INSTG004 lecture for UCL DIS students - Discovery at the University of London
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INSTG004 Discovery at the University of London Andrew Preater Associate Director Senate House Libraries, University of London
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Talk delivered to UCL information sciences / library studies masters students on Monday 11th and Thursday 15th November 2013.
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INSTG004
Discovery at the University of LondonAndrew PreaterAssociate DirectorSenate House Libraries, University of London
10:00 – 11:00 Discovery and library systems
11:30 – 13:00 Practical: OPAC 2.0 and discovery
Schedule
Role of the systems librarian
Discovery
Next-gen catalog(ue)
OPAC 2.0
Discovery layer / engine
Terminology
Keene, C. (2011) 'Discovery services', Serials, 24 (2) pp. Metapress [Online]. DOI: 10.1629/24193 (Accessed: 10 November 2013).
Discovery at Senate House Libraries
Breeding, M. (2010). Next-gen library catalogs. London: Facet
Positioned as default cataloguehttp://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk
Kuali OLE
VuFindfind.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk
Research Understand it before deploying it
Talja, S. Tuominen, K. and Savolainen, R. (2004) ‘“Isms” in information science: constructivism, collectivism and constructionism’, Journal of Documentation, 61 (1), pp. 79-101 Emerald [Online]. DOI: 10.1108/00220410510578023 (Accessed: 10 November 2013).
Catalogues are websites
Strongly contrasting views of discovery
Influence from using web search
“Web-like” behaviour examples include:
• Scanning Web pages, concentrating on titles and skim-reading• Iterative searching based on skim reading over multiple reworked
search queries• Short queries, characterised by use of a few keywords• A tendency not to look beyond the first page of search results• Trust in search relevancy ranking• A query is seen as part of an ongoing process• Expectation of tolerance to small errors or typos based on ‘Did
you mean...?’ suggestions• “Satisficing” behavior, a tendency to make do with results or
information that seems good enough rather than search exhaustively
By ‘library catalogue-like’ we mean behaviours associated with traditional information retrieval systems including:
• More complex search queries including use of boolean operators• Formulation of queries to meet an ‘approved’ format of the
library bibliographic record, such as searching by author’s last name first.
• A query is seen as a form that should be submitted to get a desired correct result, rather than a process
• Use of pre-limits, such as an index or limit to part of the library collection to control what is searched
• Browsing of the catalogue using linking generated in catalogue records such as subject headings
• Requirement to avoid or correct typos or other errors due to inherent intolerance of the system
Discovery encourages this behaviour?
Affective aspects of catalogue use
Walter, A. and Spool, J.M. (2011). Designing for emotion. New York, NY: A Book Apart.
The staff view
Preater, A. (2013) ‘Discovery at Senate House Libraries: staff focus groups', Ginformation Systems, 14 May. Available at: http://preater.com/x/q (Accessed: 10 November 2013).
‘The Moon on a Stick’, by Flickr user Simon Grieg. License CC-BY-NC-SA. http://flic.kr/p/5wzWZa
One approach won’t suit everyone
back to…
Kuali OLE
Metadata Optimization
Preater, A. (2012) 'Grouse about your next-generation catalogue – LibCamp@Brunel', Ginformation Systems, 29 January. Available at: http://preater.com/x/c (Accessed: 10 November 2013).
Analysis using VuFind
98,994 country of publication4,122 language codes2,133 date codes
