Panel Discussion
The panel discussion was new this year and gave conference goers the chance to exchange ideas and solutions. Michael Doran, Laura Guy and Elizabeth Jones sat on the panel. After spending a good deal of time in sessions on Tomcat, the new OPAC interface, I was very interested in hearing why folks had decided to move to Tomcat or why folks were planning to stick with classic WebVoyage. All of those who answered my question were either already on Tomcat or planning to move there with a future upgrade.
Reasons others migrated to Tomcat:
- Usability research went into the design of Tomcat, unlike classic Webvoyage
- ExLibris is not fixing bugs on classic, but Tomcat bugs are being fixed
- Did not require major changes on the back end, but wanted to take advantage of the visual changes on Tomcat
- Improved results page
- Tomcat allows for the use of screen readers
- Tomcat follows various Web standards
Those in the audience ranged from small academic libraries to large research libraries. Everyone in the audience who migrated to Voyager7 is using the Tomcat interface.
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