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Discovery Assessment And Improvement At An Academic Health Sciences Library: Health Information @ Himmelfarb Five Years Later, Jolinda Thompson, Elaine Sullo, Laura E. Abate, Meaghan Heselden, Kathleen Lyons
Discovery Assessment And Improvement At An Academic Health Sciences Library: Health Information @ Himmelfarb Five Years Later, Jolinda Thompson, Elaine Sullo, Laura E. Abate, Meaghan Heselden, Kathleen Lyons
Himmelfarb Library Faculty Publications
Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library was an early health sciences library adopter of web scale discovery with introduction of a customized instance of EBSCO’s Discovery Service (EDS) in 2012. After three years with EDS, the library initiated an evaluation project involving two user surveys and a library staff focus group to assess user satisfaction with the service. Resulting changes included introduction of widgets to improve access to clinical content, addition of radio buttons to the search box to make defaults easier to enable and disable, and a custom course reserves search feature. The improvements launched fall semester 2016.
Himmelfarb Library Annual Report 2016, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library
Himmelfarb Library Annual Report 2016, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library
Himmelfarb Library Annual Report
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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
Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations
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 …