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Quest For Continuous Improvement: Gathering Feedback And Data Through Multiple Methods To Evaluate And Improve A Library’S Discovery Tool, Jeanne M. Brown
Quest For Continuous Improvement: Gathering Feedback And Data Through Multiple Methods To Evaluate And Improve A Library’S Discovery Tool, Jeanne M. Brown
Library Faculty Presentations
Summon at UNLV
- Implemented fall 2011: a web-scale discovery tool
- Expectations for Summon
- Continuous Summon Improvement (CSI)Group
The environment
- User changes
- Library changes
- Vendor changes
- Product changes
- Complex information environment
- Change + complexity = need to assess using multiple streams of feedback
Information Literacy Opportunities Within The Discovery Tool Environment, Nancy E. Fawley, Nikki Krysak
Information Literacy Opportunities Within The Discovery Tool Environment, Nancy E. Fawley, Nikki Krysak
Library Faculty Publications
Discovery tools such as Primo, EBSCO Discovery Service, Summon, and WorldCat Local aim to make scholarly research more intuitive for students in part because of their single interface for searching across multiple platforms, including the library, fee-based databases, and unique digital collections. Discovery tools are in sync with the way many undergraduates look for information because they offer a more “Google-like” experience in contrast with previous methods of research that required first knowing which database to use, then searching each one differently according to its specifications. However, broad searches across multiple formats with different systems of controlled vocabulary force instructors …
Evaluating And Implementing Web Scale Discovery Services: Part Two, Jason Vaughan, Tamera Hanken
Evaluating And Implementing Web Scale Discovery Services: Part Two, Jason Vaughan, Tamera Hanken
Library Faculty Presentations
Part Four: Quick Tour of the Current Marketplace:
- "The Big 5"
- Similarities and differences
Part Five: It's Not All Sliced Bread:
- Shortcomings of web scale discovery
Part Six: Implementation (pre launch steps):
- Selecting and preparing implementation staff
- Preparing and communicating process/decisions with all staff
- Working with the vendor (roles, expectations, timeline)
- Workflow changes and implications (technical services)
Part Seven: Specific implementation tasks, issues, and considerations:
- Record loading and mapping (catalog content)
- Harvesting and mapping digital/local content
- Working with central index data (internal & external content)
- Web integration and customization
- Assessment and continuous improvement
Evaluating And Implementing Web Scale Discovery Services: Part One, Jason Vaughan, Tamera Hanken
Evaluating And Implementing Web Scale Discovery Services: Part One, Jason Vaughan, Tamera Hanken
Library Faculty Presentations
Preface: Before Web Scale Discovery
- A very brief overview
Part 1: What is Web Scale Discovery
- Content
- Technology
Part 2: Why is Web Scale Discovery important?
- What’s the need?
- How is it different from earlier attempts at broad discovery?
Part 3: A Framework for Evaluating Web Scale Discovery Services
- What we did at UNLV
- Other options
The Automated Retrieval System: Inexpensive And Efficient Library Storage, W. Bede Mitchell
The Automated Retrieval System: Inexpensive And Efficient Library Storage, W. Bede Mitchell
Library Faculty Presentations
Powerpoint presentation featuring photographs of an automated retrieval system utilized in the Zach S. Henderson Library in Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia.
The Complexities Of Electronic Journals, Carol Tenopir
The Complexities Of Electronic Journals, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Electronic journals are available from a variety of sources with varying formats and prices. The growth of technology has produced a range of delivery mechanisms. Variations in quality and accessibility make it impractical for libraries to replace print formats with electronic journals.