Friday, May 14, 2010

NFAIS bloggin part V: search technologies p.III

Mike Gorrell, CIO of EBSCO publishing, talking about EBSCO Delivery Service "the Complete Discovery Solution". To EBSCO, discovery means fast, simple access to everything- electronic and print- in the library through a single search box.
In searching, the user experience is predicated on the quality of the content and the ease of discovery- with discovery service, all of the EBSCO subscriptions and databases become available through the discovery service along with the library holdings. The library can download it's catalog to the server that manages its discovery instance and update it frequently to provide near-real-time availability data on its holdings. The service can also add resources that are NOT compliant with federated services- such as Encyclopedia Britannica.

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