Integrating Federated Searching into Your Information Literacy Curriculum: A How-To Guide

Building on previously published research analyzing federated searching in light of the ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education, the author presents ideas for the integration of federated searching into existing curricula, regardless of learning level.     

数字资源整合检索协议研究

简要地论述了数字资源整合检索的必要性、模式、以及联接方式和联接方法，并详细地介绍了三种数字资源整合检索的协议：Z39．50、OAI、OpenuRL。     

.NET环境下跨库检索系统的设计与检索代理的实现

讨论了跨库检索的产生原因和实现方式，并借鉴元搜索引擎原理，设计了一个跨库检索系统模型，并就其检索代理模块在.NET环境下的实现进行了详细阐述     

PART V: ALTERNATIVES TO CURRENT ACCESS MODELS IN RESEARCH LIBRARIES

Abstract

With the transformation of the card catalog into the online public access catalog came the expectation of its increased functionality. For the most part, today's online catalogs perform an expanded list of tasks quite effectively. Bibliographic utilities, system vendors, and individual libraries continue to improve bibliographic retrieval by providing new and better services through the catalog. In spite of these improvements, many observers believe that online catalogs have reached their maturity. Today's information environment includes a wealth of material to which online catalogs cannot provide universal and up-to-date access. Increasingly, librarians are turning to federated searching portal applications to find a means of managing the flood of digital information that threatens to engulf users. This chapter describes essential functionality of such tools, suggesting directions and strategies for improving them. The author concludes that, while the online catalog will continue to function as the principal tool for access control of the library's physical collections, the federated searching portal will ultimately serve as the library's principal Web gateway to digital resources.     

分布异构资源整合管理系统的技术特点和应用趋势——MetaLib & SFX 综述

Meta Lib和SFX是适用于分布环境下异构资源整合管理的系统 ,能够实现跨库检索和引文链接。文中详细阐述了此系统的开发思路、技术特点、主要功能、存在问题以及应用趋势。希望对国内异构信息资源整合管理系统的开发和应用提供参考。     

数字图书馆数字化文献再处理工具的开发与实践

数字图书馆运用计算机系统管理各种载体文献的加工与服务,通过网络和通信技术支持用户访问数字化文献信息资源。数字图书馆对海量数据的处理能力是保证数据质量、支持与深化数字图书馆服务功能的基础。文章论述数字图书馆中数字文献再处理工具研究的重要性,介绍和阐述已有工作的开展情况,以及结构化的数字文献再处理工具的开发与实践工作。     

用户满意度测评工具在公共图书馆的适用性调整

[目的/意义] 目前公共图书馆缺乏用户满意度的深入研究成果,开展测评工具在这个领域的适用性研究显得尤为重要,对通用满意度测评工具在公共图书馆的适用性进行调整,并探索测评工具适用性调整的可行性思路。[方法/过程] 采用体验式验证方法,从测评工具的逻辑结构、测评量表等级以及样本采集范围入手进行调整。[结果/结论] 用户满意度是服务质量测评的一个重要维度,测评模型与方法直接影响测评结果。测评指标的设置要有针对性,不要刻意地做特殊化设计;调查问卷的难度要适中,测评量表等级以5级为宜;应当减少抽样调查的随机性,适当控制向未成年人发放问卷的数量。     

Meeting Reference Responsibilities Through Library Web Sites

Summary

Among the many ways the World Wide Web has changed libraries are the additional tools gained by librarians and library users for answering reference questions. In addition to the growing number of licensed resources providing the full text of articles from newspapers, magazines, academic journals, and reference works are the millions of free Web sites offering an incredible variety of information about everything. Locating the most useful of these sites and organizing them into categories on library Web sites can be enormously beneficial both to patrons and libraries. After deciding to make their sites reference portals, librarians must make a number of important decisions.     

Search Engines for Tomorrow's Scholars,Part Two

In 2009, the Technology Development Team at the New York-based Information Delivery Services (IDS) Project created IDS Search, a consortial catalog that promoted the group's collection and interlibrary loan features equally with the local collection and local availability. Because the success of IDS Search relied heavily on users fully understanding the different types of availability, the authors conducted usability studies to investigate how well users could determine how to locate materials and understand the availability of items. Eye-tracking analysis was used to determine how well users understood availability, related text, and meanings of terms. The studies found that users had difficulty navigating the functions of the online public access catalog (OPAC) and could not easily differentiate among items that were immediately available, available in a few days, or available online as a preview.     

Searching for a New Way to Reach Patrons: A Search Engine Optimization Pilot Project at Binghamton University Libraries

ABSTRACT

Search engine use is one of the most popular online activities. According to a recent OCLC report, nearly all students start their electronic research using a search engine instead of the library Web site. Instead of viewing search engines as competition, however, librarians at Binghamton University Libraries decided to employ search engine optimization strategies to make their Web site more visible on the search engine result pages. Although search engine optimization is used frequently by commercial Web sites, few libraries have attempted to optimize their own sites. This article describes Binghamton University's experiences in developing and implementing an optimization pilot project. The research presented in this article has importance for libraries who may be considering an optimization project for their own sites.     

WorldCat Local and Information Literacy Instruction: An Exploration of Emerging Teaching Practice

Since the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) unveiled its WorldCat Local library catalog discovery layer in 2008, library instructors have debated how to incorporate this tool into their teaching. WorldCat Local's faceted searching brings both educational benefits and unexpected challenges to the classroom. Instructors frequently hold formal and informal discussions on such topics as which search features are most effective during teaching and which patron groups benefit most from this tool. The authors of this article surveyed instruction librarians at U.S. academic libraries that are using WorldCat Local in order to gather and organize this feedback. This article presents the findings of this survey.     

Assessing the Health Information Needs of Unaffiliated Health Professionals and Using Training on Openly Available Search Tools and Resources to Provide Solutions to Their Information Access Challenges and Barriers

This article will describe a year-long (2010–11) joint project between Columbia University Medical Center's Health Sciences Library and the Institute for Family Health (IFH), a network of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) serving disadvantaged populations in New York State. This National Institutes of Health-funded pilot project aimed to (a) determine the medical literature and training needs of IFH personnel, (b) develop generic licensing agreements with publishers that would enable a health sciences library to provide access to electronic resources for FQHC personnel, and (c) develop reference/education services for IFH personnel. How the reference and education aims were met will be described and discussed here as the lessons learned from this project may be useful to librarians considering doing instructional outreach to unaffiliated health professionals working at FQHCs nationwide.