1. 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

2. 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

3. Our entry point

4. 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

5. Keyword Comparison Millennium OPAC Encore Author keyword Title keyword
Subject keyword
Notes keyword
Notes Keyword
ISBN

6. Relevancy Ranking Slightly differs from Millennium ranking
Priority on title keyword
This can be mitigated by the subject refinement

7. Serials on top: one of the best-kept secrets - Encore bonuses!

8. Community tagging

9. Yahoo images
Yahoo pulled this image from our library’s finding aid

10. Our video problem
Who knows what “videorecording” is anyway?

11. Facets solve our video problem

12. Links to Inn-Reach (Prospector)

13. 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

14. Search with no limits

15. All online records

16. 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

17. Scoping – Interaction of Scopes
E-Ref scope is also a member of the Internet scope and the Reference scope
Internet
Reference
E-Ref

18. Reference/E-Reference Scoping Example

19. E-Reference

20. ENCORE FOR THE BACKROOM20

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23. 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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25. ▼COLLECTION
The Cable Center (1)
Penrose/Music (938) 25

26. ▼COLLECTION The Cable Center (1) Penrose/Music (953) E-Reference (2)
Journals/serials (20)
DVD/Videos (2)
Internet (3)

27. -fewer
+more 27

28. Table of
Contents 28

29. ▼ Table of Contents 29

30. ▼ Table of Contents 30

31. More Details of Bib Record31

32. Community Tags
millionth url!
Add a Tag

33. Escape Hatch: Find out more

34. Community Tagging
Refine by Tag:
millionth url!

35. Community Tagging: Book Plate
in memory of john kice
( ) dean of nsme,

36. Numerical Shrinkage

37. Diss/Theses (101)

38. Internet (55)
Narrow down the material you need to comb through

39. Undo Element of Search

40. Back up to Diss/Theses(101)

41. Publish Date
▼PUBLISH DATE
2000 (1)
1995 (1)
1994 (1)
1979 (1)

42. Encore for Database maintenance

43. 3-D Objects (1)

45. More

46. - Romance (Other) (1)
Dutch (1)
Gbaya (1)
Yiddish (1)

48. 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

49. Drawbacks Can’t show you want isn’t there
Missing MARC fields, etc.
Time delay in updates in Millennium vs. showing up in Encore

50. 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