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academic library systems
catalogue management strategies
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Discovery Layer
Discovery platforms
Discovery Service
Discovery tools
EBSCO Discovery Service
Education Education Education
Education Education Education Education
Education Education Education Education Education
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FAU Library
Federated Search
federated search technology
Grand Valley State University Libraries
Ill Request
information literacy integration
information retrieval evaluation
Link Resolver
Marc Record
Plan Plan Plan
Plan Plan Plan Plan
Primo Central
Seminole State
Seminole State College
Summon Discovery Tool
Traditional OPAC
usability assessment methods
Web Scale Discovery
Web Scale Discovery Service
Web Scale Discovery System
Web Scale Discovery Tools
Web Scale Management Service
web-scale discovery implementation case studies

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415706667
  • Weight: 657g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Aug 2013
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Discovery tools are now becoming more common in the academic library landscape, and more products are now available from vendors. While librarians are advocating and promoting their use by students and faculty, they are also evaluating their searching capabilities, their usefulness, and on-going maintenance requirements. This work is geared to librarians considering the implementation of a discovery tool. As a result, it addresses the selection and implementation of such a tool, its relationship to information literacy and catalog maintenance, usability testing, and assessment. Issues such as database and catalog searching and the quality of searching queries are also addressed. A comprehensive review of the literature serves as a valuable resource. Librarians will appreciate the highly practical nature of the volume as it is enriched by a number of varied case studies.

This book was published as a special triple issue of College & Undergraduate Libraries.
About
John S. Spencer is Coordinator of Reference and Chair of Public Services at Foley Center Library, Gonzaga University, USA. Christopher Millson-Martula is Director of the Library at Lynchburg College, USA.