[Eril-l] Best of Core Forum Webinar: The Greatest Obstacle of Discovery: Assessment of Library Discovery Systems

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Best of Core Forum Webinar: The Greatest Obstacle of Discovery: Assessment
of Library Discovery Systems

Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.



Description:

Discovery products providing a single search interface to library
collections have become industry standard in large academic libraries since
their emergence in the late 2000's. The process and parameters by which
libraries select and evaluate these products is, however, neither
standardized nor well represented in the literature. This presentation
begins to fill in gaps by discussing libraries' procurement processes and
assessment methods including usability studies, drawn from both the
literature and real life. Presenters proceed by offering insights into how
commercial discovery products use more standardized and proven metadata
schemas like MARC, gleaned from mapping metadata for implementations of EDS
(EBSCO Discovery Services) and Primo (Ex Libris). It concludes by offering
a preview of novel research using metadata to benchmark the precision and
relevance of search results from proprietary discovery products,
reinforcing the importance of maintaining the integrity and accessibility
of legacy metadata.

Learning outcomes:

Participants will learn

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   what questions they might ask of potential vendors and users about the
   specifications for a library discovery layer, and what they might need to
   test in the interfaces themselves, including
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   methods for mapping metadata for display and retrieval
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   one SQLite method in Python for benchmarking the precision and recall of
   a discovery product.


Who should attend?

Librarians involved with discovery layers and choosing the vendor for the
discovery layer.

Presenter:

Anne Pepitone is currently the Head of Integrated Library Systems at the
University of Washington. She has been in the Information Technology
profession for 20 years in various positions within higher education. She
holds an MLIS from Simmons University with an emphasis in I.T. Her work at
UW has focused on the administration, user experience, and development of
Ex Libris’ Alma/Primo systems. She has presented widely on the topics of
Discovery Systems and User Experience, totaling 45 presentations over nine
years.

Rich Wisneski is the electronic resources librarian at Miami University. He
holds a Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University, and M.L.I.S. from
Kent State University. His current research interests include user
experience in libraries, discovery layer architecture, and analyzing
rubrics for assessing electronic resource usage and ROI.

Emily Fidelman is currently the Head of Metadata Services at West Virginia
University. She has been serving large public Universities including the
University of Colorado, University of Alaska, and University of North
Carolina in areas related to discovery for just shy of 25 years, with
particular attention to the effect of the open access movement on the
metadata ecosystem.


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Registration fees for webinar:  Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10;
Non-member $79.00

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:

https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1433

Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece at ala.org.

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