Greg Vogl and Dennis Ogg Research and Development Services Colorado State University Libraries January 6, 2010

 Project overview  Current status ◦ New features ◦ Hands-on exercise  Future possibilities ◦ Features ◦ Data Sources ◦ Software  Feedback

 Provide a tool to: ◦ Facilitate awareness of, access to and use of resources for academic research ◦ Search multiple library data sources at once ◦ Improve the user’s search experience

 User-centered design  Simple Google-like search  Relevant results  Facets to browse and refine search results Facets  Suggestions for error recovery  Related items, information and resources  Interconnect with other software

 : created Libraries R&D department  : explored catalog interface software  : started development with VuFind  : created advisory team  : conducted usability studies  : presented Discovery PDI  : released Discovery beta  : released Discovery  : created Discovery Tools Committee

 Default search box on Libraries home pageLibraries home page  Multiple data sources ◦ CSU Library Catalog (Sage) ◦ CSU Digital Repository ◦ CSU Libraries Website  Availability in Regional Catalog (Prospector)  CSU theses and dissertations CSU theses and dissertations  Citations and export to reference managers  For the latest news, click About DiscoveryAbout Discovery

 Library Staff Groups ◦ Research and Development Services Department ◦ Discovery Tool Advisory Team ◦ Discovery Tools Committee  Needs Analysis and Assessment ◦ Focus groups (students, faculty/staff) ◦ Usability testing (Techsmith Morae) ◦ Survey (SurveyMonkey) ◦ Usage statistics (Google Analytics)

 Go to  Use Discovery to complete the provided tasks  Refer to the possible solutions if desired  Also see the online helponline help

 Interface  Navigation  Authentication  Personalization  Communication

 Course reserves Course reserves  Digital Collections (CONTENTdm) Digital CollectionsCONTENTdm  Other CSU publications, documents, data  Regional Catalog (Prospector) Regional Catalog (Prospector)  Other Colorado library catalogsColorado library catalogs  WorldCat WorldCat  Articles (journal, magazine, newspaper)

 Open Source ◦ VuFind - demo VuFind demo ◦ Blacklight - demo Blacklight demo ◦ LibraryFind - demo LibraryFind demo  Commercial ◦ Encore - example Encore example ◦ Primo - example Primo example ◦ WorldCat Local - example WorldCat Localexample

 ExLibris MetaLib - example ExLibris MetaLibexample  Xerxes - local demo, demo Xerxeslocal demodemo  OCLC FirstSearch - example OCLC FirstSearchexample

 Serials Solutions Summon - demo Serials Solutions Summondemo  Ebsco Discovery Service - demo Ebsco Discovery Servicedemo  WorldCat WorldCat  Primo Central Primo Central

 PDI feedback form  Discovery comments and suggestions Discovery comments and suggestions  Discovery survey Discovery survey  Future focus groups and usability testing Thanks for your help!