1. River Campus Libraries Find Articles A Web Redesign for ENCompass David Lindahl Web Initiatives Manager River Campus Libraries University of Rochester

2. Web Design Process Roles  Content  Design  Usability  Development

3. Web Design Process Overall Design  “Hide the technology”  Consistency with library website  Task oriented pathways  Usability testing program Page Design  Essential components  Prioritize  Simplify  Style guidelines

4.  Universal Design  Section 508  Web Style Guide  Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines  Page Editors’ Checklist “Universal design is the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.” Ron Mace Style Guidelines http://www.section508.gov/ http://webstyleguide.com/ http://usability.gov/guidelines/ http://www.library.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=623

5. Models For Finding: Google 1.Enter keywords 2.Browse results by title and snippet 3.View full text

6. Models For Finding: FRBR FRBR User Tasks  Find  Identify  Select  Acquire FRBR = Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records More information: http://www.ifla.org

7. Web Design Process: Find Articles “Find Articles” project  Ongoing project to address usability issues  Our implementation of meta-search with Encompass

8. Find Articles: Usability Issues  Choosing a database  Using a database  Expectations  OPAC versus database  Terminology

9. Find Articles: Meta-search What is meta-search?  Federated Search  Single user interface to multiple databases  Simultaneous searching across resources  Merged results

10. What the Libraries Did  Invested in meta-search technology  Selected SFX (Linking)  Selected Encompass (XML UI, Catalog integration)  Vendor partnership  Training  User interface development  Technology integration (CF, XML, SFX, SQL)

11. Encompass UI 1.Enter keywords and select databases 2.Select databases or “SHOW ALL” 3.Select a result 4.View metadata 5.Select a full text source 6.View full text online

12. Encompass UI 1.Enter keywords and select databases 2.Select databases or “SHOW ALL” 3.Select a result 4.View metadata 5.Select a full text source 6.View full text online

13. Find Articles UI 1.Enter keywords 2.Select a result 3.View full text online

14. Mapping the Find Articles UI to FRBR Search Select Article Full Text (Gather) FRBR Tasks: Find Identify Select Acquire

15. Find Articles: How It Works Search Select Article Full Text (Gather) Library Web Server ERA Server Subscription Database XSLT User Page with Full Text XSLT XML HTML

16. Meta-search Issues  Speed and Reliability  Connectors  Index vs. Meta-search  Ease of use  Database selection  Abstracts on selection screen  Full text availability  One click to full text  Quality of results  How search terms are applied  Database selection  Relevance sorted results and de-duping

17. Meta-search Standards  Z39.50  SRW/SRU and CQL  OpenURL  NISO MetaSearch Initiative  OAI

18. Find Articles: Subject Clusters  Subject Clusters  Pre-selected databases  Search boxes anywhere  Course Pages  Connects undergrads to library resources  Top-5 resource  Usability success  Add Subject Clusters to Course Pages

19. Web Design Process: Find Articles David Lindahl Web Initiatives Manager River Campus Libraries University of Rochester dlindahl@library.rochester.edu