The document discusses the implementation and challenges of discovery tools in libraries, focusing on the Palni private academic library network and Indiana University's library system. It highlights the extensive resources available, including databases, e-books, and integrated search functionality, while addressing complications such as data management and record sharing. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of understanding data, involving catalogers, and user testing to improve library services.

1. Doctoring
Strange
Results
(or, how I learned to
stop worrying and love
my Discovery tool)
Josh Petrusa LITA FORUM Courtney Greene
Butler University Columbus OH Indiana University
Libraries October 5, 2012 Libraries

3. http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hype-cycle.jsp

4. http://www.megmims.com/blog/books-read-2

5. Elements of black comedy
• Make light of serious and often Browse …. Thesauri … Controlled
taboo subject matter vocabulary … stop us when you are
upset
• Provoking discomfort and serious
thought as well as amusement in “But I can’t do field code
their audience searching…”
• Express “Implementation will take about
absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, an
d cruelty of the modern world
three months!”
• Ordinary characters or situations
are usually exaggerated far beyond Discovery? Yes! Delivery? Who
the limits of normal satire or irony knows!
• Does not necessarily have the Undergrads will love it!
explicit intention of offending
people

6. PALNI
Private Academic Library Network of Indiana
• 23 private colleges and
universities in Indiana
• FTEs from 100-5000
• Shared usage of
Aleph, SFX, Content DM
• Migrated Aleph SFX to Ex
Libris TotalCare hosting in
2011
• Added hosted Primo for all
members, implementation
beginning January 2011 with
6 institutions

8. IUB LIBRARIES
Flagship campus of Indiana University:
over 40,000 students, 3000 faculty
14 libraries across campus, including the
Herman B Wells Library and our state of the
art offsite storage facility, the ALF (Auxiliary
Library Facility)
7,809,797 bound volumes
~12K print serials, ~60K e-journals
850 databases
1.3 million e-books
IUCAT – shared statewide online catalog
Two simultaneous discovery layer projects:
Ebsco Discovery Service (OneSearch@IU)
Blacklight (new public interface for IUCAT)

9. A few words about IUCAT
SirsiDynix Symphony ILS
Statewide participation leads to a complex data
environment:
- Who shares records? What records? How?
- Cataloging services provided to “extra-systems”
libraries
- Vendor records
- Every format, language, call number scheme you
can think of (and some you would never guess)
- Limits on indexes = “interesting” search results
- No centralization of proxy services,
e-resources budgets

10. implementation
Andrew 94

11. Initial tasks - Customizations

12. Initial Data Review pr0digal

13. “Audiovisual” facet

15. “FRBR-ization”

16. Fake Online Access

17. 856 links:
Defining the
institution

18. Missing
e-books?

19. SFX
and
Linking

20. SFX:
Availability

22. Mystery functionalities

23. Worth the Trouble?

26. No.

28. Metadata
Citation and from EBSCO
abstract data and other
Base index Subscription providers,
enabling
content full-text
linking
ARL Statistics for EBSCOHost
FY2011: 4,275,175
FY2012:
34,198,225
bit.ly/onesearchguest
IUCAT records
What’s in OneSearch@IU?

29. Integrated search

30. Integrated Search Connector Usage: Aug 2011- Aug 2012
50
45
44
40
35
30 31
25
20
15
14
13
10 12
8
5 7
4
1 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 1
0
ProQuest Worldwide
18th C. Washington LexisNexis Literature
GeoScience Dissertation Ethnic Sociological Political
EconLit Collections Post (1877- Congression Criticism PsycINFO
World s and NewsWatch Abstracts Science
Online 1993) al Online
Theses Abstracts
Abstract 1 0 1 2 2 7 44 8 13 14 0
Custom Link 1 0 0 4 2 1 31 12 1 0 1

31. Attacking the extract

34. 007 ain’t no superspy,
aka Format sch-mormat
Online =
856 second indicator 0
OR items in Online Library
(999 m| ONLINE)
OR items in location World Wide
Web (999 l| www)
OR items in location
Music/Variations (999 l|
_MUVARIA)

35. Sakurako Kitsa
Moment of truth

36. Choices

37. 10/4/2012

38. Questions?

39. Denouement:
What we learned
• Know Thy Data.
Understand how your system ingests/indexes its
data
• My friend MARC.
Befriend your catalogers, ask their secrets
• Ask Civilians.
Test with Students – before reference (or any
other) librarians committee it
• Deep thoughts.
Understand the linking/online access universe

40. Thank you
Josh Courtney
Petrusa Greene
Butler Indiana
University Slides at: University
Libraries Libraries
http://slidesha.re/PBBVb2
jpetrusa AT butler dot edu crgreene AT indiana dot edu