Category: Discovery
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Webcast: Returning the Researcher to the Library: The Summon™ Service in Real Life
Library Journal and Serials Solutions are presenting the fourth and final session in the “Returning the Researcher to the Library” series: The Summon™ Service in Real Life. I’m one of three panelists, joining librarians from Grand Valley State University and Western Michigan University in discussing why we’re exploring the idea of Web-Scale Discovery (that appears…
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Additional observations about unified discovery services
As Grand Valley State U works towards launching Summon, Laura at Llyfrgellydd posts some additional observations about unified discovery services. I think all her points are valid; well worth the 2-3 minutes it’ll take you to read.
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Tune In September 2: The Google Book Scanning Project–Issues and Updates
Educause Live presents:Topic: The Google Book Scanning Project—Issues and UpdatesDate: September 2, 2009Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT). International participants: You may wish to visit this external time-conversion website to calculate the start time in your time zone.Duration: 1 hour For about five years, Google has been scanning…
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Webinar: Defining Web-Scale Discovery: The Promise of a Unified Search Index for Libraries
Received the following email: Date: August 18, 2009 • Time: 9:00-10:00 AM PDT (12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT) Please Join Us for Part 3 of Library Journal’s “Returning the Researcher to the Library” Webcast Series “Why can’t I search the library the way Google searches the Web?” Librarians have been fielding that question for more…
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Sol on Discovering Discovery Services
Over at the Federated Search Blog, Sol has a great post called Discovering discovery services, where he explains what these new search products are, how they work, and how they differ from Federated Search. I’ll be including a link to this post when I introduce and open up our beta of Summon to our full…
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Summon: And then there were two
Last month Dartmouth opened its instance of Summon to the world, and now you can compare that to Summon at the University of Liverpool. Read the press release at Library Technology Guides.
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Wikipedia in the catalogue?
Image via Wikipedia I learned from Eric Rumsey that the State Library of Kansas includes Wikipedia articles in their OPAC. Here are some examples: http://topekalibraries.info/search/awikimedia. About 15 minutes later I saw that Aaron Schmidt posted on the DCPL Labs site that in a recent survey 88% “of people responded that they prefer the content from…
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Ready to try Summon? Go ahead!
Dartmouth, one of the first two (I think) libraries to sign on as beta partners with Serials Solutions’ Summon Unified Discovery Service, has opened the beta up to its entire campus community. And you can search it too! You’ll find a prominent link on their home page, or you can jump directly to the search…
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First Impressions
I finally got around to reading a couple of posts I'd squirreled away, and they turn out to be somewhat related. Brian Mathews posts about 5 next-gen library catalogs and 5 students: their initial impressions. Important to us here at the UofC as we continue to beta test Summon. While admittedly not scientific, there are…
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University of Calgary and BMJ Sign On for the Summon Unified Discovery Service
Ahh, I got scooped by Marshall Breeding! I'd been watching what I assumed was the official Serials Solutions Press Release page before letting you know that the University of Calgary has signed on as a beta with the Summon Unified Discovery Service product from Serials Solutions, but apparently it's been released elsewhere, and you can…