Category: Discovery
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EBSCO’s Response to Gale’s Open Letter and Customer Questions
I received the following information from EBSCO this morning – a link to 3 PDF documents addressing some of the brouhaha over their ALA Midwinter announcement of exclusive magazine content. The URL indicates that may be a temporary location, so here are direct links to local copies: EBSCO's Response to Gale's Open Letter ICOLC Questions…
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The trouble with de-duplication and web-scale discovery
One of the topics of discussion at last week's Summon Advisory Board was the status of de-duping records returned by Summon. On the face of it it seems to be a simple issue – if the titles and authors match, throw the duplicate records out and you're good to go. The Summon technical team explained…
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Thoughts from the Summon Advisory Board Meeting
Late last year I was invited to become an inaugural member of the Summon Advisory Board, and yesterday here in Boston we held our first meeting. What a rush! It's days like that that remind me just how much I love my job. The day was filled with stimulating conversation, and I got to meet…
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Serials Solutions partners with Springshare LibGuides
Another press release at Library Technology Guides: Serials Solutions partners with Springshare LibGuides. I’m not entirely sure what this integration actually means, but as a customer of both LibGuides and Serials Solutions I have a query in, and will let you know what more I find out.
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Relais International announces the next generation resource sharing solution
This could prove interesting and useful for consortia that support distance students: Relais International announces D2D – Discovery to Delivery – the next generation resource sharing solution. From the writeup at Library Technology guides: D2D allows users to search across multiple catalogs and targets to find items held by their library and library partners. Targets…
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Distant Librarian’s top 10 posts from 2009
I was poking around Google Analytics for work yesterday and thought it would also be fun to peek at the top ten posts for my blog for 2009. Here they are, without comment: Crappy Experience at the Apple Store A little more info on the Harvard linking BS Jing Pro and Jing Free Is 2009…
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EBSCO Discovery Service – Now Available
I received an email last week that the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) is now available. You can learn more at http://www.ebscohost.com/discovery/ and there’s a link to request a free trial at the top of the page. It looks like they’ve given it the same look as the EBSCOHost products, though there’s mention that the colour…
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On the importance of good metadata
The December 2009 issue of Information Technology and Libraries 28(4) has a slew of articles around discovery systems, all written by librarians from UNLV. I'm hoping to read them over vacation, but no promises. I did read Information Discovery Insights Gained from MultiPAC, a Prototype Library Discovery System by Alex A. Dolski and found it…
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Gale’s iPhone app – AccessMyLibrary
Got a chance to play with Gale's new iPhone app, which acts as a portal to its AccessMyLibrary service. AccessMyLibrary is a service that allows you to access your local public library's Gale databases w/o having to authenticate through the library. So back to the iPhone app. In a nutshell, it works well as far…
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QR codes in the library
Aaron at Walking Paper linked to this great short Prezi by Laurie Bridges on how using QR Codes in Libraries and Museums.