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Discovery Systems in 2020: Issues and Trends

Home / Topics / Information Access & Retrieval / Discovery Systems in 2020: Issues and Trends

March 25, 2020

William Mischo
Berthold Family Professor in Information Access and Discovery
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Michael Norman
Discovery Services Librarian and ILS Coordinator
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tom Cramer
Associate University Librarian &. Director, Digital Library Systems & Services. Chief Technology Strategist
Stanford University

Lorcan Dempsey
Vice President, Membership and Research, Chief Strategist
OCLC

Library discovery and content delivery systems continue to evolve. While there has been a consolidation of systems in the web-scale discovery vendor market, a number of academic libraries have explored various mechanisms to enhance discovery. Many of these systems center around the bento-style discovery approach in which search results are partitioned into separate screen result zones (bento boxes) with retrieved content grouped by format or service type. The bento approach, presently adopted by some 42 libraries, is designed to address identified problems with web-scale systems and better meet user needs by optimizing known-item searching, streamlining full-text access, and providing local services, content, and subject specialist referrals. This panel will discuss current trends and issues in discovery systems, including a description of value-added full-text linking features, user behaviors and needs identified by transaction log analysis, the implementation of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in discovery, and plans by the Big Ten Academic Alliance for a collective collection system. The recent OhioLINK/Ithaka white paper on user-centered library systems and the concept of “full library discovery” will also be discussed.

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Last updated:  Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020

 

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