Top 10 Academic Library Websites 2013

Here are my favorite library websites for 2013.  I expected this year’s sites to be: Googleable  – I wanted to be able to access library resources and services from anywhere. Searchable – I wanted to be able to search for anything in a single search box.  I did not want to have to navigate lots of menus to…

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Testing web-scale discovery services: how well do they work?

My library is currently evaluating web-scale discovery services. We are considering Exlibris’ Primo, Proquest’s Summon, Ebsco’s EDS, and OCLC’s WorldCat Local. (If you want to learn more about web scale discovery, I recommend Athena Hoeppner’s good overview.) As part of this process I’ve been looking at how libraries have implemented these four services. For this…

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