: the front door to your library's licensed and digitized content
/ Edited by Kenneth J. Varnum
Chicago
: ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
, 2016
xii, 292 p.
: illustrations
; 23 cm
English
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part 1. Vended discovery systems -- Collaborative growth towards discovery : becoming stronger through change / by Margaret Heller and Hong Ma -- Approaching discovery as part of a library service platform : lessons learned / by Nathan Hosburgh -- When you rent your front door : a mid-size library's experiences relying on discovery vendors / by Stephen Bollinger and Kate Silton -- Exploring discovery @ Rosenberg Library : what happens when a library, a museum, and an archives get together to share a single discovery tool? / by T. Louise M. Kidder -- Part 2. Custom discovery systems -- Geospatial resource discovery / by Darren Hardy, Jack Reed, and Bess Sadler -- Discovery on a shoestring : implementing a full-functioned discovery tool with free software and no-extra-charge metadata sources / by Julia Bauder -- Agile open-source discovery : Blacklight with EBSCO Discovery Service / by Sam Popowich -- Using Blacklight for archival discovery / by Adam Wead and Jennie Thomas -- Creating a "magical" request and delivery experience for patrons using a Blacklight-based catalog / by Matthew Connolly, Jennifer Colt, Joanne Leary, and Melissa Wallace -- Part 3. Interfaces -- The bento box design pattern / by Jason Thomale, William Hicks, and Mark Phillips -- One-to-many : building a single-search interface for disparate resources / by Cole Hudson and Graham Hukill -- Integrating discovery to improve the user experience / by Sonya Betz and Ian Roberton -- Fixing facets / by Sean Hannan,
Electronic information resource searching.
Federated searching.
Information retrieval--Computer programs.
User interfaces (Computer systems)
Libraries--Special collections--Electronic information resources.