Kristin Antelman

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The future of library resource discovery

• Kristin Antelman
• March 3, 2006

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Abby Smith The Google announcement was
much like a Rorschach test for the library
community
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Lawrence Lessig Google Book Search is an index
for the 21st century
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John MacColl Book Search ... is splitting the
information atom for our community.
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Mary Sue Coleman today in its infancy and
tomorrow in its infinity
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substitutability
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1995-2004
more than half of ARL librarieshad gt 20 decline
in circulation
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Deanna Marcum When library schools began at
the end of the nineteenth century,
cataloging had a central part in the
curriculum.
But then, so did handwriting.
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Rethinking Bibliographic Services (UC)
Consider ... abandoning the use of
controlled vocabularies for topic subjects
in bibliographic records.
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Resource Description and Access
(2004 - 2008)
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OCLC
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Lorcan Dempsey library resources exercise a
weak gravitational pull
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web 2.0 the web is the platform
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referrals into BioOne at Cornell
90 Google
4 catalog
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indexes
catalog
browsing
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Richard Saller the library is the laboratory
of the humanities and social sciences
42 million
22 years
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indexes
catalog
browsing
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books
articles
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the myth of comprehensiveness
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browse
search
follow cites
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Librarians know how to cope with differences
in coverage between databases, and can modify
strategies based on what they know about a
database . . .
Without this basic information, librarians
cannot recommend Google Scholar.
librarian blogger
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books
articles
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bridge the chasm with search?
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catalog
indexes
browsing
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users look at Google and OPACs
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fast
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easy
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free
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open
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everything is there
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intricate
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little tricks you have to know
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rigid
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takes discipline
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a little maze
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FRBR?
(1997)
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high
medium
low
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journals
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Endeca ProFind
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Endeca project goals
search and browse
keyword relevancy
leverage structured data
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process
architecture
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Endeca-powered keyword search
demo