[Eril-l] browzine thoughts?

[Steve Oberg]

We renewed our subscription to the “regular” BrowZine just a few weeks ago; it was a new subscription for us last year. We decided to also subscribe to BrowZine web, an add-on product, in hopes that it will broaden the service’s appeal and accessibility to our users.

Our stats thus far sound like yours — not great. However, whenever we talk about or demo it, the response is quite positive. I’m not sure why that is not (yet) translating into higher numbers. It may be due to some or all of the following factors (these are purely my own opinion):

  *   It’s still a relatively new thing and our community can be slow to adopt new technologies and services
  *   I’m not sure the service will ever broadly appeal to undergrads and we are a predominantly undergrad institution
  *   Existing habits of faculty and perhaps grad students for keeping current in subject areas is probably deeply ingrained
  *   We need to take every opportunity to promote the service, and to show our users how to use it

In sum, I think it is a great service, a great idea, but it will take some time to really get traction among our users. We hope the web version will help.

Steve

Steve Oberg<http://www.wheaton.edu/Academics/Faculty/O/Steve-Oberg>
Assistant Professor of Library Science
Electronic Resources and Serials
Wheaton College (IL)
+1 (630) 752-5852

From: Amy Lynn Fry
Date: Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 10:33 AM
To: "eril-l at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>"
Subject: [Eril-l] browzine thoughts?

Anyone out there have thoughts on BrowZine? Is anyone signing up for BrowZine web?

Our use of BrowZine is not awesome. Does anyone have awesome usage or ideas about increasing usage?

We currently only have it for iOS.

Thanks,
Amy

Amy Fry
Associate Professor, Electronic Resources Coordinator
Bowling Green State University
Jerome Library
Bowling Green, OH 43403
afry at bgsu.edu<mailto:afry at bgsu.edu>
email is the best way to reach me

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