User Testing of an SFX Menu Redesign Bennett Ponsford Digital Services Librarian Texas A&M University Libraries
The existing Services Menu design dated from 2005 - a very traditional out-of-the-box SFX menu. Were unhappy with design and wanted/needed/planned a change. Data showed that 87% of Services Menu use was confined to full text linking. When no full text available, only 30% tried something else - usually ILL.
Extracting Verde data for use in an ILL Permissions Application Written by Wayne Johnson, University of Guelph Presented by Charles Woods, University of Waterloo
The objective of this project was to provide a limited view of Verde data for a selected audience; specifically to display Verde license info for ILL staff. Verde is so complex and contains so much information (some of it confidential) that it's fine to bypass all this for staff with a very specific purpose. The licensing terms themselves are often also complex and it's not easy for a non-expert to interpret it into a concrete answer to "Can we loan this?" The application boils licensing terms down into three possible answers - "Yes," "No," or "Maybe/Unknown".
Voyager-Verde Data Interaction Ted Schwitzner and Anita Foster Illinois State University
Agenda: Ted - Rationale for the project; getting data out of Voyager Anita - Getting Voyager data into Verde Ted and Anita - Recommendations for attendees
Oren Beit-Arie, Ex Libris Chief Strategy Officer on Product Strategy Vision and Strategy; Roadmap
The future of libraries? Technology has created a very different context for the missions of academic and research libraries (No Brief Candle, Daphnee Rentfrow) - Ex Libris subscribes to this notion. Ithaka strategy and research faculty survey - scholarly information use practices have shifted rapidly; as a result the academic library is being dis-intermediated from the discovery process, risking irrelevance. But faculty members' growing comfort with digital versions of scholarly materials opens new opportunities for libraries. Digital Information Seeker survey on behalf of JISC: Google is central, but users want enhanced functionality in library systems and enhanced content to help resource evaluation. Therefore, high-quality metadata is becoming more important; the library system must do better in providing seamless access between discovery and delivery.
Matti Shem Tov - President and CEO of Ex Libris Ex Libris Moving Forward
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