E-services and MB have been working towards a relaunch of Kā Kohika, the library’s public access catalogue or ‘front end’ for Minisis, our Art and Archives database.
We would love to know what you think of the new site so far, especially if you use the existing Kā Kohika site already. Feedback, critique, suggestions or warm fuzzies are all welcome.
Have a play on the test site here:
http://kohika-dev.canterbury.ac.nz/opac_canterbury/scripts/mwimain.dll?logon&application=UNION_VIEW&language=144&file=[opac_canterbury]search.html
Just be aware that the site is still under development so not all features are working, it may go down sometimes, and the data might be a bit funny.
Please post feedback as comments here by Friday 10 May. Alternately you can email me if you don’t want to comment here joanna.condon@canterbury.ac.nz
I think it’s great there is a way to filter results to show only if they have been digitised.
If it’s possible, to be more user friendly, being able to click on the image in the list and have it open a larger version of the image would be nice. Students don’t like to have to click too much to find things.
Also wonder if the next button should take you to the next page rather than skip 10 pages (approximately).
The square tiles look really good and make it easier for students to understand what they can expect to find in the collection 🙂