Discovery Feedback - ULMS August 2018 Meeting

Saved records

• Limits on the total you can save and see

• Check for active cases

Relevancy of results

• Librarians: “a lot of crap comes back.”

  • Mismatch in expectations vs. actual results

• Students don’t seem to complain as much

Known item searching

• Changes to author searching may have negatively impacted this -- “Curious George.”

• Issues with boosting?

• More fundamental issues?

Not all 5XX fields being indexed

• e.g., 546 Language (text entry)

• 041, language leader also

• ‘nai’ for small native American tribes

Resource types

• Audio vs. video and sub-types in the facets

Delays with synching data

• Turning off collections in PCI

• Primo VE to the rescue?

• Availability

Discoverability for when we don’t have a record

• Books and articles

• Recommended options via links

Getting more metadata into PCI

• e.g., MLA with EDS

• Gale metadata with poor linking

U Resolver menu

• Availability is too complex

• Request hidden until you login

Ebsco deep search

• Resource types really limited

• Book chapters, dissertations

• Messes with ILL