Present: Peter, Dan, Shawn, Robin, Laura, Fran, Scott, Daisy, Lyman,
Selene, Donna
1. Linksource sampling
Using the find by citation search feature: 75 citations tested by each
of the 4 testers
If success is defined as: Got to either the article, the issue, or at
least the journal with full citation: Scott found 77% worked. In his
opinion the majority of the problems were non-scholarly things (eg
newspapers) in Lexis-Nexis. Also some problem with Open Access. 40-50%
went to the article level.
Shawn was checking title search, title plus ISSN, full citation search.
Problems found: linksource linking back to the Title on the a to z page.
Lyman and Laura saw that too.
Lyman found that Lexis Nexis and Gale did not work very well.
Laura had 41% that were "successful" as defined above.
Lexis nexis may have improved more recently.
They will be meeting soon to aggregate their findings.
What are we going to compare these percentages against? Is this the
industry standard or could we do better with another vendor? Is there
anything in the literature?
Linksource does provide for a way to skip less reliable vendors, but
Shawn reports that this feature often doesn't work.
2. Relevancy Ranked Search
Why didn't we implement this? Let's take a look at this and see if we
can just provide it as an option in the production catalog?
3. Downloading Hathi Trust records
A lot of work. Is there enough interest in this to justify Lyman's time?
4. More info in stacks on what subjects the call numbers correspond to.
We like the idea. The signage project is currently in process. Maybe
this is a good time to pilot something? Maybe Trina can talk to Access
Services?
5. Next OPAC
Started reviewing desirable traits for our next OPAC
Icons to distinguish one type of material from another—we have a few,
we'll keep an eye out when we look at other systems to see if this is
handled better elsewhere for books, journals, and gov docs and
electronic resources.
Boston College Aleph catalog has a locate button with a map.
http://library.bc.edu
From the ASU library catalog you can click on a button and rerun the
search in the CRL catalog.
We'll continue this discussion next week.
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