Titel: Exploring Discovery The Front Door to Your Library`s Licensed and Digitized Content
Verlag: Amer Library Assn
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0838914144
ISBN-13: 9780838914144
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Brand New

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We’re in a new age of Discovery. Not of the physical world but rather one that serves up appropriate resources for your library’s researchers, thanks to advancements in handling metadata, natural language processing, and keyword searching. For you, Discovery might be shorthand for single-index products such as Serials’ Solutions Summon, EBSCO Discovery, and OCLC’s WorldCat Discovery. Yet even those tools require adjustments to meet your institution’s specific needs. With first-hand profiles of 19 library projects, Varnum and his roster of contributors offer guidance on the complete range of discovery services, from the broad sweep of vendors’ products to the fine points of specialized holdings. Topics include:

migrating from a traditional ILS to a library services platform
creating a task list for usability testing of discovery
managing internal development requirements within the constraints of a small or mid-sized library
applying agile software methodology to a Blacklight implementation
real-world examples of usability testing, including a small liberal arts college’s implementation of VuFind
meeting the challenge of three different metadata formats
practices in the Primo community for integrating open access content into the front end
serving mobile users with an app and responsive Web design
analyzing the use of facets in search
using a single discovery tool across a library, museum, and archive; and
implementing discovery with geospatial datasets.
- Easy to dip into as needed, this comprehensive examination of discovery services will prove invaluable to IT, web development, electronic resource management, and technical services staff.

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Kenneth J. Varnum is senior program manager for discovery, delivery, and learning analytics at the University of Michigan Library. In this role, he is responsible for the library’s discovery interfaces (the “MLibrary” single search tool, ArticlesPlus, Search Tools, etc.), link resolution and content delivery interfaces, and the library’s evolving and emerging learning analytics infrastructure. Over his two decades working with public-facing technology in academic, corporate, and special libraries, he has gained a deep appreciation and understanding of the need to tailor systems and interfaces to the local user base. In addition to numerous articles and chapters, he wrote Drupal in Libraries (2012), and edited The Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know: A LITA Guide (2014) and Lorcan Dempsey's The Network Reshapes the Library (2014).

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