Integrating Local Expertise into Virtual Libraries and Discovery

Systems

CuLLR team● Adam Chandler● John Cline● Jeremy Cusker● Dianne Dietrich● Michael Engle● Holly Mistlebauer● Jim Reidy● Marty Schlabach● Leah Solla

Discovery and Access, Integration Layer Team● Simeon Warner● Glen Wiley● Rick Silterra● Keith Jenkins● Jon Corson-Rikert● Mira Myhre● Dianne Dietrich● Dean Krafft

Simeon Warner (Cornell University Library)describing work mostly of other people, the two key teams being:

simeon.warner@cornell.edu, Fall CNI Membership Meeting 2011-12-12

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Finding aids: The old way

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Experience with virtual library 1.0?● Specialized lists considered useful

● Very painful to update

(~ 3200 hand entered and updated items for the

Physical Sciences Library)

● Does not leverage information in catalog

(search either local items or whole catalog)

CuLLR data flow and components

CuLLR = Curated List of Library Resources

First stage is general...

PLOP = Persistent Library Object Pages

...and then for each virtual library

Expectations for virtual library 2.0?● More functional as can relatively easily define a

large subset of items in the catalog as relevant

● Less painful to update. Significant effort to

minimize manual work updating

● May want ability to add items not in catalog

● Don't yet know how similarly different virtual

libraries will use CuLLR

Centralized Discovery and Access Facilities at Cornell

● Goal is to provide “one search box” as a starting point for searches over all items

● Recent decision to purchase Summon● Roll out first as article search replacing

EBSCOhost (January 2012)● Expect to integrate catalog and other sources

(e.g. eCommons) but not everything

Approach

● Include what we can and what works in Summon (expect at least articles, catalog, IR)

● Use additional result panes as necessary● Create system that gives overview with links to

more specialized searches● Surface local resources and local expertise● Enable semantic queries

Integration Layer

Open question

● How do we use information from disciplinary virtual libraries in the central discovery and access system?● Inherent tension between local and global● Won't know user area initially, might infer likely area

from query/results● How do we deal with possibly conflicting information

about one resource as “used” in multiple virtual libraries?

Multiple panes vs one result set

Panes● Easier to implement

● Shows space of possible results

● Avoid trying to rank apples and oranges together

One result set● Simpler to understand

● Uniform interface for all things

● More efficient use of screen real estate

Questions?

Me:● Simeon Warner <simeon.warner@cornell.edu>

Contact for CuLLR:● Holly Mistlebauer <hlm7@cornell.edu>