The document summarizes Peter Murray's presentation at the OHECC Annual Meeting on new directions for discovering information. The presentation covered what OhioLINK is, how users currently search for information versus how it actually happens in libraries, challenges with innovation, and components of OhioLINK's discovery layer including a unified index, federated search, user interface, and delivery resolver. It also discussed hosted solutions versus toolkit approaches and concluded with a process overview and reality check.

1. New Directions for Discovering Information
OHECC Annual Meeting, 26-Mar-2009, Dayton, OH
Peter Murray, Assistant Director for New Service Development, OhioLINK
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2. Presentation Outline
• What is OhioLINK?
• Searching for Information:
Library as We Know It and
How It Actually Happens
• The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Library Advantage
• Components of OhioLINK’s Discovery Layer
• Process and Reality Check

3. What is
OhioLINK?

4. Searching for
Information in a Library

5. Searching for
Information in a Library

21. How Users Prefer to
Search for Information

22. How Users Prefer to
Search for Information

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24. The Library Advantage
“Librarian Action Figure” by Gwen’s River City Images

25. Unified Index –
Components to the
“Index” by Ella Marie

26. Federated Search –
Components to the
“Heady days.” by JanneM

27. User Interface –
Components to the
“Roomba 530 User Interface” by FG@flickr.com

28. Delivery Resolver –
Components to the
“WE DELIVER” by spike55151

29. Hosted, SaaS – Two
General Classes of
“The Atomic Explosion and Mushroom Fallout at Sunset” by Stuck in Customs

30. Toolkit – Two General
Classes of Solutions
“VW Tools” by JohnEdgarPark

31. Process
“Toast Process” by Jeff Werner

32. Reality Check
“Self Awareness” by Vicki & Chuck Rogers

33. Parting Thoughts
“Lonely in golden place!” by khalid almasoud

34. For
More
Information
Peter Murray,
peter@OhioLINK.edu
http://dltj.org/article/ohecc-dl/