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Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, The George Washington University
Library discovery, EBSCO Discovery Service, Encore, focus groups, surveys
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Assessing Use Of Two Discovery Services At Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, Jolinda Thompson, Elaine Sullo, Laura Abate, Kathleen Lyons, Meaghan Corbett
Assessing Use Of Two Discovery Services At Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, Jolinda Thompson, Elaine Sullo, Laura Abate, Kathleen Lyons, Meaghan Corbett
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Introduction
The Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, at The George Washington University, introduced Health Information @ Himmelfarb, a custom health sciences focused implementation of EBSCO’s Discovery Service (EDS) in the fall of 2012. Less than a year later, the Library Catalog was migrated to Innovative’s Encore. With two different discovery tools delivering some overlapping content and features, librarians wanted to know more about how the two services were being used.
Methods
A Discovery Task Force completed a staff focus group and a brief demographic survey of Health Information @ Himmelfarb users in spring 2015. All library staff who search the services …