Rethinking How Patrons Discover Information: Implementing a Discovery Tool Beth Ketterman, MLS Megan E. Besaw, MLIS Michael Tucker, BSCS

“Oh God, not another one!” - Kathy A Librarian’s Initial Thoughts on Discovery Tool Implementation

What is a Discovery Tool? A discovery tool is a single search interface that searches the bulk of a library's collection such as books, journals, article content, digital collections, and more.

Starting Down the Road… In December of 2009, ECU library administrators charged ECU Libraries with the following: Within days, either recommend a discovery tool or indicate that none of the tools on the market at the current time are appropriate for ECU Inter-library task force formed in December 2009 from ECU’s Health Sciences, Academic, and Music libraries

Librarians involved included text mark-up analyst (chair), cataloger, public services providers, collection development and e-resources specialists The task force recommended ECU was ready for a discovery tool, so then we had to make a choice between:

Task Force Milestones

Considerations

Hosted Solutions Milestones

The Implementation Process From Summon to One Search

Training Marketing Poster Facebook ad Homepage banner Tent cards around the reference floor and other public spaces Taught in library instruction classes and consultations The Next Step

Link Resolver Is Summon Being Used?

Follow-up Anecdote “One Search has a variety of results and searches in places you wouldn’t have thought in the first place” – Kathy

Questions? Beth Ketterman, MLS – Megan E. Besaw, MLIS –