{"product_id":"9780838914144","title":"Exploring Discovery: The Front Door to Your Library's Licensed and Digitized Content","description":"We're in a new age of Discovery. Not of the physical world but rather one that serves up appropriate resources for your library's researchers, thanks to advancements in handling metadata, natural language processing, and keyword searching. For you, Discovery might be shorthand for single-index products such as Serials' Solutions Summon, EBSCO Discovery, and OCLC's WorldCat Discovery. Yet even those tools require adjustments to meet your institution's specific needs. With first-hand profiles of 19 library projects, Varnum and his roster of contributors offer guidance on the complete range of discovery services, from the broad sweep of vendors' products to the fine points of specialized holdings. Topics include:\u003cp\u003emigrating from a traditional ILS to a library services platform;\u003cbr\u003e creating a task list for usability testing of discovery;\u003cbr\u003e managing internal development requirements within the constraints of a small or mid-sized library;\u003cbr\u003e applying agile software methodology to a Blacklight implementation;\u003cbr\u003e real-world examples of usability testing, including a small liberal arts college's implementation of VuFind;\u003cbr\u003e meeting the challenge of three different metadata formats;\u003cbr\u003e practices in the Primo community for integrating open access content into the front end;\u003cbr\u003e serving mobile users with an app and responsive Web design;\u003cbr\u003e analyzing the use of facets in search;\u003cbr\u003e using a single discovery tool across a library, museum, and archive; and implementing discovery with geospatial datasets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEasy to dip into as needed, this comprehensive examination of discovery services will prove invaluable to IT, web development, electronic resource management, and technical services staff.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50086803276016,"sku":"9780838914144","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780838914144","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}