Creating Linkable Subject Bibliographies and New Book Lists in Symphony

Presents methods for creating subject bibliographies and new books lists in the SirsiDynix Symphony Integrated Library System. The links to these bibliographies can be used in other formats, such as library guides and web pages

Enhance and mobilize the library catalog with cloud services

Explores new products and services that make it possible to enhance and mobilize traditional library catalogs

Assessing Use of Two Discovery Services at Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Introduction The Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, at The George Washington University, introduced Health Information @ Himmelfarb, a custom health sciences focused implementation of EBSCO’s Discovery Service (EDS) in the fall of 2012. Less than a year later, the Library Catalog was migrated to Innovative’s Encore. With two different discovery tools delivering some overlapping content and features, librarians wanted to know more about how the two services were being used. Methods A Discovery Task Force completed a staff focus group and a brief demographic survey of Health Information @ Himmelfarb users in spring 2015. All library staff who search the services were invited to the focus group. The demographic survey was embedded in Health Information @ Himmelfarb for three weeks and reached all users who accessed the service at that time. Results The focus group revealed that staff use both discovery tools frequently and use them in somewhat different ways. Some needs were identified for follow up, including better integration of content from the main campus library. The demographic survey had 1,300 responses and confirmed that students were the primary audience for Health Information @ Himmelfarb and that they are using it primarily for class work. Use of Health Information @ Himmelfarb was evenly spread across the three schools Himmelfarb serves (Health Sciences, Public Health, and Nursing), and may indicate a continuing need to include a broad spectrum of resources in the service for searching. A follow up survey to learn more about user satisfaction with the two services is planned for fall 2015

Web-Scale Discovery in an Academic Medical Library: Our Experience with EBSCO\u27s Discovery Service

This poster explores the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library\u27s steps to determine if a highly tailored version of EBSCO\u27s Discovery Service (EDS) aimed at an academic health sciences audience will be an appealing and effective tool for searching the library\u27s collections and to compare its use to that of the library\u27s current federated search tool

Discovery Assessment and Improvement at an Academic Health Sciences Library: Health Information @ Himmelfarb Five Years Later

Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library was an early health sciences library adopter of web scale discovery with introduction of a customized instance of EBSCO’s Discovery Service (EDS) in 2012. After three years with EDS, the library initiated an evaluation project involving two user surveys and a library staff focus group to assess user satisfaction with the service. Resulting changes included introduction of widgets to improve access to clinical content, addition of radio buttons to the search box to make defaults easier to enable and disable, and a custom course reserves search feature. The improvements launched fall semester 2016