this year’s survey for WMS were from academic libraries, except for 3 public libraries, 1 school, and 1 consortium.
Mid-sized academics gave Worldshare Management Services top ratings in general satisfaction (6.76); small academics gave it highest ratings for electronic resource management for (6.58). These libraries gave almost identical rankings to WorldShare (7.10) and Alma (7.09) for company loyalty. When segmented by collection size, mid-sized academics gave higher ratings (6.83) than small (6.78) or large (6.29) academic libraries. WorldShare Management System did not receive enough responses to appear in the large academic category statistics tables.
From 2012 through 2015 ratings gradually increased, except for a minor dip in support and loyalty. Relative to last year, 2016 rankings were slightly down.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| WorldShare Management Services | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 133 | 6.70 | 51 | 6.78 | 41 | 6.83 | 7 | 6.29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| ILSFunctionality | 133 | 6.55 | 50 | 6.78 | 42 | 6.45 | 7 | 6.14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| PrintFunctionality | 134 | 7.25 | 51 | 7.35 | 42 | 7.21 | 7 | 6.71 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 132 | 6.43 | 50 | 6.58 | 42 | 6.55 | 7 | 6.00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 133 | 6.99 | 51 | 7.24 | 42 | 6.93 | 7 | 7.29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 132 | 6.91 | 51 | 7.12 | 42 | 7.07 | 7 | 6.71 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Amlib
This year’s survey included 14 responses from libraries using Amlib (full product report and narrative comments), an integrated library system also supported by OCLC. Its ratings appeared on only a small number of statistics tables since the number of responses fall below the threshold. The product did appear in the tables that aggregated all responses for public libraries. Consistent with its status as a legacy system, supported but without forward development, ratings have been steadily declining since 2009.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Amlib | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 14 | 4.79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4.69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| ILSFunctionality | 13 | 4.54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4.54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| PrintFunctionality | 12 | 5.17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5.17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 13 | 2.54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2.54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 14 | 5.21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 5.15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 14 | 3.21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
SirsiDynix
SirsiDynix (view company profile), provides its Symphony, Horizon, and EOS.Web integrated library systems and is developing a set of web-based complementary products delivered through its new BLUEcloud platform. The company saw a new ownership arrangement in December 2014 through its acquisition by ICV Partners from Vista Equity Partners.
This year 431 libraries using Symphony responded to the survey (2016: 436, 2015: 436, 2014: 354, 2013: 315, 2012: 380, 2011: 326, 2010: 271, 2009: 304, 2008: 233, 2007: 284). Another 98 libraries using Horizon and 32 using EOS.Web completed responses.
Following the acquisition of SirsiDynix by Vista Equity Partners in 2006, ratings for both Symphony and Horizon dropped for all categories in 2008, but have improved every year since. Looking at this trend demonstrates that while there may be negative fallout following a business event, that a company can work to improve its perceptions over time. The ownership of SirsiDynix changed again in December 2014 with its acquisition by ICV Partners. This first year since that transition saw continued movement upward in perceptions scores for Symphony, even more dramatic improvement for Horizon, but a drop in perceptions ratings for EOS.Web.
Symphony
SirsiDynix Symphony (full product report and narrative comments), finds use all types and sizes of libraries and in many throughout international regions.
Mid-sized academics rated Symphony highest in satiation for customer support (7.05). large public libraries gave Symphony top scores for customer support (7.52) and for company loyalty (7.34). Sympony receives its strongest ratings for satisfaction with print functionality (consortia: 8.17; large academic: 7.64; large public: 6.47; mid-sized public 7.62). Weakest scores were given for its functionality for electronic resources (large academic: 5.50; mid-sized academic: 4.74; consortia: 6.70; large public: 5.25). Consortia using Symphony gave SirsiDynix very strong loyalty scores (8.16); loyalty was weaker for academic libraries (large: 6.24; mid-sized: 5.79; small: 5.97) than publics (large: 7.18; mid-sized: 7.06; small: 6.69).
18.6 percent of libraries (81 out of 436 responses) indicated consideration of migrating from Symphony. Of those registering interest in changing, 44 were academic libraries. Candidate systems mentioned included Alma (21), WorldShare Management Services (20), Sierra (13), Polaris (9), FOLIO (9), Koha (9). 10 mentioned remaining with Symphony among the considerations.
SirsiDynix Symphony has seen steadily improving ratings in this survey since 2008.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Symphony | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 431 | 6.79 | 68 | 6.24 | 39 | 6.28 | 22 | 6.45 | 156 | 6.85 | 53 | 7.23 | 17 | 6.88 | 15 | 7.60 | 24 | 7.54 |
| ILSFunctionality | 431 | 6.82 | 68 | 6.60 | 39 | 6.38 | 22 | 6.27 | 156 | 6.85 | 53 | 7.08 | 17 | 6.88 | 15 | 7.33 | 24 | 7.75 |
| PrintFunctionality | 426 | 7.32 | 67 | 7.16 | 38 | 7.16 | 22 | 7.64 | 155 | 7.14 | 52 | 7.62 | 17 | 6.47 | 15 | 8.07 | 24 | 8.17 |
| ElectronicFunctionality | 422 | 5.74 | 67 | 5.07 | 39 | 4.74 | 22 | 5.50 | 151 | 6.01 | 52 | 6.12 | 16 | 5.25 | 15 | 6.60 | 23 | 6.70 |
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 418 | 7.11 | 67 | 6.78 | 39 | 7.03 | 22 | 6.73 | 146 | 7.05 | 52 | 7.25 | 17 | 7.35 | 15 | 7.60 | 24 | 8.13 |
| CompanyLoyalty | 425 | 6.64 | 67 | 5.97 | 38 | 5.79 | 21 | 6.24 | 153 | 6.69 | 53 | 7.06 | 17 | 7.18 | 14 | 7.43 | 25 | 8.16 |
Horizon
Libraries using Horizon (full product report and narrative comments), continue to show less interest in changing systems, apparently accepting the messaging from SirsiDynix that it will continue to be supported in the long term. Horizon, implemented in many types of libraries, is the only legacy system showing decreased numbers in libraries considering migrating to a new system (see selection/deselection report). This year 28 out of 99 (28.6%) responses indicated interest in change, less than the 34.9% seen last year, and dramaticly less than in 2008 when 61.5 percent of libraries using Horizon indicated they were shopping for a new system. Of those libraries indicating interest in mmoving away from Horizon, candidate systems included Symphony (9), Koha (6 ), Sierra (4), Polaris (4), WorldShare Management Services (3), Alma (2), and Evergreen (1).
This year Horizon received top scores for customer support by small academic libraries (7.85). Horizon received higher scores in general satasfaction from public libraries (mid-sized: 7.00) than from academics (mid-sized: 6.22). Small academic libraries using Horizon expressed stronger loyalty to SirsiDynix (7.31) than mid-sized academics (5.33); consortia were most loyal (7.67); public librares were in between (large: 6.89). Mid-sized academics gave Horizon higher scores in print functionality (7.89) and lowest for electronic resource functionality (4.11). All types of libraries using Horizon gave SirsiDynix relatively stong scores for customer support (small academic: 7.85; mid-sized public: 7.50; consortia: 7.33).
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Horizon | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 97 | 6.76 | 13 | 6.77 | 9 | 6.22 | 2 | 23 | 7.04 | 22 | 7.00 | 9 | 6.56 | 2 | 6 | 6.83 | ||
| ILSFunctionality | 99 | 6.56 | 13 | 7.08 | 9 | 5.33 | 2 | 24 | 6.58 | 22 | 6.77 | 9 | 6.33 | 2 | 6 | 7.00 | ||
| PrintFunctionality | 99 | 7.49 | 13 | 7.62 | 9 | 7.89 | 2 | 24 | 7.38 | 22 | 7.82 | 9 | 6.56 | 2 | 6 | 8.00 | ||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 97 | 5.11 | 12 | 5.50 | 9 | 4.11 | 2 | 24 | 5.42 | 22 | 4.77 | 9 | 5.11 | 2 | 6 | 6.50 | ||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 97 | 7.22 | 13 | 7.85 | 8 | 6.25 | 2 | 24 | 7.33 | 22 | 7.50 | 9 | 6.44 | 2 | 6 | 7.33 | ||
| CompanyLoyalty | 99 | 6.55 | 13 | 7.31 | 9 | 5.33 | 2 | 24 | 6.67 | 22 | 6.86 | 9 | 6.89 | 2 | 6 | 7.67 | ||
EOS.Web
EOS.Web (full product report and narrative comments), acquired by SirsiDynix in November 2013, received 33 responses in this year's survey. The product is used mostly by special libraries and does not appear in the statistical summary tables in this report. In almost all categories, ratings for EOS.Web have been declining since 2011, a year when this product received its best scores. Libraries gave EOS.Web stronger scores in 2015, but this year saw a drop in scores. Libraries using EOS.Web give higher ratings for print functionality (7.16) than for electronic (5.77). Its highest ratings were given for customer support (7.53). Of the 32 responses, 6 (18.8%) indicated interest in migrating to a new system.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| EOS.Web | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 32 | 6.84 | 8 | 5.25 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| ILSFunctionality | 32 | 6.63 | 8 | 5.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| PrintFunctionality | 31 | 7.16 | 8 | 6.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 30 | 5.77 | 8 | 4.25 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 32 | 7.53 | 8 | 5.88 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 32 | 6.56 | 8 | 4.88 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
The Library Corporation
The Library Corporation (view company profile) working primarily with public libraries, offers the Library.Solution and CARL.X integrated library systems. This year there were 97 responses from libraries using Library.Solution and 9 for libraries using Carl.X.
Library.Solution
Library.Solution (full product report and narrative comments), implemented primarily in small to mid-sized public libraries performed best in the mid-sized public library arena, from whom it received top ratings for general satisfaction (7.63) and overall ILS functionality (7.67). In most categories, Library.Solution received lower ratings this year than in 2015. Small public libraries gave The Library Corporation higher ratings for customer support (7.67); Mid-sized publi libraries rated functionality for electronic resource functionality as weaker (6.11) than for print (7.44). 12 out of the 97 respnoses (12.4%) indicated interest in migrating to a new product.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Library.Solution | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 95 | 7.16 | 9 | 6.33 | 3 | 0 | 56 | 7.29 | 9 | 7.11 | 0 | 12 | 7.58 | 0 | ||||
| ILSFunctionality | 95 | 7.19 | 9 | 6.78 | 3 | 0 | 56 | 7.36 | 9 | 7.22 | 0 | 12 | 7.17 | 0 | ||||
| PrintFunctionality | 95 | 7.28 | 9 | 7.00 | 3 | 0 | 56 | 7.18 | 9 | 7.44 | 0 | 12 | 7.67 | 0 | ||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 94 | 6.30 | 9 | 5.22 | 3 | 0 | 55 | 6.60 | 9 | 6.11 | 0 | 12 | 6.33 | 0 | ||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 92 | 7.58 | 8 | 6.88 | 3 | 0 | 54 | 7.67 | 9 | 7.22 | 0 | 12 | 8.08 | 0 | ||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 90 | 6.70 | 9 | 6.78 | 3 | 0 | 53 | 6.62 | 9 | 7.00 | 0 | 10 | 7.60 | 0 | ||||
Carl.X
Carl.x (full product report and narrative comments), is used primarily by large municipal libraries and consortia. With only 9 responses this year, Carl.X does not appear in the statistical tables. Ratings given for Carl.X were substantially higher this year than those given in 2015 and better than any previous year. Libraries using Carl.X gave The Library Corporation higher scores in company loyalty than any other category.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Carl.X | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 9 | 7.22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| ILSFunctionality | 9 | 6.44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| PrintFunctionality | 8 | 6.88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 8 | 5.88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 8 | 6.75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 8 | 7.63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
Biblionix
Biblionix (view company profile) is a small family-owned and managed business based in Austin, TX that focuses entirely on small and mid-sized public libraries and has developed Apollo an entirely web-based ILS deployed through a multi-tenant platform. This year 106 libraries using Apollo responded to the survey, all from public libraries.
Apollo
Apollo (full product report and narrative comments), is a Web-based integrated library system implemented only by public libraries with small or mid-sized collections. Apollo was the top performer among small public libraries: general satisfaction (8.40), overall functionality (8.24), print resource management (8.26), electronic resource management (8.00), customer support (8.63). It also topped the tables among very small public libraries for general satisfaction (8.57), overall ILS functionality (8.40), print resource management (8.50), electronic resource management (8.21), customer support (8.41), and company loyalty (8.13). This product has seen consistently positive rankings for all the years it has appeared in the survey. It received top scores in all categories by very small public libraries. The only category in which Apollo did not lead among small public libraries was loyalty to company question, in which ByWater Solutions received a higher score (8.20 vs 7.88). Within the realm of small and very small public libraries, Apollo has exceptionally happy customers.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Apollo | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 102 | 8.50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 8.50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| ILSFunctionality | 103 | 8.33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 8.32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| PrintFunctionality | 103 | 8.42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 8.41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 103 | 8.13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 8.12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 102 | 8.47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 8.47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 102 | 8.07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 8.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Book Systems, Inc.
Book Systems (view company profile) develops software used primarily in schools and small public libraries, primarily in the United States.
Atriuum
This year 102 libraries using Atriuum (full product report and narrative comments), from Book Systems responded to the survey; 89 were from small public libraries and 6 from school libraries. The company earned its strongest ratings in customer support (8.08); in this category School libraries (8.67) gave Atriuum slightly better scores than the small publics 7.99). Since 2007 ratings across categories have been improving fairly steadily.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Atriuum | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 101 | 7.91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 7.82 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8.33 | 0 | ||||||
| ILSFunctionality | 101 | 7.79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 7.68 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8.67 | 0 | ||||||
| PrintFunctionality | 97 | 7.98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 7.88 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8.67 | 0 | ||||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 97 | 6.77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 6.54 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8.50 | 0 | ||||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 99 | 8.08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 7.99 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8.67 | 0 | ||||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 98 | 7.84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 7.76 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8.00 | 0 | ||||||
Civica
Civica operates primarily outside of the United States, with a strong presence in the United Kingdom, Asia, and Australia, and serves mostly public and school libraries.
Spydus
This year 45 libraries using Spydus (full product report and narrative comments), from Civica responded to the survey, with most coming from small and mid-sized public libraries and all from outside the United States. Of the 45 libraries responding, only 3 (6.7%)indicated interest in migrating to a new system. Spydus sees its highest ratings among mid-sized public libraries in print functionality (6.92) and lowest in functionality for electronic resources (4.62). Civica receives strong loyalty scores from small (7.29) and mid-sized (6.85) public libraries. Since 2011 ratings for Spydus have been mostly consistent and generally positive in all categories. This year saw an increasy in company loyalty, but a slight drop in other categories.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Spydus | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 45 | 6.73 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 7.26 | 13 | 6.46 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| ILSFunctionality | 45 | 6.93 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 7.30 | 13 | 6.92 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| PrintFunctionality | 43 | 6.95 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 6.95 | 13 | 6.92 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 45 | 5.18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 5.74 | 13 | 4.62 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 44 | 6.45 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 6.91 | 13 | 5.92 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 43 | 7.12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 7.29 | 13 | 6.85 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Koha
| Support provider | Responses | General Satisfaction |
|---|---|---|
| All Installations | 275 | 7.57 |
| ByWater Solutions | 124 | 7.74 |
| Independent | 75 | 7.88 |
| LibLime | 30 | 6.67 |
| PTFS Europe | 6 | 7.83 |
| BibLibre | 4 | -- |
| Catalyst | 3 | -- |
| Kobli | 3 | -- |
| Equinox | 4 | -- |
| Interleaf Technology | 3 | -- |
Koha (full product report and narrative comments), an open source integrated library system has been implemented by libraries of all types and in all parts of the world.
As an open source ILS, Koha can be downloaded and installed by libraries on their own, though many contract for installation, support, or hosting from commercial or non-profit support organizations. Those implementing Koha on their own are designated "Koha -- Independent" and others are qualified by the name of the support firm. The following table summarizes the number of libraries using Koha, their support arrangement, the number responses, and the general product support rating. Those with fewer than 6 responses fall below the threshold of performing the statistical calculations. This year 275 libraries using Koha responded to the survey. Libraries of all types use Koha, reflected in this year’s responses:
- Consortium: 2
- School: 11
- Large Academic: 2
- Medium Academic: 15
- Small Academic: 65
- Large Public: 1
- Medium Public: 8
- Small Public: 94
When aggregating response scores across all support arrangements, ratings given to Koha have been slowly rising since 2011. Scores saw a sharp peak in 2010, while 2008 and 2009 were much lower than previous or subsequent years.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Koha | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 269 | 7.57 | 65 | 7.71 | 15 | 7.80 | 2 | 94 | 7.65 | 8 | 7.25 | 1 | 11 | 6.55 | 2 | |||
| ILSFunctionality | 269 | 7.35 | 65 | 7.37 | 15 | 7.47 | 2 | 94 | 7.43 | 8 | 6.25 | 1 | 11 | 6.82 | 2 | |||
| PrintFunctionality | 268 | 7.60 | 65 | 8.08 | 15 | 7.60 | 2 | 94 | 7.30 | 8 | 7.75 | 1 | 11 | 7.18 | 2 | |||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 260 | 6.07 | 65 | 6.12 | 15 | 5.60 | 2 | 90 | 6.13 | 8 | 6.38 | 1 | 11 | 6.09 | 2 | |||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 256 | 7.36 | 63 | 7.52 | 15 | 7.20 | 2 | 88 | 7.53 | 8 | 8.13 | 1 | 10 | 6.30 | 2 | |||
| CompanyLoyalty | 249 | 7.07 | 59 | 7.12 | 15 | 6.13 | 2 | 90 | 7.26 | 8 | 8.25 | 1 | 10 | 6.10 | 2 | |||
ByWater Solutions
Koha supported by ByWater Solutions (full product report and narrative comments), (view company profile) offers support services for Koha, with most of its client libraries located in the United States. ByWater serves many different types of libraries (see charts for library type and library size). This year’s breakdown included 76 public libraries, 28 academics, 1 consortium, and 4 schools.
ByWater Solutions earned highest scores in management of electronic resources for mid-sized public libraries (6.46) and satisfaction with customer support (7.67). Small public libraries gave ByWater Solutions the highest company loyalty ratings (8.20). 96.0 percent of its clients reported that their system was implemented on schedule. When comparing rankings across the multiple years of the survey, ByWater has seen diminishing satisfaction from 2010 through 2014, with a significant improvement in 2015 and 2016.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 124 | 7.74 | 27 | 7.74 | 1 | 0 | 66 | 7.88 | 8 | 7.25 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| ILSFunctionality | 124 | 7.44 | 27 | 7.37 | 1 | 0 | 66 | 7.61 | 8 | 6.25 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| PrintFunctionality | 124 | 7.61 | 27 | 7.96 | 1 | 0 | 66 | 7.48 | 8 | 7.75 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 120 | 6.17 | 27 | 5.81 | 1 | 0 | 63 | 6.32 | 8 | 6.38 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 121 | 7.90 | 27 | 7.81 | 1 | 0 | 63 | 8.00 | 8 | 8.13 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 120 | 7.78 | 26 | 8.04 | 1 | 0 | 65 | 7.63 | 8 | 8.25 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||||
Evergreen
Evergreen, (full product report and narrative comments). an open source ILS implemented primarily in consortia of public libraries received 114 survey responses this year. Of these responses, 70 were from small public libraries, 14 from medium sized public libraries, 11 from small academics, and 2 from mid-sized academics (see charts for library type and library size). Among small public libraries, Evergreen received the higher ratings for its print functionality (7.42) than for functionality for electronic resources (6.50).
Most libraries using Evergreen rely on Equinox Software for hosting and support services, with a minority of implementations operate without commercially-povided support services.
Equinox software received the highest ratings by mid-sized public libraries in the category of company loyalty (7.90).
Evergreen, (informe completo del producto y comentarios) es un ILS de código abierto que ha sido implementado principalmente en consorcios de bibliotecas públicas, del que se han recibido 114 respuestas en la encuesta de este año. Del total, 70 fueron de bibliotecas públicas pequeñas, 14 de bibliotecas públicas medianas, 11 de bibliotecas universitarias pequeñas y 2 de bibliotecas universitarias medianas (ver tablas por tipo de biblioteca y tamaño de biblioteca). Recibió las calificaciones más altas por la gestión de productos impresos (7,42) y las más bajas por la gestión de los recursos electrónicos (6,50).
La mayoría de las bibliotecas que utilizan Evergreen dependen del servicio de alojamiento y atención Equinox Software. Sólo una minoría no depende de servicios comerciales.
Equinox software recibió las puntuaciones más altas por parte de las bibliotecas públicas medianas en la categoría de fidelidad a la compañía (7,90).
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Evergreen | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 114 | 7.22 | 11 | 7.09 | 2 | 0 | 70 | 7.31 | 14 | 7.00 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7.38 | ||||
| ILSFunctionality | 113 | 7.19 | 10 | 6.90 | 2 | 0 | 71 | 7.41 | 13 | 6.54 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7.75 | ||||
| PrintFunctionality | 112 | 7.42 | 10 | 7.60 | 2 | 0 | 69 | 7.42 | 14 | 7.07 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8.38 | ||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 112 | 6.29 | 10 | 5.20 | 2 | 0 | 70 | 6.50 | 13 | 6.15 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6.00 | ||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 111 | 7.47 | 10 | 7.80 | 2 | 0 | 68 | 7.56 | 14 | 7.29 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7.50 | ||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 104 | 7.03 | 11 | 7.27 | 1 | 0 | 62 | 7.08 | 13 | 7.62 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6.88 | ||||
Follett School Solutions
Follett ranks as the leading provider of technology products for school libraries, with around 70 percent of the public school libraries in the United States using its Destiny products (chart of implementations by library type). OPALS holds a fraction of the market share in the school library sector compared to Destiny, though libraries running OPALS respond enthusiastically to this survey.
Destiny
Follett has developed its Destiny ILS primarily for the PreK-12 school library sector, though it is also used in small public libraries. This year 621 libraries using Destiny responded to the survey, with 539 from schools and 61 from small public libraries (full product report and narrative comments). It is not surprising that school libraries rated Destiny higher than did public libraries. The general ILS satisfaction rating for school libraries was 7.71 and 6.93 for publics. Destiny received its highest marks for print functionality (8.02), customer support (7.71), and general satisfaction (7.71). This product was seen as weakest in functionality for electronic resources (6.91). Destiny has seen steadily rising scores in the survey since 2010, with a spike in 2013.
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| Destiny | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 611 | 7.54 | 7 | 6.14 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 6.39 | 0 | 0 | 530 | 7.71 | 1 | |||||
| ILSFunctionality | 602 | 7.45 | 8 | 7.00 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 6.20 | 0 | 0 | 521 | 7.62 | 1 | |||||
| PrintFunctionality | 609 | 7.89 | 8 | 7.50 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 7.02 | 0 | 0 | 527 | 8.02 | 1 | |||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 574 | 6.75 | 7 | 4.43 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 5.75 | 0 | 0 | 498 | 6.91 | 1 | |||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 594 | 7.57 | 8 | 6.63 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 6.83 | 0 | 0 | 513 | 7.71 | 1 | |||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 590 | 7.24 | 8 | 5.88 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 5.62 | 0 | 0 | 509 | 7.48 | 1 | |||||
Circulation Plus, Athena, Winnebago Spectrum
Follett’s legacy products continue to see use, through the numbers are diminishing. This year 4 libraries using Winnebago Spectrum and one each using Athena and Circulation Plus responded to the survey.
OPALS
The open source OPALS ILS (full product report and narrative comments) implemented primarily in school libraries (chart of implementations by library type), received its usual enthusiastic response, with 220 libraries using OPALS completing the survey. OPALS was developed and supported by Media Flex, Inc. (view company profile). Many libraries using OPALS receive support services from their district rather than from Media Flex directly. In the state of New York, many of the BOCES provide OPALS for the school libraries they support. This year, 148 responses for OPALS came from school libraries, 8 from consortia, and 7 from small academic libraries.
OPALS received top ratings in all categories by libraries serving PreK-12 Schools: Overall satisfaction (8.65), ILS functionality (8.65), print functionality (8.70), electronic resource functionality (7.65), and company loyalty (8.58).
The following table presents the 2016 survey results by library type and size
| OPALS | all | Academic | Public | School | Consortium | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | medium | large | small | medium | large | |||||||||||||
| n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | n | avg | |
| SatisfactionLevelILS | 218 | 8.59 | 7 | 8.29 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 148 | 8.65 | 8 | 7.63 | |||||
| ILSFunctionality | 218 | 8.54 | 7 | 8.00 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 148 | 8.65 | 8 | 7.38 | |||||
| PrintFunctionality | 218 | 8.67 | 7 | 8.43 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 148 | 8.70 | 8 | 8.00 | |||||
| ElectronicFunctionality | 187 | 7.67 | 7 | 7.29 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 133 | 7.65 | 8 | 7.25 | |||||
| SatisfactionCustomerSupport | 215 | 8.63 | 7 | 8.71 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 147 | 8.69 | 7 | 7.71 | |||||
| CompanyLoyalty | 215 | 8.52 | 6 | 8.33 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 147 | 8.58 | 8 | 7.50 | |||||
FOLIO
FOLIO is a new open source initiative to create a new library services platform with financial backing from EBSCO Information Systems (vendor profile) with initial development contracted to Index Data, and with the Open Library Environment providing community engagement and educational activities. See EBSCO Supports New Open Source Project published by American Libraries for further information on FOLIO.
As a new initiative, the software is not yet complete and no libraries have yet implemented it in production. The results of this survey do provide some indicators for the level of interest for FOLIO. Of libraries indicating interest in moving to a new automation system, 41 mentioned FOLIO as a candidate. By comparison, in last year's survey 17 libraries mentioned interest in Kuali OLE, which had been an active project for about 7 years. FOLIO was publicly announced in April of 2016. When specifically asked which open source products may be of interest, regardless of active plans to migrate, 87 mentioned FOLIO, 273 mentioned Koha, 84 mentioned Evergreen, and 12 mentioned Kuali OLE. FOLIO was mentioned 12 times in narrative comments.
Selected Statistical Tables
Emphasis on Peer Groups
Public, academic, school, and special libraries each have distinct expectations for their automation products. Previous editions of survey report presented results in comprehensive tables that aggregate results given across all types and sizes of libraries. With the increased number of responses, combined with the enrichment of survey responses with demographic data from each responding library from its entry in the libraries.org directory, for the last three years the results have been presented primarily within peer groups. Separate tables are included for the key areas of ILS satisfaction and functionality completeness for public, academic, and school libraries and according to collection size categories.
Tables assembled according to peer groups provide a more fair set comparisons as libraries consider the best products and providers to meet their future automation needs.
This approach enables libraries to make more balanced comparisons and interpretations of the results. Presenting results through amalgamated tables gives a false impression that the products that serve very small libraries perform at a higher level than more sophisticated products designed to serve larger and more complex automation scenarios. Stronger and weaker products emerge more clearly when presented within tables organized by library type and collection size. Examples of the category combination tables are presented below. The interactive version of the survey results dynamically assembles statistical result tables according to any combination of report category, library type, collection size, and country.
Public Libraries
Large Public Libraries: General ILS Satisfaction (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is the library with your current Integrated Library System (ILS)? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '500001') (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Polaris | 25 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 7.76 | 8 | 1.60 | |||||
| Symphony | 38 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 7.39 | 7 | 0.65 | |||||
| Horizon | 18 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 6.61 | 7 | 1.65 | |||||
| Sierra | 32 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 5.25 | 6 | 1.41 | |
| All Responses | 152 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 24 | 49 | 32 | 17 | 7 | 6.65 | 7 | 0.65 |
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Large Public Libraries: Overall ILS Functionality (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How complete is the functionality of this ILS relative to the needs of this library? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '500001') (2016)
| ILS Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Polaris | 25 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 7.40 | 8 | 1.60 | |||||
| Symphony | 38 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 7.16 | 7 | 1.14 | ||||
| Horizon | 18 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 6.56 | 7 | 1.89 | ||||||
| Sierra | 32 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5.81 | 6 | 1.41 | |||
| All Responses | 152 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 25 | 56 | 35 | 5 | 7 | 6.55 | 7 | 0.73 | |
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Large Public Libraries: Effectiveness for print resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's print resources? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '500001') (2016)
| Print Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Polaris | 25 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7.68 | 8 | 1.80 | |||||
| Symphony | 38 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 7.32 | 8 | 1.14 | |||||
| Horizon | 18 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 7.11 | 8 | 1.89 | |||||
| Sierra | 32 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6.47 | 7 | 1.41 | |||
| All Responses | 152 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 48 | 48 | 20 | 7 | 6.99 | 7 | 0.73 | ||
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Large Public Libraries: effectiveness for electronic resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's electronic resources? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '500001') (2016)
| Electronic Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Polaris | 25 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6.08 | 6 | 1.40 | ||||
| Symphony | 37 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5.86 | 6 | 0.00 | |
| Sierra | 31 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 5.16 | 6 | 1.44 | |||
| Horizon | 18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4.89 | 6 | 1.89 | |||
| All Responses | 150 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 43 | 30 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 5.35 | 6 | 0.73 |
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Large Public Libraries: Satisfaction with customer support (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is this library with this company's customer support services? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '500001') (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS Support | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Symphony | 38 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 7.63 | 8 | 1.14 | |||||
| Polaris | 25 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7.52 | 8 | 1.80 | ||||
| Horizon | 18 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 6.94 | 7 | 1.65 | ||||
| Sierra | 31 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3.77 | 4 | 1.44 | |
| All Responses | 150 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 22 | 28 | 26 | 30 | 9 | 6.37 | 7 | 0.49 |
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Large Public Libraries: Company Loyalty (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How likely is it that this library will purchase its next ILS from this company? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '500001') (2016)
| Loyalty to Company Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Symphony | 38 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 7.34 | 8 | 0.65 | |||
| Polaris | 25 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 7.12 | 8 | 1.60 | ||||
| Horizon | 18 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 6.83 | 7 | 1.65 | ||||
| Sierra | 30 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4.80 | 5 | 1.64 | |
| All Responses | 149 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 18 | 27 | 34 | 25 | 8 | 6.46 | 7 | 0.66 |
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Medium-sized Public Libraries: General ILS Satisfaction (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is the library with your current Integrated Library System (ILS)? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '100001') (CollectionSize < '500000') (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Library.Solution | 24 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 7.63 | 8 | 1.43 | |||||
| Spydus | 23 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 7.52 | 7 | 1.46 | ||||||
| Polaris | 60 | 1 | 8 | 23 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 7.45 | 7 | 0.77 | |||||
| Horizon | 23 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 7.26 | 7 | 1.67 | |||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 13 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7.15 | 7 | 1.39 | |||||
| Symphony | 83 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 26 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 6.57 | 7 | 0.88 | |
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 10 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6.50 | 7 | 1.90 | ||||||
| Sierra | 71 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 6.46 | 7 | 0.71 | |
| All Responses | 387 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 23 | 58 | 125 | 100 | 42 | 7 | 6.81 | 7 | 0.30 |
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Medium-sized Public Libraries: Overall ILS Functionality (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How complete is the functionality of this ILS relative to the needs of this library? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '100001') (CollectionSize < '500000') (2016)
| ILS Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Library.Solution | 24 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 7.67 | 8 | 1.63 | ||||
| Spydus | 23 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 7.65 | 8 | 1.46 | ||||||
| Polaris | 60 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 7.50 | 7 | 0.65 | |||||
| Horizon | 23 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6.87 | 7 | 1.46 | ||||
| Sierra | 71 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 22 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 6.68 | 7 | 0.71 | |
| Symphony | 84 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 32 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 6.65 | 7 | 0.87 | |
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 6.46 | 7 | 1.39 | |||||
| All Responses | 387 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 31 | 55 | 128 | 98 | 47 | 7 | 6.90 | 7 | 0.25 |
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Medium-sized Public Libraries: Effectiveness for print resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's print resources? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '100001') (CollectionSize < '500000') (2016)
| Print Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Horizon | 23 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7.87 | 8 | 1.67 | ||||||
| Polaris | 59 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 23 | 17 | 8 | 7.83 | 8 | 0.91 | ||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 13 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 7.54 | 8 | 1.39 | ||||||
| Spydus | 22 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 7.36 | 8 | 1.49 | ||||
| Sierra | 71 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 7.28 | 7 | 0.71 | ||||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7.10 | 8 | 2.53 | |||||
| Symphony | 82 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 30 | 14 | 8 | 7.07 | 8 | 0.88 | |
| Library.Solution | 24 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7.04 | 8 | 1.63 | ||||
| All Responses | 384 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 25 | 32 | 95 | 127 | 76 | 8 | 7.18 | 8 | 0.36 |
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Medium-sized Public Libraries: Effectiveness for electronic resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's electronic resources? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '100001') (CollectionSize < '500000') (2016)
| Electronic Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 13 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6.46 | 6 | 0.83 | |||||
| Polaris | 59 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 6.44 | 7 | 0.52 | |||
| Library.Solution | 23 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6.39 | 7 | 1.67 | |||
| Symphony | 80 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 18 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 5.78 | 6 | 0.78 |
| Spydus | 23 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5.61 | 6 | 1.04 | ||
| Sierra | 71 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5.37 | 5 | 0.71 | |
| Horizon | 23 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5.17 | 5 | 1.88 | ||
| All Responses | 381 | 13 | 5 | 18 | 24 | 23 | 61 | 77 | 82 | 53 | 25 | 7 | 5.76 | 6 | 0.20 |
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Medium-sized Public Libraries: Satisfaction with customer support (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is this library with this company's customer support services? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '100001') (CollectionSize < '500000') (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS Support | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 12 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 7.67 | 8 | 1.73 | ||||||
| Horizon | 23 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7.61 | 8 | 1.67 | ||||||
| Library.Solution | 23 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 7.57 | 8 | 1.46 | ||||
| Spydus | 22 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 7.18 | 7 | 1.28 | |||||
| Polaris | 59 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 7.07 | 7 | 0.65 | |||
| Symphony | 79 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 25 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 6.75 | 7 | 1.01 | |
| Sierra | 70 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5.24 | 5 | 0.60 |
| All Responses | 377 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 45 | 56 | 84 | 78 | 68 | 7 | 6.63 | 7 | 0.26 |
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Medium-sized Public Libraries: Company Loyalty (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How likely is it that this library will purchase its next ILS from this company? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '100001') (CollectionSize < '500000') (2016)
| Loyalty to Company Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 7.90 | 9 | 2.85 | ||||||
| Spydus | 22 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 7.86 | 8 | 1.49 | |||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 7.77 | 9 | 1.66 | ||||
| Polaris | 59 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 7.03 | 7 | 0.65 | |||
| Horizon | 23 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6.87 | 7 | 1.67 | |||
| Library.Solution | 24 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6.79 | 8 | 1.84 | ||
| Symphony | 82 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 6.65 | 7 | 0.77 | |
| Sierra | 71 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 5.69 | 6 | 0.59 | |
| All Responses | 385 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 34 | 39 | 54 | 70 | 74 | 84 | 9 | 6.56 | 7 | 0.25 |
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Small Public Libraries: General ILS Satisfaction (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is the library with your current Integrated Library System (ILS)? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '30001') (CollectionSize < '100000') (2016)
| 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 | 35 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 23 | 9 | 8.40 | 9 | 1.52 | ||||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 30 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 8.07 | 8 | 1.64 | ||||||
| Atriuum | 35 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 16 | 9 | 7.80 | 8 | 1.35 | ||||
| Evergreen -- Independent | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 7.58 | 8 | 2.02 | |||||
| Polaris | 51 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 7.33 | 8 | 1.12 | ||||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 6.92 | 7 | 2.22 | ||||
| Library.Solution | 30 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6.90 | 7 | 1.46 | ||
| Symphony | 58 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 5 | 8 | 6.74 | 7 | 0.92 |
| VERSO | 29 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 6.52 | 7 | 0.74 | ||
| Destiny | 24 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5.96 | 7 | 1.63 | |||
| Sierra | 41 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 5.93 | 7 | 1.25 | |
| All Responses | 436 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 26 | 46 | 98 | 116 | 101 | 8 | 7.00 | 7 | 0.43 |
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Small Public Libraries: Overall ILS Functionality (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How complete is the functionality of this ILS relative to the needs of this library? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '30001') (CollectionSize < '100000') (2016)
| ILS Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Apollo | 34 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 18 | 9 | 8.24 | 9 | 1.54 | ||||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 30 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 7.70 | 8 | 1.46 | ||||||
| Evergreen -- Independent | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 7.67 | 8 | 2.02 | |||||
| Atriuum | 35 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 7.66 | 8 | 1.35 | ||||
| Polaris | 51 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 7.27 | 8 | 1.12 | |||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 13 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7.08 | 7 | 1.94 | |||||
| Library.Solution | 30 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 7.00 | 7 | 1.46 | |||
| Symphony | 58 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 6.74 | 7 | 1.05 | ||
| VERSO | 29 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 6.55 | 7 | 0.74 | ||
| Sierra | 41 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 6.37 | 7 | 1.25 | ||
| Destiny | 24 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 5.88 | 6 | 1.63 | ||
| All Responses | 436 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 20 | 25 | 42 | 99 | 124 | 93 | 8 | 7.00 | 7 | 0.43 |
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Small Public Libraries: Effectiveness for print resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's print resources? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '30001') (CollectionSize < '100000') (2016)
| Print Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Apollo | 35 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 9 | 8.26 | 9 | 1.35 | |||||
| Atriuum | 34 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 9 | 7.94 | 9 | 1.37 | |||
| Polaris | 49 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 20 | 9 | 7.86 | 8 | 1.14 | |||
| Evergreen -- Independent | 12 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7.33 | 8 | 2.02 | ||||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 30 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 7.20 | 8 | 1.64 | |||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7.17 | 8 | 2.31 | |||||
| Destiny | 24 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7.17 | 7 | 1.63 | ||||
| Library.Solution | 30 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 7.10 | 8 | 1.46 | ||||
| Symphony | 57 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 23 | 9 | 8 | 7.05 | 8 | 1.06 | |||
| VERSO | 29 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 7.03 | 7 | 0.74 | ||||
| Sierra | 40 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 6.60 | 7 | 1.26 | |
| All Responses | 429 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 16 | 37 | 85 | 124 | 121 | 8 | 7.22 | 8 | 0.39 |
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Small Public Libraries: Effectiveness for electronic resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's electronic resources? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '30001') (CollectionSize < '100000') (2016)
| Electronic Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Apollo | 35 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 9 | 8.00 | 9 | 1.35 | |||||
| Atriuum | 34 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 6.82 | 8 | 1.20 | |
| Evergreen -- Independent | 12 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6.50 | 7 | 2.31 | ||||
| Library.Solution | 30 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 6.47 | 7 | 1.46 | ||
| Polaris | 48 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 6.38 | 7 | 1.15 | ||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 30 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 6.07 | 7 | 1.46 | ||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5.85 | 6 | 1.39 | ||||
| Symphony | 55 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 5.69 | 6 | 0.81 |
| Destiny | 22 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5.55 | 6 | 1.49 | |
| VERSO | 25 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5.52 | 6 | 0.80 | |
| Sierra | 40 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4.83 | 6 | 1.11 |
| All Responses | 418 | 25 | 13 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 36 | 64 | 86 | 61 | 71 | 7 | 5.97 | 7 | 0.39 |
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Small Public Libraries: Satisfaction with customer support (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is this library with this company's customer support services? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '30001') (CollectionSize < '100000') (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS Support | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Apollo | 35 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 9 | 8.63 | 9 | 1.52 | ||||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 30 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 9 | 8.33 | 9 | 1.64 | |||||
| Atriuum | 35 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 9 | 7.86 | 9 | 1.18 | |||
| Evergreen -- Independent | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 7.67 | 9 | 1.73 | ||||
| VERSO | 28 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 7.61 | 8 | 0.57 | |||||
| Library.Solution | 29 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 7.41 | 8 | 1.49 | |||
| Symphony | 53 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 6.87 | 7 | 1.10 | ||
| Polaris | 48 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 6.73 | 7 | 0.72 | |
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6.50 | 7 | 2.02 | |||
| Destiny | 23 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6.17 | 7 | 1.88 | ||
| Sierra | 40 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 5.42 | 6 | 1.26 | |
| All Responses | 420 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 19 | 28 | 42 | 77 | 76 | 142 | 9 | 7.04 | 8 | 0.44 |
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Small Public Libraries: Company Loyalty (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How likely is it that this library will purchase its next ILS from this company? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize > '30001') (CollectionSize < '100000') (2016)
| Loyalty to Company Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 30 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 9 | 8.20 | 9 | 1.64 | |||||
| Atriuum | 35 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 9 | 7.91 | 9 | 1.35 | |||
| Apollo | 34 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 9 | 7.88 | 9 | 1.54 | ||||
| Polaris | 50 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 9 | 6.82 | 8 | 0.57 | ||
| Symphony | 57 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 6.58 | 7 | 1.06 | |
| VERSO | 29 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 6.55 | 7 | 0.00 | |||
| Library.Solution | 27 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 6.15 | 7 | 1.35 |
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6.09 | 7 | 2.41 | ||||
| Sierra | 41 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5.46 | 6 | 0.94 | |
| Destiny | 23 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 5.43 | 7 | 1.67 | |||
| All Responses | 419 | 33 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 17 | 32 | 38 | 57 | 84 | 131 | 9 | 6.60 | 8 | 0.44 |
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Very Small Public Libraries: General ILS Satisfaction (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is the library with your current Integrated Library System (ILS)? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize < '30000') (2016)
| 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 | 61 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 43 | 9 | 8.57 | 9 | 1.15 | |||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 30 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 7.83 | 8 | 1.64 | ||||||
| Atriuum | 49 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 19 | 8 | 7.82 | 8 | 0.29 | |||
| Symphony | 45 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 7.51 | 8 | 1.34 | |||
| Polaris | 34 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 7.38 | 8 | 1.54 | ||||
| VERSO | 43 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 7.35 | 7 | 1.07 | ||||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 22 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 7.18 | 8 | 1.71 | ||||
| Destiny | 37 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6.68 | 7 | 1.32 | ||
| LibraryWorld | 16 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6.31 | 6 | 1.25 | ||||
| Sierra | 19 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6.26 | 7 | 1.61 | ||||
| None | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 4.82 | 5 | 2.71 | ||||
| All Responses | 483 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 18 | 27 | 52 | 91 | 127 | 146 | 9 | 7.30 | 8 | 0.41 |
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Very Small Public Libraries: Overall ILS Functionality (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How complete is the functionality of this ILS relative to the needs of this library? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize < '30000') (2016)
| ILS Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Apollo | 63 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 39 | 9 | 8.40 | 9 | 1.13 | ||||
| Atriuum | 49 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 7.69 | 8 | 0.29 | |||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 30 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 7.67 | 8 | 1.46 | ||||||
| Polaris | 35 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 7.46 | 8 | 1.52 | |||||
| Symphony | 44 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 7.43 | 8 | 1.36 | |||
| VERSO | 42 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 5 | 8 | 7.33 | 8 | 0.93 | ||||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 22 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 7.23 | 7 | 1.71 | ||||
| Sierra | 19 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6.63 | 7 | 1.61 | ||||
| Destiny | 36 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 6.42 | 7 | 1.33 | |
| LibraryWorld | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6.06 | 6 | 1.25 | ||||
| None | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4.50 | 5 | 2.85 | ||||||
| All Responses | 481 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 19 | 31 | 52 | 89 | 140 | 127 | 8 | 7.21 | 8 | 0.41 |
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Very Small Public Libraries: Effectiveness for print resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's print resources? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize < '30000') (2016)
| Print Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Apollo | 62 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 42 | 9 | 8.50 | 9 | 1.14 | ||||
| Atriuum | 46 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 8 | 7.91 | 8 | 0.44 | |||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 30 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 7.80 | 8 | 1.46 | |||||
| Symphony | 45 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 7.58 | 8 | 1.34 | ||
| Polaris | 34 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 7.56 | 8 | 0.51 | ||||
| VERSO | 41 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 7.20 | 8 | 0.78 | |||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 21 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 7.10 | 8 | 1.96 | |||
| Destiny | 37 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 6.92 | 7 | 1.32 | ||
| LibraryWorld | 16 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6.75 | 7 | 2.00 | ||||
| Sierra | 18 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 6.50 | 7 | 1.65 | |||
| None | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4.40 | 5 | 2.85 | |||||
| All Responses | 475 | 12 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 27 | 36 | 81 | 139 | 151 | 9 | 7.34 | 8 | 0.41 | |
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Very Small Public Libraries: Effectiveness for electronic resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's electronic resources? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize < '30000') (2016)
| Electronic Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Apollo | 62 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 36 | 9 | 8.21 | 9 | 1.14 | ||||
| VERSO | 34 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7.09 | 7 | 1.20 | |||
| Polaris | 33 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 6.97 | 7 | 1.57 | |||
| Symphony | 45 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 6.80 | 8 | 1.34 | |
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 22 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 6.59 | 7 | 1.92 | ||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 27 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6.56 | 7 | 1.54 | |||
| Atriuum | 47 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6.38 | 8 | 1.17 | ||
| Destiny | 35 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5.89 | 6 | 1.01 | |
| Sierra | 19 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4.84 | 6 | 0.92 | ||
| LibraryWorld | 14 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4.50 | 6 | 0.00 | ||
| None | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3.60 | 4 | 2.85 | ||||||
| All Responses | 456 | 41 | 8 | 5 | 18 | 26 | 44 | 41 | 67 | 101 | 105 | 9 | 6.28 | 7 | 0.37 |
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Very Small Public Libraries: Satisfaction with customer support (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is this library with this company's customer support services? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize < '30000') (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS Support | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Apollo | 61 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 45 | 9 | 8.41 | 9 | 1.15 | |||
| Atriuum | 48 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 23 | 9 | 8.13 | 8 | 1.15 | ||||
| VERSO | 42 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 7.88 | 8 | 1.23 | |||||
| Symphony | 43 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 9 | 7.79 | 8 | 1.37 | |||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 28 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 7.79 | 8 | 1.51 | |||||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 21 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 7.38 | 8 | 1.96 | |||||
| Destiny | 37 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 7.24 | 8 | 1.32 | ||
| Polaris | 34 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 7.24 | 8 | 1.54 | |||
| LibraryWorld | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5.50 | 6 | 1.00 | |
| Sierra | 19 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5.47 | 5 | 1.38 | ||
| All Responses | 472 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 27 | 35 | 54 | 123 | 185 | 9 | 7.41 | 8 | 0.37 |
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Very Small Public Libraries: Company loyalty (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How likely is it that this library will purchase its next ILS from this company? (Library Type: Public) (CollectionSize < '30000') (2016)
| Loyalty to Company Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Apollo | 62 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 40 | 9 | 8.13 | 9 | 1.02 | |||
| Atriuum | 47 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 20 | 9 | 7.66 | 8 | 0.29 | ||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 19 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 7.47 | 8 | 2.06 | ||||
| VERSO | 42 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 7.31 | 8 | 0.93 | ||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 29 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 7.10 | 7 | 0.93 | |||
| Symphony | 44 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 9 | 7.09 | 8 | 1.36 | ||
| Polaris | 34 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6.29 | 7 | 0.00 | |||
| Sierra | 18 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5.83 | 7 | 0.94 | |||
| Destiny | 37 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 5.73 | 6 | 1.32 | |
| LibraryWorld | 16 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4.69 | 6 | 1.00 | ||
| All Responses | 468 | 27 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 28 | 46 | 40 | 57 | 92 | 157 | 9 | 6.78 | 8 | 0.37 |
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All Public Libraries: General ILS satisfaction (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is the library with your current Integrated Library System (ILS)? (Library Type: Public) (2016)
| 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 | 102 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 70 | 9 | 8.50 | 9 | 0.89 | ||||
| Atriuum | 89 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 28 | 36 | 9 | 7.83 | 8 | 0.85 | |||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 75 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 25 | 25 | 8 | 7.81 | 8 | 1.04 | |||||
| Evergreen -- Independent | 27 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 7.59 | 8 | 1.73 | ||||
| Polaris | 178 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 49 | 57 | 37 | 8 | 7.43 | 8 | 0.45 | ||
| Library.Solution | 65 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 23 | 13 | 8 | 7.26 | 8 | 0.87 | ||
| V-smart | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7.20 | 8 | 1.90 | |||||
| Axiell Aurora | 12 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 7.17 | 7 | 2.02 | |||||||
| Absys.Net | 11 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7.09 | 7 | 2.71 | |||||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 52 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 7.04 | 7 | 1.11 | ||||
| Koha -- Independent | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7.00 | 7 | 2.11 | ||||
| Koha -- LibLime | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 7.00 | 8 | 2.02 | |||||
| Horizon | 55 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 6.98 | 7 | 0.94 | |||
| Spydus | 37 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 6.97 | 7 | 0.00 | |||
| VERSO | 76 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 23 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 6.96 | 7 | 0.46 | ||
| Symphony | 232 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 27 | 71 | 64 | 35 | 7 | 6.94 | 7 | 0.26 |
| LibraryWorld | 18 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6.56 | 7 | 1.18 | ||||
| Destiny | 61 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 6.39 | 7 | 1.02 | ||
| BOOK-IT | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6.25 | 7 | 1.73 | |||||
| Sierra | 168 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 19 | 26 | 49 | 29 | 11 | 7 | 6.08 | 7 | 0.46 |
| Millennium | 17 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4.82 | 5 | 1.46 | |
| None | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 4.82 | 5 | 2.71 | ||||
| Amlib | 14 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4.79 | 5 | 0.53 | |||
| All Responses | 1516 | 13 | 15 | 32 | 31 | 61 | 92 | 189 | 374 | 386 | 323 | 8 | 7.01 | 7 | 0.15 |
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All Public Libraries: Overall ILS functionality (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How complete is the functionality of this ILS relative to the needs of this library? (Library Type: Public) (2016)
| ILS Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Apollo | 103 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 31 | 60 | 9 | 8.33 | 9 | 0.89 | |||
| Atriuum | 89 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 32 | 28 | 8 | 7.70 | 8 | 0.85 | ||
| Evergreen -- Independent | 27 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 7.52 | 8 | 1.73 | |||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 75 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 31 | 13 | 8 | 7.47 | 8 | 0.92 | |||
| Polaris | 179 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 49 | 60 | 35 | 8 | 7.39 | 8 | 0.37 | ||
| Absys.Net | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 7.36 | 8 | 2.71 | |||||
| Library.Solution | 65 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 23 | 12 | 8 | 7.34 | 8 | 0.99 | |||
| Axiell Aurora | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 7.25 | 7 | 2.02 | |||||||
| Koha -- Independent | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 7.18 | 7 | 2.11 | |||||
| Spydus | 37 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 7.16 | 7 | 0.66 | |||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 51 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 7.12 | 7 | 1.12 | |||
| V-smart | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7.00 | 7 | 1.90 | |||||
| VERSO | 75 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 32 | 7 | 8 | 7.00 | 8 | 0.46 | ||
| Symphony | 232 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 74 | 57 | 36 | 7 | 6.91 | 7 | 0.46 |
| Koha -- LibLime | 12 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 6.67 | 7 | 2.02 | |||||
| Horizon | 56 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 6.66 | 7 | 0.94 | ||
| Sierra | 168 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 27 | 49 | 37 | 14 | 7 | 6.44 | 7 | 0.46 |
| LibraryWorld | 18 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6.28 | 6 | 1.18 | |||
| BOOK-IT | 12 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6.25 | 6 | 1.73 | |||||
| Destiny | 60 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 6.20 | 7 | 1.03 | |
| Millennium | 17 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4.82 | 5 | 1.46 | |
| Amlib | 13 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4.54 | 4 | 0.55 | ||
| None | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4.50 | 5 | 2.85 | ||||||
| All Responses | 1513 | 8 | 13 | 28 | 32 | 67 | 107 | 179 | 384 | 409 | 286 | 8 | 6.99 | 7 | 0.13 |
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All Public Libraries: Overall ILS Support (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is this library with this company's customer support services? (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS Support | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| OPALS | 215 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 28 | 174 | 9 | 8.63 | 9 | 0.61 | |||
| Apollo | 102 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 80 | 9 | 8.47 | 9 | 0.89 | ||
| Atriuum | 99 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 26 | 52 | 9 | 8.08 | 9 | 0.70 | |||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 121 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 41 | 52 | 9 | 7.90 | 8 | 0.82 | ||
| Mandarin Oasis | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 7.80 | 9 | 2.85 | |||||
| Evergreen -- Independent | 33 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 9 | 7.73 | 9 | 1.57 | |||
| ResourceMate | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 7.64 | 9 | 2.71 | |||||
| VERSO | 87 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 32 | 26 | 8 | 7.62 | 8 | 0.32 | |||
| Library.Solution | 92 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 19 | 39 | 9 | 7.58 | 8 | 0.73 | ||
| Destiny | 594 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 22 | 28 | 32 | 92 | 164 | 231 | 9 | 7.57 | 8 | 0.33 |
| Alexandria | 20 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 7.55 | 8 | 1.57 | |||||
| EOS.Web | 32 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 7.53 | 8 | 1.59 | |||
| Horizon | 96 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 27 | 24 | 8 | 7.21 | 8 | 0.71 | |
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 68 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 7.13 | 8 | 0.61 | ||
| Symphony | 418 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 29 | 44 | 91 | 111 | 103 | 8 | 7.11 | 8 | 0.39 |
| WorldShare Management Services | 133 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 29 | 43 | 24 | 8 | 6.99 | 8 | 0.69 |
| Polaris | 212 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 18 | 37 | 41 | 47 | 48 | 9 | 6.96 | 7 | 0.55 |
| Libero | 12 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6.92 | 7 | 1.73 | |||||
| Axiell Aurora | 12 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 6.75 | 7 | 1.44 | ||||||
| Koha -- Independent | 68 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 8 | 6.63 | 7 | 1.09 |
| V-smart | 12 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6.58 | 6 | 1.73 | |||||
| Koha -- LibLime | 29 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 6.48 | 7 | 0.93 | |||
| Spydus | 44 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 6.45 | 7 | 0.00 | |
| Alma | 156 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 26 | 46 | 32 | 11 | 7 | 6.27 | 7 | 0.24 |
| Virtua | 20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 6.25 | 7 | 1.57 | |
| BOOK-IT | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6.23 | 7 | 2.22 | ||||
| ALEPH 500 | 127 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 22 | 32 | 23 | 12 | 7 | 6.20 | 7 | 0.80 |
| Absys.Net | 16 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6.06 | 6 | 1.75 | |||||
| Voyager | 112 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 22 | 26 | 9 | 8 | 6.03 | 7 | 0.38 |
| Alto | 17 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5.88 | 7 | 1.46 | ||
| LibraryWorld | 26 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5.81 | 6 | 0.78 | |
| Sierra | 426 | 11 | 18 | 34 | 35 | 43 | 67 | 65 | 90 | 45 | 18 | 7 | 5.26 | 6 | 0.19 |
| Amlib | 14 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5.21 | 6 | 1.07 | |||
| None | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 5.00 | 9 | 2.85 | |||||||
| Millennium | 143 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 18 | 13 | 24 | 20 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 4.59 | 5 | 0.67 |
| All Responses | 3878 | 58 | 67 | 92 | 131 | 192 | 317 | 403 | 673 | 849 | 1096 | 9 | 6.91 | 8 | 0.08 |
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Academic Libraries
Large Academic Libraries: General ILS satisfaction (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is the library with your current Integrated Library System (ILS)? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize > '1000001') (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Alma | 45 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 6.69 | 7 | 1.04 | |||
| Symphony | 22 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 6.45 | 7 | 1.71 | |||
| ALEPH 500 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6.43 | 6 | 1.28 | |||
| Sierra | 43 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 6.33 | 6 | 0.91 | |||||
| Voyager | 26 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6.08 | 6 | 1.18 | ||||
| Millennium | 21 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4.33 | 4 | 1.31 | ||||
| All Responses | 215 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 31 | 56 | 49 | 41 | 8 | 6 | 6.19 | 6 | 0.55 |
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Large Academic Libraries: Overall ILS functionality (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How complete is the functionality of this ILS relative to the needs of this library? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize > '1000001') (2016)
| ILS Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Alma | 45 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 6.73 | 7 | 1.19 | |||
| Symphony | 22 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6.27 | 7 | 1.49 | |||
| Sierra | 43 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 6.16 | 6 | 0.91 | |||
| ALEPH 500 | 30 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6.07 | 6 | 1.28 | |||
| Voyager | 26 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5.38 | 6 | 1.18 | |||
| Millennium | 21 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3.76 | 4 | 1.31 | |||
| All Responses | 215 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 17 | 29 | 41 | 52 | 36 | 10 | 7 | 5.93 | 6 | 0.48 |
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Large Academic Libraries: Effectiveness for print resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's print resources? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize > '1000001') (2016)
| Print Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| ALEPH 500 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7.67 | 8 | 1.46 | |||||
| Symphony | 22 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 7.64 | 8 | 1.71 | |||||
| Sierra | 43 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 18 | 7 | 8 | 7.56 | 8 | 1.07 | |||||
| Voyager | 26 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 7.19 | 7 | 1.37 | ||||
| Alma | 45 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 6.93 | 7 | 1.19 | |||
| Millennium | 21 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 6.90 | 7 | 1.96 | ||||
| All Responses | 215 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 23 | 66 | 75 | 31 | 8 | 7.29 | 7 | 0.55 | ||
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Large Academic Libraries: Effectiveness for electronic resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's electronic resources? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize > '1000001') (2016)
| Electronic Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Alma | 45 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 6.76 | 7 | 0.75 | |||
| Sierra | 43 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5.60 | 6 | 0.91 | |
| Symphony | 22 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5.50 | 6 | 1.28 | |
| Voyager | 26 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3.77 | 3 | 0.39 | ||
| ALEPH 500 | 30 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3.57 | 4 | 1.10 | |
| Millennium | 21 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.52 | 2 | 0.65 | |||
| All Responses | 215 | 10 | 13 | 22 | 23 | 21 | 27 | 37 | 30 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 4.85 | 5 | 0.41 |
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Large Academic Libraries: Satisfaction with customer support (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is this library with this company's customer support services? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize > '1000001') (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS Support | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| ALEPH 500 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7.13 | 7 | 1.28 | ||||
| Symphony | 22 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 6.73 | 7 | 1.71 | |||
| Voyager | 26 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 6.62 | 7 | 1.18 | ||||
| Alma | 45 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 6.49 | 7 | 1.04 | |
| Sierra | 43 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 5.63 | 6 | 0.76 | |||
| Millennium | 21 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3.38 | 3 | 1.09 | ||
| All Responses | 215 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 33 | 37 | 47 | 46 | 15 | 7 | 6.11 | 7 | 0.55 |
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Large Academic Libraries: Company loyalty (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How likely is it that this library will purchase its next ILS from this company? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize > '1000001') (2016)
| Loyalty to Company Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Alma | 45 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 7.24 | 8 | 0.60 | ||||
| Voyager | 26 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6.92 | 7 | 1.37 | |||
| ALEPH 500 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 6.77 | 8 | 1.28 | ||
| Symphony | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 6.24 | 7 | 1.75 | |
| Sierra | 43 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 5.30 | 6 | 0.30 |
| Millennium | 21 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4.19 | 4 | 1.53 | ||
| All Responses | 214 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 32 | 19 | 37 | 38 | 40 | 9 | 6.17 | 7 | 0.55 |
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Medium-sized Academic Libraries: General ILS Satisfaction (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is the library with your current Integrated Library System (ILS)? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize > '200000') (CollectionSize < '1000001') (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| WorldShare Management Services | 42 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 6.86 | 7 | 1.23 | ||
| Alma | 58 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 6.66 | 7 | 1.05 | |||
| Symphony | 40 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 6.33 | 7 | 1.42 | |
| Sierra | 77 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 26 | 16 | 1 | 7 | 6.06 | 7 | 0.46 | ||
| ALEPH 500 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5.97 | 6 | 1.00 | ||
| Millennium | 42 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4.95 | 5 | 1.08 |
| Voyager | 31 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4.71 | 5 | 0.18 |
| All Responses | 389 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 27 | 54 | 55 | 110 | 73 | 27 | 7 | 6.15 | 7 | 0.41 |
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Medium-sized Academic Libraries: Overall ILS functionality (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How complete is the functionality of this ILS relative to the needs of this library? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize > '200000') (CollectionSize < '1000001') (2016)
| ILS Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Alma | 58 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 23 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 6.90 | 7 | 0.92 | ||
| WorldShare Management Services | 43 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 6.47 | 7 | 1.37 | ||
| Symphony | 40 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 8 | 6.42 | 7 | 1.26 | |
| Sierra | 76 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 6.26 | 7 | 0.57 | ||
| ALEPH 500 | 36 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5.83 | 6 | 1.00 | ||
| Millennium | 42 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5.21 | 5 | 1.08 |
| Voyager | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 4.77 | 5 | 0.18 | |
| All Responses | 388 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 25 | 30 | 42 | 58 | 107 | 69 | 33 | 7 | 6.15 | 7 | 0.46 |
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Medium-sized Academic Libraries: Effectiveness for print resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's print resources? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize > '200000') (CollectionSize < '1000001') (2016)
| Print Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| ALEPH 500 | 35 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 7.31 | 8 | 1.01 | ||||
| Sierra | 77 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 7.26 | 8 | 0.80 | |||
| WorldShare Management Services | 43 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 7.23 | 8 | 0.76 | |||
| Symphony | 39 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 7.18 | 7 | 1.44 | |||
| Alma | 58 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 6.88 | 7 | 1.18 | |||
| Millennium | 42 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 6.83 | 7 | 1.08 | |||
| Voyager | 31 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 6.39 | 7 | 0.72 | ||
| All Responses | 388 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 19 | 54 | 104 | 121 | 62 | 8 | 7.13 | 7 | 0.25 | |
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Medium-sized Academic Libraries: Effectiveness for electronic resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's electronic resources? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize > '200000') (CollectionSize < '1000001') (2016)
| Electronic Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Alma | 57 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 19 | 5 | 8 | 7.04 | 7 | 1.19 | |||
| WorldShare Management Services | 43 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 6.58 | 7 | 1.07 | |
| Sierra | 77 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 5.18 | 6 | 0.34 |
| Symphony | 40 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4.83 | 5 | 1.26 |
| Millennium | 42 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4.17 | 4 | 0.00 |
| ALEPH 500 | 36 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3.72 | 4 | 1.00 |
| Voyager | 31 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3.10 | 3 | 0.00 | ||
| All Responses | 388 | 20 | 25 | 38 | 25 | 37 | 40 | 62 | 60 | 60 | 21 | 6 | 5.12 | 6 | 0.36 |
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Medium-sized Academic Libraries: Satisfaction with customer support (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is this library with this company's customer support services? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize > '200000') (CollectionSize < '1000001') (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS Support | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Symphony | 40 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 7.05 | 8 | 1.42 | ||
| WorldShare Management Services | 43 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 6.95 | 7 | 1.22 | ||
| Alma | 57 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 6.39 | 7 | 0.93 | |||
| ALEPH 500 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 6.11 | 7 | 1.00 | ||
| Voyager | 30 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 5.30 | 6 | 0.18 |
| Sierra | 77 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 5.03 | 6 | 0.68 |
| Millennium | 41 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4.20 | 4 | 0.78 | |
| All Responses | 386 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 25 | 30 | 42 | 58 | 81 | 75 | 38 | 7 | 5.97 | 7 | 0.41 |
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Medium-sized Academic Libraries: Company loyalty (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How likely is it that this library will purchase its next ILS from this company? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize > '200000') (CollectionSize < '1000001') (2016)
| Loyalty to Company Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Alma | 58 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 7.10 | 7 | 1.18 | |||
| WorldShare Management Services | 43 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 7.09 | 8 | 1.22 | |
| ALEPH 500 | 35 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6.63 | 6 | 1.01 | |||
| Voyager | 30 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6.00 | 6 | 0.73 | ||
| Symphony | 39 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 5.85 | 7 | 1.44 |
| Sierra | 75 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 5.08 | 6 | 0.58 |
| Millennium | 41 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4.71 | 5 | 0.16 |
| All Responses | 383 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 15 | 31 | 39 | 45 | 66 | 60 | 73 | 9 | 5.97 | 7 | 0.41 |
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Smaller Academic Libraries: General ILS Satisfaction (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is the library with your current Integrated Library System (ILS)? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize < '200001') (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Koha -- Independent | 26 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 7.88 | 8 | 1.77 | |||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 27 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 7.74 | 8 | 1.73 | ||||
| Polaris | 14 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 7.21 | 8 | 2.14 | |||||
| WorldShare Management Services | 51 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 6.78 | 7 | 0.84 | ||
| Horizon | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6.77 | 7 | 1.94 | |||
| Sierra | 72 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 30 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 6.63 | 7 | 0.59 | ||
| Alma | 30 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 6.37 | 7 | 0.73 | |
| Symphony | 68 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 6.24 | 7 | 0.73 | |
| VERSO | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6.18 | 7 | 1.21 | ||||
| Voyager | 33 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5.55 | 6 | 1.04 | |
| ALEPH 500 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5.32 | 6 | 1.70 |
| Millennium | 40 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5.28 | 5 | 0.79 | |
| All Responses | 523 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 32 | 47 | 84 | 128 | 110 | 66 | 7 | 6.40 | 7 | 0.22 |
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Smaller Academic Libraries: Overall ILS functionality (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How complete is the functionality of this ILS relative to the needs of this library? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize < '200001') (2016)
| ILS Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Koha -- Independent | 26 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 7.50 | 8 | 1.77 | ||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 27 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 7.37 | 8 | 1.73 | ||||
| Horizon | 13 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 7.08 | 7 | 1.94 | |||||
| Polaris | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6.80 | 7 | 1.55 | ||||
| WorldShare Management Services | 50 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 6.78 | 7 | 0.99 | ||
| Sierra | 71 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 6 | 8 | 6.73 | 7 | 0.95 | ||
| Symphony | 68 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 6.60 | 7 | 1.09 | ||
| Alma | 30 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 6.53 | 7 | 0.55 | ||
| VERSO | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6.00 | 6 | 1.21 | ||||
| Millennium | 40 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 5.78 | 6 | 0.79 | ||
| Voyager | 33 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 5.64 | 6 | 1.39 | |
| ALEPH 500 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5.21 | 6 | 1.32 | |
| All Responses | 522 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 29 | 35 | 55 | 63 | 133 | 127 | 56 | 7 | 6.46 | 7 | 0.31 |
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Smaller Academic Libraries: Effectiveness for print resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's print resources? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize < '200001') (2016)
| Print Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Koha -- Independent | 26 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 8.15 | 9 | 1.77 | |||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 27 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 7.96 | 8 | 1.73 | ||||||
| Polaris | 14 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 7.79 | 8 | 2.14 | ||||||
| Horizon | 13 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 7.62 | 8 | 1.94 | ||||||
| Sierra | 71 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 35 | 14 | 8 | 7.55 | 8 | 0.00 | ||
| WorldShare Management Services | 51 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 7 | 8 | 7.35 | 8 | 1.12 | |||||
| Symphony | 67 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 15 | 8 | 7.16 | 8 | 1.10 | ||
| Millennium | 40 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 6.97 | 7 | 0.95 | ||||
| Alma | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 6.90 | 8 | 0.91 | |||
| VERSO | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6.45 | 7 | 1.81 | |||||
| Voyager | 33 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6.36 | 7 | 1.39 | |
| ALEPH 500 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6.32 | 7 | 1.70 | |||
| All Responses | 520 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 34 | 56 | 108 | 169 | 112 | 8 | 7.20 | 8 | 0.00 |
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Smaller Academic Libraries: Effectiveness for electronic resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's electronic resources? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize < '200001') (2016)
| Electronic Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| WorldShare Management Services | 50 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 8 | 6.58 | 7 | 0.99 | |
| Alma | 29 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 6.48 | 7 | 0.74 | |
| Koha -- Independent | 26 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 6.46 | 7 | 1.77 | |||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 27 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 5.81 | 7 | 1.73 | |
| Horizon | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5.50 | 7 | 0.87 | |||
| Sierra | 69 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 5.46 | 6 | 0.48 |
| Symphony | 67 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 5.07 | 5 | 0.98 |
| Polaris | 15 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 4.93 | 7 | 0.52 | ||||
| Millennium | 39 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4.67 | 5 | 0.80 | |
| VERSO | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4.20 | 4 | 1.90 | ||||
| Voyager | 32 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3.47 | 3 | 1.06 | |
| ALEPH 500 | 27 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3.37 | 3 | 1.35 | |
| All Responses | 512 | 27 | 24 | 44 | 37 | 45 | 80 | 55 | 87 | 88 | 25 | 8 | 5.22 | 5 | 0.18 |
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Smaller Academic Libraries: Satisfaction with customer support (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is this library with this company's customer support services? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize < '200001') (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS Support | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Horizon | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 7.85 | 8 | 2.22 | |||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 27 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 7.81 | 8 | 1.73 | ||||
| Koha -- Independent | 25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 7.40 | 8 | 1.80 | |||
| WorldShare Management Services | 51 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 10 | 8 | 7.24 | 8 | 0.98 | |||
| VERSO | 11 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 6.82 | 8 | 1.51 | |||||
| Symphony | 67 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 6.78 | 7 | 0.86 | |
| Polaris | 15 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 6.73 | 7 | 1.55 | |||||
| Alma | 30 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6.03 | 7 | 0.55 | |
| Sierra | 71 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 6.03 | 7 | 0.47 |
| Voyager | 30 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 5.83 | 6 | 0.73 |
| ALEPH 500 | 26 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5.00 | 6 | 1.77 | |
| Millennium | 40 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4.72 | 5 | 0.79 |
| All Responses | 513 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 26 | 34 | 56 | 50 | 90 | 120 | 97 | 8 | 6.43 | 7 | 0.18 |
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Smaller Academic Libraries: Company loyalty (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How likely is it that this library will purchase its next ILS from this company? (Library Type: Academic) (CollectionSize < '200001') (2016)
| Loyalty to Company Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 26 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 8.04 | 9 | 1.77 | |||||
| Horizon | 13 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 7.31 | 8 | 1.94 | |||||
| Polaris | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 7.31 | 8 | 1.94 | ||||
| WorldShare Management Services | 51 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 7.12 | 8 | 1.12 | ||
| ALEPH 500 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6.70 | 8 | 1.73 | ||
| Koha -- Independent | 21 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 6.62 | 8 | 1.96 | ||||
| Alma | 28 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6.29 | 7 | 0.57 | ||
| Voyager | 33 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6.27 | 7 | 0.70 | ||
| Symphony | 67 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 5.97 | 7 | 1.10 |
| Sierra | 71 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 5.94 | 7 | 0.59 |
| VERSO | 11 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 5.64 | 7 | 1.51 | |||||
| Millennium | 40 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4.15 | 4 | 0.79 | |
| All Responses | 510 | 30 | 23 | 13 | 21 | 35 | 49 | 37 | 98 | 89 | 115 | 9 | 6.18 | 7 | 0.22 |
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All Academic Libraries: General ILS Satisfaction (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is the library with your current Integrated Library System (ILS)? (Library Type: Academic) (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| OPALS | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 8.50 | 9 | 2.60 | |||||||
| Koha -- Independent | 38 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 7.82 | 8 | 1.46 | |||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 28 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 7.75 | 8 | 1.70 | ||||
| Polaris | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 7.13 | 8 | 2.00 | ||||
| Evergreen -- Equinox Software | 10 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6.80 | 7 | 1.90 | |||||
| WorldShare Management Services | 101 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 27 | 28 | 10 | 8 | 6.73 | 7 | 0.80 |
| Virtua | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 6.69 | 7 | 2.22 | ||||
| Alma | 134 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 24 | 45 | 31 | 9 | 7 | 6.61 | 7 | 0.35 | |
| Sierra | 192 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 37 | 67 | 38 | 5 | 7 | 6.33 | 7 | 0.36 |
| Horizon | 23 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6.30 | 7 | 1.46 | |||
| Symphony | 131 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 18 | 34 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 6.29 | 7 | 0.52 |
| Library.Solution | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6.25 | 8 | 2.60 | |||
| VERSO | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6.18 | 7 | 1.21 | ||||
| Alto | 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6.00 | 6 | 1.90 | |||||
| ALEPH 500 | 95 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 28 | 22 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5.92 | 6 | 0.92 |
| Voyager | 90 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 5.41 | 6 | 0.11 |
| Millennium | 103 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 19 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 4.95 | 5 | 0.59 |
| All Responses | 1139 | 15 | 15 | 33 | 51 | 76 | 134 | 195 | 288 | 227 | 105 | 7 | 6.28 | 7 | 0.24 |
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All Academic Libraries: General ILS Functionality (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How complete is the functionality of this ILS relative to the needs of this library? (Library Type: Academic) (2016)
| ILS Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| OPALS | 12 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 8.25 | 9 | 2.60 | ||||||
| Koha -- Independent | 38 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 7.47 | 8 | 1.46 | ||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 28 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 7.36 | 8 | 1.70 | ||||
| Virtua | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6.77 | 7 | 2.50 | ||||
| Alma | 134 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 47 | 38 | 9 | 7 | 6.77 | 7 | 0.26 |
| Polaris | 17 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6.71 | 7 | 1.46 | ||||
| Library.Solution | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 6.67 | 8 | 2.31 | |||||
| WorldShare Management Services | 101 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 34 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 6.55 | 7 | 0.90 |
| Symphony | 131 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 37 | 34 | 12 | 7 | 6.48 | 7 | 0.79 | |
| Sierra | 190 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 29 | 32 | 47 | 44 | 14 | 7 | 6.42 | 7 | 0.44 | |
| Horizon | 23 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 6.09 | 7 | 1.46 | |||
| VERSO | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6.00 | 6 | 1.21 | ||||
| ALEPH 500 | 95 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 23 | 20 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 5.68 | 6 | 0.72 | |
| Voyager | 89 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 5.27 | 6 | 0.11 |
| Millennium | 103 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 5.14 | 5 | 0.59 |
| Alto | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5.10 | 6 | 0.95 | ||||
| All Responses | 1137 | 6 | 14 | 42 | 72 | 83 | 127 | 163 | 292 | 235 | 103 | 7 | 6.25 | 7 | 0.27 |
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All Academic Libraries: Effectiveness in managing print resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's print resources? (Library Type: Academic) (2016)
| Print Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| OPALS | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 8.50 | 9 | 2.60 | ||||||
| Koha -- Independent | 38 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 9 | 8.00 | 8 | 1.46 | |||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 28 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 7.96 | 8 | 1.70 | ||||||
| Virtua | 13 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 7.85 | 8 | 2.50 | ||||||
| Polaris | 16 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 7.69 | 8 | 2.00 | ||||||
| Horizon | 23 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 7.65 | 8 | 1.46 | |||||
| Sierra | 191 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 40 | 78 | 37 | 8 | 7.43 | 8 | 0.00 | ||
| Alto | 10 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7.30 | 8 | 2.21 | ||||||
| WorldShare Management Services | 102 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 26 | 37 | 14 | 8 | 7.25 | 8 | 0.50 | |||
| Symphony | 129 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 36 | 43 | 24 | 8 | 7.24 | 8 | 0.79 | |
| Library.Solution | 12 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 7.08 | 8 | 2.31 | |||||
| ALEPH 500 | 94 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 21 | 26 | 20 | 8 | 7.06 | 7 | 0.93 | |
| Alma | 134 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 23 | 39 | 39 | 14 | 7 | 6.92 | 7 | 0.43 | |
| Millennium | 103 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 30 | 27 | 13 | 7 | 6.90 | 7 | 0.89 | |||
| Voyager | 90 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 24 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 6.61 | 7 | 0.42 | |
| VERSO | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6.45 | 7 | 1.81 | |||||
| All Responses | 1135 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 19 | 38 | 67 | 135 | 279 | 368 | 210 | 8 | 7.19 | 8 | 0.15 |
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All Academic Libraries: Effectiveness in managing electronic resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's electronic resources? (Library Type: Academic) (2016)
| Electronic Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| OPALS | 11 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 7.36 | 8 | 2.11 | ||||||
| Alma | 132 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 27 | 33 | 39 | 14 | 8 | 6.83 | 7 | 0.35 | |
| WorldShare Management Services | 101 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 24 | 30 | 8 | 8 | 6.50 | 7 | 0.70 |
| Koha -- Independent | 38 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 6.13 | 7 | 1.46 | ||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 28 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 5.61 | 7 | 1.70 | |
| Sierra | 189 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 36 | 28 | 42 | 25 | 4 | 7 | 5.38 | 6 | 0.29 |
| Library.Solution | 12 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5.33 | 6 | 2.02 | ||||
| Symphony | 130 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 18 | 26 | 9 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5.06 | 5 | 0.70 |
| Polaris | 17 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 5.00 | 7 | 0.49 | |||
| Horizon | 22 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4.45 | 4 | 0.64 |
| Alto | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4.40 | 5 | 0.95 | ||||
| Virtua | 13 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4.23 | 4 | 0.83 | |||
| VERSO | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4.20 | 4 | 1.90 | ||||
| Millennium | 102 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4.02 | 4 | 0.30 |
| ALEPH 500 | 94 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3.54 | 3 | 0.72 |
| Voyager | 89 | 8 | 8 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3.43 | 3 | 0.00 |
| All Responses | 1126 | 57 | 63 | 106 | 86 | 104 | 149 | 154 | 178 | 174 | 55 | 7 | 5.11 | 5 | 0.21 |
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All Academic Libraries: Satisfaction with ILS support (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is this library with this company's customer support services? (Library Type: Academic) (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS Support | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| OPALS | 12 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 8.83 | 9 | 2.60 | ||||||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 28 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 7.86 | 8 | 1.70 | ||||
| WorldShare Management Services | 102 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 36 | 17 | 8 | 7.10 | 8 | 0.79 | |
| Library.Solution | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 7.00 | 7 | 2.41 | ||||
| Koha -- Independent | 36 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 6.97 | 8 | 1.50 | |
| Horizon | 22 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6.91 | 8 | 1.71 | |
| Symphony | 130 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 40 | 26 | 8 | 6.85 | 8 | 0.61 | |
| VERSO | 11 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 6.82 | 8 | 1.51 | |||||
| Polaris | 17 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 6.53 | 7 | 1.46 | ||||
| Alto | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6.50 | 7 | 1.90 | ||||
| Alma | 133 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 24 | 37 | 29 | 10 | 7 | 6.35 | 7 | 0.26 |
| Virtua | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 6.15 | 7 | 1.94 | |||
| ALEPH 500 | 93 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 25 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 6.11 | 7 | 0.93 |
| Voyager | 86 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 20 | 5 | 8 | 5.88 | 6 | 0.11 |
| Sierra | 191 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 30 | 27 | 50 | 24 | 8 | 7 | 5.53 | 6 | 0.29 |
| Millennium | 102 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4.24 | 4 | 0.50 |
| All Responses | 1125 | 23 | 33 | 40 | 59 | 76 | 132 | 147 | 220 | 241 | 154 | 8 | 6.21 | 7 | 0.24 |
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All Academic Libraries: Company Loyalty (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How likely is it that this library will purchase its next ILS from this company? (Library Type: Academic) (2016)
| Loyalty to Company Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| OPALS | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 8.64 | 9 | 2.71 | |||||||
| Koha -- ByWater Solutions | 27 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 8.04 | 8 | 1.73 | |||||
| WorldShare Management Services | 102 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 28 | 32 | 9 | 7.03 | 8 | 0.79 |
| Alma | 132 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 14 | 29 | 25 | 36 | 9 | 6.99 | 7 | 0.26 | |
| Polaris | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 6.80 | 8 | 1.81 | |||
| ALEPH 500 | 93 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 17 | 26 | 9 | 6.69 | 7 | 0.93 | |
| Koha -- Independent | 32 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 6.41 | 8 | 1.59 | |||
| Voyager | 89 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 24 | 9 | 17 | 7 | 6.37 | 7 | 0.42 | |
| Library.Solution | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 6.17 | 8 | 2.60 | ||||
| Virtua | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6.00 | 7 | 2.50 | ||
| Symphony | 128 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 27 | 21 | 25 | 7 | 5.96 | 7 | 0.80 |
| Horizon | 23 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 5.96 | 7 | 1.46 | |||
| Alto | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5.80 | 7 | 2.21 | ||||
| VERSO | 11 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 5.64 | 7 | 1.51 | |||||
| Sierra | 189 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 24 | 25 | 39 | 25 | 16 | 7 | 5.46 | 6 | 0.36 |
| Millennium | 102 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 4.38 | 4 | 0.69 |
| All Responses | 1118 | 55 | 47 | 39 | 47 | 85 | 120 | 102 | 203 | 187 | 233 | 9 | 6.11 | 7 | 0.24 |
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School Libraries
School Libraries: Overall ILS Satisfaction (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How satisfied is the library with your current Integrated Library System (ILS)? (Library Type: School) (2016)
| Satisfaction Score for ILS | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| OPALS | 148 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 122 | 9 | 8.65 | 9 | 0.74 | |||
| Destiny | 530 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 16 | 34 | 118 | 183 | 162 | 8 | 7.71 | 8 | 0.26 | |
| Symphony | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7.60 | 7 | 2.07 | |||||||
| Library.Solution | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 7.58 | 8 | 2.31 | |||||
| All Responses | 770 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 50 | 140 | 226 | 306 | 9 | 7.83 | 8 | 0.04 | |
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School Libraries: General ILS Functionality (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How complete is the functionality of this ILS relative to the needs of this library? (Library Type: School) (2016)
| ILS Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| OPALS | 148 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 119 | 9 | 8.65 | 9 | 0.66 | ||||
| Destiny | 521 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 47 | 102 | 192 | 143 | 8 | 7.62 | 8 | 0.26 | |
| Symphony | 15 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 7.33 | 7 | 1.81 | ||||||
| Library.Solution | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7.17 | 8 | 2.31 | ||||
| All Responses | 761 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 25 | 63 | 125 | 237 | 282 | 9 | 7.75 | 8 | 0.11 | |
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School Libraries: Effectiveness for print resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's print resources? (Library Type: School) (2016)
| Print Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| OPALS | 148 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 125 | 9 | 8.70 | 9 | 0.74 | ||||
| Symphony | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 8.07 | 8 | 2.07 | |||||||
| Destiny | 527 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 19 | 72 | 192 | 218 | 9 | 8.02 | 8 | 0.35 | ||
| Library.Solution | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 7.67 | 8 | 2.31 | |||||
| All Responses | 766 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 30 | 98 | 229 | 374 | 9 | 8.11 | 8 | 0.18 | ||
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School Libraries: Effectiveness for electronic resources (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How effective is this product in managing your library's electronic resources? (Library Type: School) (2016)
| Electronic Functionality Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| OPALS | 133 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 34 | 57 | 32 | 8 | 7.65 | 8 | 0.69 | ||
| Destiny | 498 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 57 | 64 | 93 | 111 | 120 | 9 | 6.91 | 7 | 0.27 |
| Symphony | 15 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6.60 | 7 | 1.81 | ||||
| Library.Solution | 12 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6.33 | 7 | 2.02 | |||||
| All Responses | 722 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 30 | 75 | 80 | 144 | 188 | 166 | 8 | 7.00 | 7 | 0.04 |
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School Libraries: Company Loyalty (2016)
Statistics related to the question: How likely is it that this library will purchase its next ILS from this company? (Library Type: School) (2016)
| Loyalty to Company Score | Response Distribution | Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Responses | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Mode | Mean | Median | Std Dev |
| OPALS | 147 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 26 | 112 | 9 | 8.58 | 9 | 0.74 | ||||
| Unknown | 17 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 7.88 | 8 | 1.70 | ||||||
| Library.Solution | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 7.60 | 9 | 2.53 | ||||||
| Destiny | 509 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 32 | 34 | 65 | 129 | 204 | 9 | 7.48 | 8 | 0.27 |
| Symphony | 13 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 7.38 | 8 | 2.50 | |||||
| All Responses | 742 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 34 | 36 | 41 | 84 | 174 | 345 | 9 | 7.64 | 8 | 0.26 |
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An interactive version of the statistical reports, is available which includes the ability to view the responses for each of the ILS products, along with the redacted comments.
ILS Turnover Reports
Another set of reports provide information on the ILS products that were selected during 2016 by libraries registered in libraries.org. [Note: these numbers are not comprehensive.]
The ILS Turn-over report counts and lists the automation systems recorded as selected or installed in 2016 with a breakdown of the previous systems displaced.
The Reverse ILS Turn-over report. counts and lists the automation systems recorded as replaced in 2016 with a breakdown of the new systems that were selected
Details about The Survey
The survey instrument included five numerical ratings, three yes/no responses, and two short response fields, and a text field for general comments. The numeric rating fields allow responses from 0 through 9. Each scale was labeled to indicate the meaning of the numeric selection.
Four of the numeric questions probe at the level of satisfaction with and loyalty to the company or organization that provides its current automation system:
- How satisfied is the library with your current Integrated Library System?
- How complete is the functionality of this ILS relative to the needs of this library?
- How satisfied is the library overall with the company from which you purchased your current ILS?
- Has the customer support for this ILS gotten better or gotten worse in the last year?
- How satisfied is this library with this company’s customer support services?
- How likely is it that this library will purchase its next ILS from this company?
A yes/no question asks whether the library is considering migrating to a new ILS and a fill-in text field provides the opportunity to provide specific systems under consideration. Another yes/no question asks whether the automation system currently in use was installed on schedule.
Given the recent interest in new search interfaces, a yes/no question asks “Is the library currently considering a search interface for its collection that is separate from the ILS?” and a fill-in form to indicate products under consideration.
The survey includes two questions that aim to gauge interest in open source ILS, a numerical rating that asks “How likely is it that this library would consider implementing and open source ILS?” and a fill-in text field for indicating products under consideration.
The survey concludes with a text box inviting comments.
View the survey. (This version of the survey does not accept or record response data.)
In order to correlate the responses with particular automation systems and companies, the survey links to entries in the libraries.org directory of libraries. Each entry in libraries.org indicates the automation system currently in use as well as data on the type of library, location, collection size, and other factors that might be of potential interest. In order to fill out the survey, the responder had first to find their library in libraries.org and then press a button that launched the response form. Some potential respondents indicated that found this process complex.
The link between the libraries.org entry and the survey automatically populated fields for the library name and current automation system and provided access to other data elements about the library as needed. The report on survey response demographics, for example, relies on data from libraries.org.
A number of methods were used to solicit responses to the survey. E-mail messages were sent to library-oriented mailing lists such as WEB4LIB and PUBLIB. Invitational messages were also sent to many lists for specific automation systems and companies. Where contact information was available in libraries.org, and automated script produced e-mail messages with a direct link to the survey response form for that library.
The survey attempted to limit responses to one per library. This restriction was imposed to attempt to sway the respondents to reflect the broad perceptions of their institution rather than their personal opinions.
The survey instrument was created using the same infrastructure as the Library Technology Guides web site—a custom interface written in perl using MySQL to store the data, with ODBC as the connection layer. Access to the raw responses is controlled through a user name and password available only to the author. Scripts were written to provide public access to the survey in a way that does not expose individual responses.
In order to provide access to the comments without violating the stated agreement not to attribute individual responses to any given institution or individual, an addition field was created for “edited comments.” This field was manually populated with text selected from the “comments” text provided by the respondent. Any information that might identify the individual or library was edited out, with an ellipse indicating the removed text. Comments that only explained a response or described the circumstances of the library were not transferred to the Edited Comments field.
Statistics
To analyze the results, a few scripts were written to summarize, analyze, and present the responses.
In order to avoid making generalizations based on inadequate sample sizes, the processing scripts included a threshold variable that would only present results when the number of responses exceeded the specified value. The threshold was set to a value of 20.
For each of the survey questions that involve a numeric rating, a set of subroutines was created to calculate and display simple statistics.
- Responses indicates the number of survey responses that made a selection for this question.
- A Response Distribution array lists the number of responses for each possible value from 0-9.
- The Mode indicates the numeric response that received the most selections.
- The Mean is the average response, calculated by adding together all the responses and dividing by the Responses value, rounding to two significant decimal places.
- The Median is the middle response, calculated by placing each of the responses in a sorted array and selecting the middle value.
- The Standard Deviation was calculated by subtracting each response value from the mean, squaring the difference, summing the squares and dividing by the number of responses to determine the variance. The standard deviation is the square root of the variance.
The "survey-report-by-category.pl" script processes each of the numerical ratings, displaying each of the statistical components listed above for each product that received responses above the threshold value. This report provides a convenient way to compare the performance of each ILS product for the selected question. The report sorts the statistics for each product in descending order of the mean. The report categories available correspond to the survey questions with numerical scale responses.
The “survey-product-report.pl” script provides the results for each of the ILS products mentioned in the responses. This report also provides the statistical components for each of the numeric question. It also provides the percentage of yes responses to the two yes/no questions:
- Is this library currently considering migrating to a new ILS?
- Is this library currently considering acquiring a search interface for its collection that is separate from the ILS? The report then lists the “EditedComments” text.
[The text of this section mostly replicates what appeared in the 2007 version of this article. For for both editions of the survey I followed the same methodology for collection and and statistical analysis.]
Caveat
As noted with previous editions of the survey, libraries evaluating products should not read too much into the survey results. Individuals responding to the survey provide their subjective impressions to fairly general questions. Although the survey instructions encourage responders to consider the broader institutional perceptions, it’s usually the case that multiple opinions prevail within any given library. Although the survey attempts to provide useful information about the experiences of libraries with their current integrated library systems and the organizations that provide support, it should not be used as a definitive assessment tool.