Exploring discovery : the front door to your library's licensed and digitized content / edited by Kenneth J. Varnum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Varnum, Kenneth J., 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic information resource searching.

Federated searching.

Information retrieval--Computer programs.

Information retrieval.

User interfaces (Computer systems).

Libraries--Special collections--Electronic information resources.

Libraries.

Electronic information resources--Management.

Electronic information resources.

Management.

Physical Description:

xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2016.

Contents:

Part 1. Vended discovery systems

Collaborative growth towards discovery : becoming stronger through change / by Margaret Heller and Hong Ma

Approaching discovery as part of a library service platform : lessons learned / by Nathan Hosburgh

When you rent your front door : a mid-size library's experiences relying on discovery vendors / by Stephen Bollinger and Kate Silton

Exploring discovery @ Rosenberg Library : what happens when a library, a museum, and an archives get together to share a single discovery tool? / by T. Louise M. Kidder

Part 2. Custom discovery systems

Geospatial resource discovery / by Darren Hardy, Jack Reed, and Bess Sadler

Discovery on a shoestring : implementing a full-functioned discovery tool with free software and no-extra-charge metadata sources / by Julia Bauder

Agile open-source discovery : Blacklight with EBSCO Discovery Service / by Sam Popowich

Using Blacklight for archival discovery / by Adam Wead and Jennie Thomas

Creating a "magical" request and delivery experience for patrons using a Blacklight-based catalog / by Matthew Connolly, Jennifer Colt, Joanne Leary, and Melissa Wallace

Part 3. Interfaces

The bento box design pattern / by Jason Thomale, William Hicks, and Mark Phillips

One-to-many : building a single-search interface for disparate resources / by Cole Hudson and Graham Hukill

Integrating discovery to improve the user experience / by Sonya Betz and Ian Roberton

Fixing facets / by Sean Hannan, Steven Heslip, and Kristen Johannes

Size doesn't fit all : tailoring discovery through user testing / by Joseph Deodata, Khalilah Gambrell, and Eric Frierson

Content and metadata

From user stories to working code : a case study from NYU's digital collections discovery initiative / by Daniel Lovins

Regional aggregation and discovery of digital collections : the Mountain West Digital Library / by Anna Neatrour, Rebekah Cummings, and Sandra McIntyre

Open Access and discovery tools : how do Primo libraries manage green open access collections? / by François Renaville

Discovery platforms and the database of record / by Alan Manifold

Know thy metadata : metadata challenges in discovery services / by Myung-Ja K. Han and William Fletcher Weathers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780838914144

0838914144

OCLC:

939243563