Next Generation Discovery

Jenny Emanuel

Digital Services & Reference Librarian

University of Illinois Library

A Little History…

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/

http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/

http://uiuclib.worldcat.org/

http://uwashington.worldcat.org/

How People Search• Understand users terms• Questions of authority• Want full text• Facets/Limit• Boolean• First page• Patience!• Literal searches

Undergrad Research Project

The Future

Jenny Emanuelemanuelj@illinois.edu

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Borgman C. Why are Online Catalogs Hard to Use? Lessons Learned from Information-Retrieval Studies. Journal of the American Society for Information Science [serial online]. November 1986;37(6):387-400. Available from: Business Source Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed March 23, 2010.

Borgman, C. (1996). Why Are Online Catalogs Still Hard to Use?. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47(7), 493-503. Retrieved from Business Source Complete database.

Tennant, R. (2005). "Lipstick on a Pig". Library Journal (1976), 130(7), 34. Retrieved March 23, 2010, from Library Lit & Inf Full Text database.