Encore Implementation: One Academic Library's Experience Christopher C. Brown, Reference Technology Integration Librarian Elizabeth S. Meagher, Metadata & Materials Processing Librarian Sandra Macke, Catalog Librarian University of Denver, Penrose Library http://library.du.edu/
Rollout We didn’t do any publicity; we just launched it by changing pull down menu default on front page Patterned after Michigan State University We didn’t even name it. It was just “Peak,” the same name we gave our classic Innovative catalog
Our entry point
Keyword Searching as Starting Point More Google-like Works quite well for known-item searching Is much faster than regular catalog Has no limits to result set Our reference librarians have adjusted quite well to new paradigm
Keyword Comparison Millennium OPAC Encore Author keyword Title keyword Subject keyword Notes keyword Notes Keyword ISBN
Relevancy Ranking Slightly differs from Millennium ranking Priority on title keyword This can be mitigated by the subject refinement
Serials on top: one of the best-kept secrets - Encore bonuses!
Community tagging
Yahoo images Yahoo pulled this image from our library’s finding aid
Our video problem Who knows what “videorecording” is anyway?
Facets solve our video problem
Links to Inn-Reach (Prospector)
No results limits You could retrieve your entire database if you had a hook! Example: we can retrieve all online records, since our field 856 subfield u is indexed in the keyword index
Search with no limits
All online records
Ultimate Reference Tool Goal: to make searching the OPAC at least as easy as browsing the reference shelves. Reference books going away How can we cope with this? Answer: New scopings: Reference and E-Ref
Scoping – Interaction of Scopes E-Ref scope is also a member of the Internet scope and the Reference scope Internet Reference E-Ref
Reference/E-Reference Scoping Example
E-Reference
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New Display Headings for Format Std. Display Headings Printed Matl [ a ] Proj Medium [ g ] Manuscripts [ t ] Sound Record [ j ] Computer file [ m ] Printed Map [ e ] 2-D Graphic [ k ] New Display Headings Books/Journals DVD/Videos Diss/Theses Music/Sound CD-ROMs/Data Maps/Atlases Images 23
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▼COLLECTION The Cable Center (1) Penrose/Music (938) 25
▼COLLECTION The Cable Center (1) Penrose/Music (953) E-Reference (2) Journals/serials (20) DVD/Videos (2) Internet (3)
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Community Tags millionth url! Add a Tag
Escape Hatch: Find out more
Community Tagging Refine by Tag: millionth url!
Community Tagging: Book Plate in memory of john kice (1930-2008) dean of nsme, 1988-1995
Numerical Shrinkage
Diss/Theses (101)
Internet (55) Narrow down the material you need to comb through
Undo Element of Search
Back up to Diss/Theses(101)
Publish Date ▼PUBLISH DATE 2000 (1) 1995 (1) 1994 (1) 1979 (1)
Encore for Database maintenance
3-D Objects (1)
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- Romance (Other) (1) Dutch (1) Gbaya (1) Yiddish (1)
Possible projects Language issues Look at large search sets Incorrect Codes Ancient Greek vs. Modern Greek Language readers coded as English Multilingual Look at large search sets Feature films Electronic books History Science
Drawbacks Can’t show you want isn’t there Missing MARC fields, etc. Time delay in updates in Millennium vs. showing up in Encore
Encore Implementation: One Academic Library's Experience Christopher C. Brown, Reference Technology Integration Librarian Elizabeth S. Meagher, Metadata & Materials Processing Librarian Sandra Macke, Catalog Librarian University of Denver, Penrose Library http://library.du.edu/