Yo Qwidget : the Questionpoint widget at UQL

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Yo Qwidget the Questionpoint widget at UQL

• Team Karen
• Karen Borchardt and Karen Seymour

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Whats a widget?

• Widget (economics), a placeholder name for an
  object or,
• more specifically, a mechanical or other
  manufactured device
• Widget (beer), a coil-like device placed in the
  bottom of cans and bottles of beer to aid in the
  generation of froth
• Widget (comics), a character in Marvel Comics
• Widget (TV series), a 1990s animated television
  series
• nickname of the New York World Journal Tribune, a
  defunct newspaper
• Widget (video game), a 1992 NES game developed by
  Atlus Co.
• GUI widget, a component of a graphical user
  interface with which a user interacts
• Widget toolkit, a software library containing a
  collection of GUI widgets that collaborate when
  used in the construction of applications
• Web widget, a physically-inspired applet on the
  web
• Widget engine, a software system for running
  applets on the web, desktop or mobile phone

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Have you used a widget?
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The UQL Qwidget
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What it took to implement
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Challenges

• Instability
• Suitability of technology
• Users
• Staff perfectionists, pressure

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Location
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Ask a Librarian
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Statistics from weeks 1-7

• Busiest day Tuesdays
• Busiest week week 7 - 143 chats
• Slowest times 5-6, 6-7 and 7-8
• Busiest periods 12-1, 2-3 and 1-2
• Total chat requests
• for the period 823 av. 3 / hr
• Total chat and email requests 1144 av. 4/hr
• 274 inc from Aug 07 to Aug 08

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The questions

• If i am looking for a certain book on
  shelves?what do i need?i'm actually looking for
  referrences about magnetic resonance technology
  where should i start(???please )
• does this really work? Cuz its pretty cool I
  reckon
• if humans evolved from apes, why are there still
  apes?

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The Future

• Questions