Primo Central Presentation by Tianmu Zhang & Chris Mitchell
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It summarizes that Primo Central includes local holdings and remote resources in its central index to provide an easy one-stop search across materials. While promising for users, libraries implementing it have mostly not yet made it the default search and are evaluating its impact on discovery and workloads. The document outlines sample questions being used to understand user experiences and implementation approaches.
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Webscale Discovery and Information Literacy
The document discusses web scale discovery tools and their relationship to information literacy. It provides context on the social, economic, technological, and political factors driving adoption of these tools. It then examines perceptions of libraries and describes various commercial and open source discovery services. Desired features of discovery services are outlined. Early reports suggest discovery tools have increased usage of licensed resources but students struggle to interpret results. This raises implications for information literacy support. Challenges around balancing convenience with developing research skills are debated. The document concludes by posing four questions around how discovery tools can support information literacy goals.
Web-Scale Discovery: Post Implementation
Discovery services provide users a single
search box to access a library’s entire prei-ndexed collection. Representatives from
two academic libraries serving different
user populations will discuss marketing,
instructing users, evaluating the product,
and maintaining the resource after a
discovery service is implemented
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- 1. Introducing Primo Central Christopher Mitchell, Mark Baggett, Tianmu Zhang
- 2. Definitions Web-Scale Central Discovery Index A pre-harvested The collection central index index of local and coupled with a remote processed richly featured metadata and full discovery layer . text.
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- 7. Who are the targeted audiences? Undergraduate Students Procrastinators “Hardcore” Researchers
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