The Summon Discovery Tool @ Fort Valley State University
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1) Shaundra Walker presented on the Summon discovery tool that was implemented at Fort Valley State University's Hunt Memorial Library to make finding information across multiple resources easier for students and faculty. 2) Summon indexes the library's catalog records, e-resources, books, e-books, and journal articles to allow a single search across most of the library's scholarly content. 3) Students and faculty have responded positively to Summon for making research easier with features like a single search box, faceted search refinements, and citation formatting.
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The Summon Discovery Tool @ Fort Valley State University
- 1. Shaundra Walker Head of Reference ServicesHenry A. Hunt Memorial LibraryFort Valley State University GUGM 2011 Macon State College May 19, 2011 The Summon Discovery Tool @ FVSU
- 2. About Us FVSU 1890 Land Grant HBCU Hunt Memorial Library Collection 152,000+ volumes Approximately 84 Databases (GALILEO + Independently Purchased) Ebrary, NetLibrary and IEEE ebooks Three Sites Main Library Curriculum Materials Center Warner Robins Center
- 3. Why the Discovery Tool? Multiple information resources Varied platforms Old Way Purchase it and hope they will find it New Way Make it easy for them to find
- 4. Why the Discovery Tool? ROI User Expectations User Experience Too many “clicks” Too many open windows “Where am I?” “How do I get back to where I was?”
- 5. About Summon Hosted Serials Solutions Product Pre-Harvested Content Catalog Records + E-resources Books and e-books Journal Articles Media LibGuides
- 6. About Summon Publisher vs. Database specific Covers over 90% of our full-text scholarly content Nightly updates from the catalog via cron job Next day updates for e-resources via Client Center
- 7. Summon Features Single-search box Faceted refinements RSS feeds Citation-formatting Results folder “Did you mean?” suggestions Database recommender Mobile and tablet friendly
- 8. Implementation Phases GIL Export 360 Core Configuration Tweaking, Tweaking, Tweaking! Soft Launch
- 9. Student/Professor Quotes "The process is a lot easier than how I conducted research during my first semester..." - ENG 1102 Student “I like this way much better!” – ENG 3343 Student “How long have y’all had this?!” –ENG 1102 Student “I like it. I will be encouraging my students to use it.” – English Professor
- 11. Summon @ FVSU Action Plan Marketed to first and second year students Best for discovery searches vs. exact searches Databases will still be taught! Summon at the 1000-2000 level Summon + subject-specific databases at the 3000 – 4000 level Enhancement of not a replacement for GIL and GALILEO
- 12. Looking Ahead Integration of institutional repository Customizing the Link Resolver Page Exploring the API Integration with other resources LibGuides BlackBoard HathiTrust integration Indexing of some full-text should enhance searching of print books
Editor's Notes
- FVSU is one of Georgia’s only two land grants, with UGA being the other. We are the state’s 1890 Land Grant institution. Our signature programs in agriculture are food and animal science, with a particular emphasis on goat research.We also have the distinction of being one of only three public historically black universities in the system.We actually have three sites, our main library, a curriculum materials center which is located in our education building, as well as a small library at our graduate studies center, located in Warner Robins (15 miles from the main campus)
- Multiple information resources – books, articles, videos,Varied platforms – vendors change interfaces often.
- Better return on investment Frustrated users especially first-year students and adult learnersObservations from information literacy classes and observing students working in the library
- Provided by Serials Solutions.Question: what’s the difference between a discovery service and federated searching?Discovery service delivers pre-harvested content. Search does not have to go out and “get” the results; results are already there. Response time is much faster, search results are de-duped in most cases.
- Unified index – enriched as more Summon clients are added. You’ll see in the demo how users can extend their search beyond their libraries collection