Evaluating Library Discovery Tools through a Music Lens

Belford, Rebecca

doi:10.5860/lrts.58n1.49

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“…Además de orientar las posibles adquisiciones, es interesante destacar que resulta pertinente que la comparación se establezca también con Google Académico (Asher; Duke; Wilson, 2013). -Análisis de resultados desde la perspectiva particular de una disciplina o un tipo de materiales (Belford, 2014;Fu;Thomes, 2014). -Estudios de usabilidad sobre aplicaciones en bibliotecas concretas (Fagan et al, 2012;Cassidy et al, 2014).…”

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Servicios de descubrimiento basados en un índice centralizado: su expansión en las bibliotecas académicas españolas y futuras líneas de investigación

Yunta¹

2015

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Resumen: Los servicios de descubrimiento constituyen un elemento de innovación y modernización para las bibliotecas universitarias y de investigación. En los últimos años se ha producido una fuerte implantación de estas herramientas en España, con la nueva generación de estos sistemas, denominada habitualmente como web-scale discovery services, aunque resulta más significativo categorizarlas como index-based discovery services, servicios de descubrimiento basados en un índice centralizado. En la difusión de este modelo compiten especialmente las multinacionales ProQuest y Ebsco, ya que integran el software de recuperación con la distribución de bases de datos bibliográficas. Se valoran las razones del éxito de estos servicios, sus ventajas e inconvenientes, así como las líneas de investigación que están generando.Palabras clave: Servicios de descubrimiento; Opac; Interfaz de usuario; Bases de datos bibliográficas; Recuperación de información; Mercado de la información; Software bibliotecario.Abstract: Discovery services constitute an element of innovation and modernization for university and research libraries. In recent years their presence has become strong in Spain, with the new generation of these systems, commonly referred to as web-scale discovery services, although it is more meaningful to categorize them as index-based discovery services. The multinational companies ProQuest and Ebsco are especially competing in the dissemination of this model, as they integrate information retrieval software with the bibliographic databases they distribute. The reasons for the success of these services are evaluated, with their advantages and disadvantages, as well as the research lines they are generating.

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Servicios de descubrimiento basados en un índice centralizado: su expansión en las bibliotecas académicas españolas y futuras líneas de investigación

Yunta¹

2015

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“…Belford noted that for music, medium of performance (in an optional MARC 048 field, or RDA MARC 382 field) and "MARC 344-347 fields (sound, moving image, video, and digital file characteristics)" could be useful in identifying formats if more of this data were present in records. 9 Majors and Mantz looked specifically at discovery tools in searching for music, "where a keyword search will usually result in a multi-format set of results if not something richer and therefore more complicated. Empowering the user with effective tools to manipulate a large and varied search result set is key to user success with music searching."…”

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Can RDA Content, Media, and Carrier Coding Improve Discovery Facet Mapping?

McCallum¹,

Gilbertson²,

Kelley³

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T he online public catalog interface of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University (WFU) has provided users with the option of faceted searching since 2009. Although faceting is undoubtedly useful to the discovery process, we found that our system's default facet mapping was inadequate for our researchers' needs, particularly regarding the faceting of bibliographic formats, and our librarians have worked extensively to revise this mapping. These revisions have relied on creating complex decision trees, which require the system to consult multiple fields and subfields in bibliographic records, to assign more precise format facets. When our authority control vendor, Backstage Library Works, offered to add Resource Description and Access (RDA) coding to our bibliographic records, including the new Content, Media, and Carrier Type (CMC) fields that describe formats with greater granularity than the General Material Designation (GMD), we questioned whether the new coding could be used to improve the format faceting in our public catalog. With this research question in mind, we sent our bibliographic records to Backstage for RDA enrichment. SettingLocated in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, WFU is a private institution with approximately 4,800 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students. Three libraries-a medical library, a law and professional library, and the Z. Smith Reynolds Library (ZSR)-support the university's academic activities. ZSR, the largest of the three libraries, serves both undergraduate and graduate students in WFU's ZSR currently holds approximately 1.9 million print volumes and provides access to more than fifty thousand electronic journals (e-journals) and almost eight hundred thousand electronic books (e-books). Nonprint collections (film, microform, music, digital, etc.) and the university's archival and special collections (rare books and manuscripts) are also housed in ZSR. Additionally, ZSR has been a selective depository for US government documents since 1902. The library is organized into seven departments-Administration, Access Services, Digital Scholarship, Research and Instruction, Resource Services, Special Collections and Archives, and Technology-that regularly collaborate on library projects and initiatives, including the focus of this case study and analysis.ZSR's integrated library system is Ex Libris' Voyager, and ZSR has used VuFind, an open source discovery system developed by Villanova University, since 2009 as its primary online catalog interface. With sophisticated indexing and versatile searching capabilities, VuFind enables ZSR librarians to customize the catalog experience via a number of algorithmic parameters, including variables in the SolrMarc software used to index MARC metadata. Moreover, VuFind provides progressive search refinements within sets of search results via multiple flexible query facets.RDA for original cataloging was adopted at ZSR in December 2013, after accepting RDA for copy cataloging at an earlier date. These relatively small additions of RDA...

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Seek and You Shall Find? An Observational Study of Music Students' Library Catalog Search Behavior

Clark

Yeager

2018

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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Evaluating Library Discovery Tools through a Music Lens

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Servicios de descubrimiento basados en un índice centralizado: su expansión en las bibliotecas académicas españolas y futuras líneas de investigación

Servicios de descubrimiento basados en un índice centralizado: su expansión en las bibliotecas académicas españolas y futuras líneas de investigación

Can RDA Content, Media, and Carrier Coding Improve Discovery Facet Mapping?

Seek and You Shall Find? An Observational Study of Music Students' Library Catalog Search Behavior

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