Setting a Direction for Discovery: A Phased Approach

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Setting a Direction for Discovery: A Phased Approach

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Fransen, Jan

Friedman-Shedlov, Lara

Theis-Mahon, Nicole

Traill, Stacie

Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan

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2012

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IGI Global

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While many other academic libraries are currently or have recently faced the challenge of setting a new direction for their discovery platforms, the University of Minnesota is perhaps unique in its phased approach to the process. In the spring of 2011, the University of Minnesota Libraries appointed a Discoverability task force to identify a Web-scale discovery solution, the third phase in the Discoverability research process. Discoverability 3 Task Force members are now synthesizing the work of two previous phases and other relevant internal and external analyses to develop requirements and selection criteria for the solution. Some of these requirements and criteria are standard for any large-scale system implementation. Others were derived from the findings of the previous two phases of the Discoverability project. The authors discuss the Libraries’ phased approach to developing a vision for discovery and selecting a solution that puts the Libraries on a path to fulfilling that vision.

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Online library catalogs

Federated searching

Library web sites

Library catalogs and users

Information behavior

Academic libraries--United States--Case studies

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Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations, University Libraries
Janet L. Fransen
Nicole Theis-Mahon
Stacie Traill

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978-1-4666-1821-3
978-1-4666-1822-0

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Fransen, J., Friedman-Shedlov, L., Theis-Mahon, N., Traill, S., & Boudewyns, D. (2012). Setting a Direction for Discovery: A Phased Approach. In M. Popp, & D. Dallis (Eds.), Planning and Implementing Resource Discovery Tools in Academic Libraries(pp. 174-193). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-1821-3.ch011

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Fransen, Jan; Friedman-Shedlov, Lara; Theis-Mahon, Nicole; Traill, Stacie; Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan. (2012). Setting a Direction for Discovery: A Phased Approach. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/126757.

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