Tag Archives: Discovery Interfaces

VALA2010 Plenary 3 Breeding

VALA20120Blending evolution with revolution: a new cycle of library automation spins on.

VALA 2010 PLENARY 3: Marshall Breeding
Wednesday 10 February 2010, 08:45 – 09:55
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-3-breeding

VALA2010 Keynote SpeakerMarshall Breeding

Director for Innovative Technologies and Research, Vanderbilt University Libraries, Nashville, USA
http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/breeding and http://www.librarytechnology.org

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    VALA2010 Plenary 3 Breeding Presentation 5.49 MB

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Based on his ongoing research and analysis of the product, technology, and business trends of the library automation industry, Marshall Breeding will give his perspective on the current state of the field and what libraries can expect over the next few years. While some companies will continue a stable and evolutionary path, others articulate more dramatic changes in their strategies. Open source ILS options have already repainted the landscape, with new community source projects underway that promise additional change. The industry drives forward on two fronts, one focusing on automating internal library processes and the other providing new ways for users to discovery and access library collections. Major tech trends such as the rapid rise in smart mobile devices, the shift from local computing to platform-as-a-service cloud computing bring new mandates of change that demand new directions of innovation. These cycles all turn within an economic climate that presents great challenges in the levels of resources that libraries can bring to the table.

VALA2010 Session 4 White

VALA20120All aboard ParlInfo Search: the journey towards integrated access to bibliographic and full text information from the Parliament of Australia

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 4 – Discovery
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 15:15 – 15:45
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-4-white

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperShirley White

Project Officer, Parliamentary Library, Canberra
http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au

Roxanne Missingham

Parliamentary Librarian, Parliamentary Library, Canberra
http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au

Rina Brettell

Project Manager, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra
http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au

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    VALA2010 Session 4 White Paper 754.82 KB
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This paper outlines the journey towards ParlInfo Search, a high-profile service that provides integrated access to bibliographic and full text information that is of interest both to the Parliament of Australia and to the public in general. The paper outlines the business needs of the system, stakeholder and governance issues and discusses Parlinfo Search’s technical architecture and content solution, its features, lessons learnt during the course of the project and future directions.

VALA2010 Session 4 Garraway

VALA20120The Big BUT: the influence of business, users, and technology on unified resource discovery

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 4 – Discovery
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 14:05 – 14:35
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-4-garraway

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperJohn Garraway

Manager, Digital Services and Information Commons, The University of Auckland Library, New Zealand
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz

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The University of Auckland Library has introduced a Unified Resource Discovery (URD) environment, but has discovered implementing the technology alone does not necessarily provide a complete solution. This paper identifies other constraints, including different business models and user behaviour for acceptance of new technology that can influence the outcome. It concludes by articulating the role the Library can play in facilitating alignment between business, users, and technology to achieve a URD environment that works.

VALA2010 Session 1 Burke

VALA20120Discovery versus disintermediation: the new reality driven by today’s end-user

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Discovery
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 12:00 – 12:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-1-burke

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperJane Burke

Vice-President, ProQuest, LLC, USA
http://www.serialssolutions.com

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Increasingly, libraries are viewed as irrelevant to the research process, leaving them vulnerable to being cut, both financially and from the mind of the end user. However, new ways of discovering content in library collections holds the promise of returning the researcher to the library. The author explores the impact of search technology including Discovery Layers (NGCs), Federated Search, and the emerging trend toward Web-Scale Discovery.

VALA2010 Session 1 Joc

VALA20120The impact of discovery platforms on the information seeking behaviour of ESL undergraduate students

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Discovery
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 11:25 – 11:55
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-1-joc

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperKaren Joc

Assistant Dean, Dubai Library, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
http://www.zu.ac.ae

Kayo Chang

Instructor & Reference/Instruction Librarian, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
http://www.zu.ac.ae

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    VALA2010 Session 1 Joc Paper 68.93 KB
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Between September and December 2009, librarians at Zayed University undertook a three phase randomised, semi-blind usability study focusing on four discovery platforms, to ascertain which of these discovery platforms if any best met the criteria of these EFL digital natives. Three of the platforms were vendor based (AquaBrowser, Encore, Primo) and one of the platforms is open source (VuFind). In particular the investigators were concerned with the students’ browsing and searching experience; were students provided with appropriate search options/alternatives; did students experience any dead-end searches; the relevancy of resources retrieved for search terms entered; the possibility of Arabisation; and, most importantly, the overall users’ experience.

 

VALA2010 Session 1 Graham

VALA20120Making our catalogue as easy as 1, 2, 3

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Discovery
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 10:50 – 11:20
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-1-graham

Bobby GrahamVALA Peer Reviewed Paper

Director Web Publishing (Acting), National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

Paul Hagon

Senior Web Designer, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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    VALA2010 Session 1 Graham Paper 1.71 MB
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A library’s catalogue is core to a library’s existence. The National Library of Australia recognises this and spends a great deal of time, energy and money on the data that goes into the catalogue. Less attention is spent on design and user experience. This changed in May 2008 when the National Library of Australia implemented VuFind as the new online catalogue. A year after this implementation, the Library reviewed the user behaviour and usability of the VuFind online catalogue. This paper outlines the process of that review, what the review has delivered and how we can use this information to meet the ever-increasing user expectations.

VALA2008 Session 9 Jenks

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperUtilising tools for discovery

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 9: Management Information
Wednesday 6 February 2008 15:10 – 15:40
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-9-jenks

Heather Jenks

Associate University Librarian, Collection Services, AUT University
http://www.aut.ac.nz

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AUT University Library is a member of LCoNZ, the Library Consortia of New Zealand which collaborated to install the Voyager system. Part of this collaborative activity included the installation of a federated searching service. The paper explores what happens when a library introduces a discovery tool, and then has to withdraw the service. The full text downloads statistics show the outcome of searches made using the EnCompass commercial federated searching service, Google Scholar and then return to a commercial federated searching service, 360 Search. The paper will detail further changes planned to ensure a successful transition into the Web 2.0 environment.

VALA2008 Session 12 Dellit

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperCollecting the best data: improving cataloguing systems

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: ILMS
Thursday 7 February 2008 11:55 – 12:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-12-dellit

Alison Dellit

Metadata Librarian, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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VALA2008 Session 12 Dellit Paper 112.21 KB
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As libraries come to grips with enormous changes in information-seeking behaviour, many institutions are seeking to build “new generation” catalogues, which make resource discovery simple and fun. To fully take advantage of these changes, libraries also need to re-think what data we should be recording about our collections; and how we are recording it. The National Library of Australia is developing a new tool to streamline the process of selecting a correct subject heading. In the future, an even more radical approach to subject analysis and classification may be required to efficiently catalogue the increasing amount of born-digital information.

VALA2008 Session 12 Sokvitne

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperAll for naught: using existing bibliographic data to deliver modern search tools

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: ILMS
Thursday 7 February 2008 11:20 – 11:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-12-sokvitne

Lloyd Sokvitne

Senior Manager (Digital Strategies), State Library of Tasmania
http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au

Jan Lavelle

Senior Librarian (Systems Development), State Library of Tasmania
http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au

Carmel Denholm

Senior Cataloguer (Metadata), State Library of Tasmania
http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au

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VALA2008 Session 12 Sokvitne Paper 368.29 KB
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In 2006, the State Library of Tasmania undertook a process to develop a facet-enabled catalogue that would replace its traditional OPAC. It became apparent that questions concerning which facets to provide were inextricably linked with the quality and availability of data from the traditional bibliographic database. This data reflected internal and external cataloguing policies that had varied over a number of years, and the State Library found that it had to extensively correct, modify, manipulate and create a range of data in order to provide the facets it required. This paper describes those processes in detail.