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WorldCat Local and FirstSearch Update
Global Council Meeting November 2013
John McCullough
Product Manager,
Discovery
Strategic Goals for the Year
1. Technology Transition: New, single architecture and interface for FirstSearch, WorldCat Local and worldcat.org.
2. Electronic focus: WorldCat knowledge base and Central index, eBooks
3. Support WorldShare applications: WMS, ILL, Metadata, Analytics
4. Engage the Member Community
Library Engagement
• Monthly • Release updates including “office hours”
• Discussion of enhancements
• Quarterly • Road map/future topics meeting with WorldCat
Local Community (Users Group)
• WorldCat Local Beta • Advisory Group
Moving to a new architecture & interface
Technology Transition
Priestmangoode Moving platforms. http://vimeo.com/25407213
• Adaptive displays for desktop, tablet or mobile use from the same URL
• Staff and public displays, including MARC view for staff
Benefits
• 21st century user interface!
• Consolidated access to databases previously available to Base Package customers (ERIC, GPO, Medline, etc.)
• Local holdings factor into relevance for Cataloging Libraries
• WorldCat knowledge base integration, Link Resolver, and A-Z ejournal and eBook list included for Cataloging libraries
New FirstSearch Value
Screen Shots
• A look at the next year or so…
WorldCat Local Road Map
Beta Migration
Timeline
Feb
• Use WCKB for article holdings
• Availability and fulfilment for local and group level
• Citation formatting & export
• Course reserves for WMS
May
• Local bibliographic data
• Patron recalls & bookings (WMS)
• Google Analytics
• Work set-level availability
Aug
• Availability on brief results (WMS)
• Call no. browse (WMS)
• eBooks for Public libraries
• Improved ‘Did you mean?’
• Knowledge Card
Nov
• Usage-based recommendation engine
• Full-text searching
• ... and more!
2014
• Broadest Central Index • Most Intelligent Fulfillment
• Holds, Availability, Electronic (KB links), ILL • “Easy button”
• User-Friendly Metadata • FRBR, Editions, Works
• Query and Relevance Logic Users Expect • Did You Mean? • Synonyms, plurals, spellcheck, disambiguation, stemming
Competing in Discovery
• eBook Libraries • Integrating provider availability and holds
• WMS Libraries • Availability, Patron Account, Holds, Booking,
Course Reserves
• Groups and Group Catalogs • Resource Sharing
• Electronic Resources
Libraries of Focus
• Known title searching improvements • “Fuzzy” matches
• Usage-based recommendations
• Title, database
• Knowledge Cards
Also Planned for 2014
Knowledge Card
Thank You!