Catalog Search: CML's Experience
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The document summarizes Columbus Metropolitan Library's experience implementing a new catalog search system. It discusses the library's outdated previous system from the late 1980s, their reasons for choosing a new system, lessons they learned, tips for gaining staff and customer buy-in, and their plans for future enhancements. The library received both positive and negative feedback from customers on the new catalog search experience.
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Channel Expansion with eCommerce, Aggregates and More
Channel Expansion with eCommerce, Aggregates and More
SUNYLA Technical Services Interest Group Lightning Round 2016
SUNYLA Technical Services Interest Group Lightning Round 2016
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“How do you provide for everyone: success with diverse populations in the UK ...
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Retail, cannibalism and harmony: self destroying retail concept.
Why is product catalog management important for your e commerce store
Why is product catalog management important for your e commerce store
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Saving Time and Money in Warehouse Operations (MFSA Annual Conference)
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Leading Inventory Innovations Within Multi-Channel Retail
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TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy Survey
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
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Large Language Model (LLM) and it’s Geospatial Applications
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ここ3000字までしか入らないけどタイトルの方がたくさん文字入ると思います。
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
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Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
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- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
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Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
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GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
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National Security Agency - NSA mobile device best practices
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
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Catalog Search: CML's Experience
- 1. Catalog Search: CML’s Experience Maria Armitage Amy Barnes Digital Services Columbus Metropolitan Library
- 10. Who’s Talking? I “heart” the catalog! - Staff member Your new catalog search is needlessly complicated and hard to use. The old search was much better. If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it. - Customer via webmail comments
- 11. Please let whoever needs to know that this patron is totally knocked out by the new search engine. - Customer via webmail comments “ Well it’s pretty obvious that no librarian or researcher was involved in deciding the search criteria for the new library catalog.” - Customer via webmail comments
- 13. Questions? Maria Armitage Amy Barnes [email_address] [email_address]
Editor's Notes
- I’m…. And this is… We were heavily involved with the implementation of the new catalog…and here is CML’s experience