The Ivy Plus shared Discovery activities at two round robin sessions on Oct. 27 and Oct. 29, 2020. These topics were covered by all or nearly all presenters.
- Adapting to operational changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic
- Presenting HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) links in the discovery system
Brown University: Hector Correa and Cathy Weng
- Upgraded from Solr 4 to Solr7
- Improved CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) language search
- Holdings analytics
Columbia University: Breck Witte
- Blacklight UI changes to simplify actions/options presented to user
- Providing user options for physical items to see item itself or a scan
Cornell University: Huda Khan and Melissa Wallace
- Moved from Solr to AWS
- Using Spotlight for online exhibits
- Linked Data for Pathways project
- Virtual shelf browse
Dartmouth University: Mark Mounts
- Improving access to special collections
Duke University: Maggie Dickson
- Arclight for archival discovery
- Subject headings – remapping outdated, harmful subject headings
Harvard University: Amy Deschenes and Claire DeMarco
- UI research shows importance of making HOLLIS search front and center on library website
- Use of Journey Maps to capture user research
Johns Hopkins University: Alistair Morrison
- Scalable approach to adding links to online items corresponding to print items
- Virtual shelf browse
- Databases List built on FOLIO framework
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: J Darcy Duke
- Taking digitization request via Aeon
- Timdex API to search MIT resources
- Working on computational access to collections
Princeton University: Kevin Reiss
- Developed a Ruby Gem for fulfillment in Blacklight
Stanford University: Sarah Seestone
- Using feature flags in Blacklight
- Showing calendars in Blacklight
- Added more sources to Blacklight search results bento
University of Chicago: David Bietila
- Moving to FOLIO in Summer 2021
- Preparing VuFind for FOLIO migration, paring back modifications
- Using LUNA for digital collections
- Adding Open Access options to search UI
- Developed DOI service used in multiple websites that uses RegEx to detect a DOI entered in search box then sends it to a resolver
- Service dashboard
University of Pennsylvania: Emily Morton-Owens
- Added databases section to bento search result, using Alma records
- Added Colenda digital collections to discovery
- Expert Help widget added to discovery UI that recommends expert based on subjects found in search results
Yale University: Kalee Sprague
- Implementing Article Plus with Summon