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Making Search Engines Notice: An Exploratory Study on Discoverability of DSpace Metadata and PDF

This study analyzed the search results of four main Internet search engines on three newly created digital collections at Texas Tech University Libraries, in order to assess the search engine indexing on metadata and PDF files of digital items that…

Tags: Digital Collections, Digital Repository, DSpace, Internet Discoverability, Metadata Indexing, PDF Indexing, Search Engine Discovery

Position: 168 (535 views)

All that Glitters Isn’t Gold: The Complexities of Usage Statistics as an Assessment Tool for Digital Libraries

Digital collection assessment has focused mainly on evaluating systems, metadata and usability. While use evaluation is discussed in the literature, there are no standard criteria and methods for how to perform assessment on use effectively. This…

Tags: Digital Collection Assessment, Digital Collection Evaluation, Digital Repository, DSpace, Institutional Repository, Use Statistics, Web Analytics

Position: 292 (487 views)

Know Your Crowd: A Case Study in Digital Collection Marketing

Digitized special collections and institutional repositories present unique challenges to libraries struggling to identify marketing strategies that will entice patrons to these services. These collections, which do not have the same mass appeal as…

Tags: Digital Collections, Digitization, Library Services Marketing, Marketing

Position: 240 (502 views)

Primer on Building Library Mobile Website

This paper aims to help libraries develop the mobile web. It focuses on practical techniques and skills, showing in detail how to build a mobile web from scratch, and how to perform testing. It contains code examples from the author, and provides…

Tags: Auto-detection, Library Information Technology, Miniaturize, Mobile Web, Mobilize

Position: 198 (522 views)

Searchability and Discoverability in Library Resource: Federated Search and Beyond

This article reviews current federated search and discovery products. The authors propose that federated search and discovery services are vital tools to increase searchability and discoverability of library resources, and that they are particularly…

Tags: Database search, Discoverability, Discovery Services, Federated Search, Metasearch, Searchability, Unified Index

Position: 185 (528 views)

The Next Generation Integrated Library System: A Promise Fulfilled?

The adoption of integrated library systems (ILS) became prevalent in the 1980s and 1990s as libraries began or continued to automate their processes. These systems enabled library staff to work, in many cases, more efficiently than they had in the…

Tags: 1980s, 1990s, Changing needs, Integrated Library Systems (ILS), Next Generation System

Position: 278 (491 views)

Implementation and Application of CORAL: An Open Source ERM System

With the rapid increase of electronic databases, e-journals, electronic books, and digital collections in libraries, managing electronic resources is also becoming complex and challenging.

Tags: CORAL, Electronic Resources Management Life Cycle, Electronic Resources Management System, ERMS, Licensing, Usage Statistics

Position: 464 (430 views)

Why Are Websites Co-linked? The Case of Canadian Universities

Position: 514 (404 views)

The State of Wireless Laptop Lending Programs: A Survey of Academic Libraries

Purpose – This paper seeks to learn, by way of a survey, what librarians at US colleges and
universities were doing and the issues they were encountering as they considered, developed, or
maintained wireless laptop computer lending programs (WLLP)

Tags: Academic Libraries, Internet, Laptops, Lending services, United States of America, Wireless

Position: 98 (583 views)

A University Library Laptop Lending Service: An Analysis
Using Two Student Surveys

Purpose - This paper aims to report on a study of an academic library's wireless laptop lending service. The authors believed that the unexpectedly low usage level of the Monmouth University Library's Laptop Lending Service (LLS) could best be…

Tags: Computers, Laptop Lending Service, Lending services, Monmouth University, University libraries, Wireless

Position: 128 (557 views)

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