Thanks to all who attended, online or in person, to the Library’s third Rediscover Discovery Day! The goal for this presentation is to provide updates on our major discovery interfaces to public services, instruction, and information desk staff so that they can incorporate the most current information on our discovery systems into their instruction sessions in the coming semester.
This session covered recent updates to features and functionality for:
We also shared the some of the upcoming changes in store for these discovery systems as well. A big thank you to Angela Sidman for covering the recent and upcoming developments in Articles+ and other e-resource access systems!
For those who attended or viewed online, or for those who will watch the recording afterwards, please take a few minutes to let us know how we did: http://tinyurl.com/rediscodisco3
The second annual Ivies+ Discovery Day took place at MIT in Cambridge, MA on July 25th 2016. Representatives from many of the Ivies+ libraries attended, including four librarians from Yale: Jenn Nolte, Sarah Tudesco, Angela Sidman and Kalee Sprague.
The day started off with a keynote address on discovery and serendipity from MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg. Following that, Laura Morse from Harvard presented on updates from the Open Discovery Initiative, a NISO committee of which she is co-chair.
The later part of the morning then shifted into a ’round robin’ of 5 minute demonstrations followed by 5 minutes of Q&A from eleven Ivies+ institutions. Each institution’s demo focused on their own particular discovery landscape. Some were at the beginning stages of implementation, others showcased the enhancements they’ve rolled out since the first Ivies+ Discovery Day in April 2015. Angela Sidman and Jenn Nolte demonstrated Yale’s unified discovery service, Quicksearch– which wasn’t even publicly available at Discovery Day last year!
After a lunch break, 2 consecutive breakout sessions followed with simultaneous presentations. The topics and slides for these are up on the Ivies+ Discovery Day website. Of particular note were presentations on discovery-related work at Yale University Library:
The day ended with a fun and interactive session involving all attendees, with the goal of articulating and prioritizing collaborative efforts among Ivies+ institutions with regard to discovery. Attendees were given sticky notes to write down ideas for collaboration, and each attendee also received five stickers to vote on the ideas they liked the most. The notes from that exercise are also linked on the Ivies+ Discovery Day website.
The second Ivies+ Discovery Day was fast-moving, full of great information and great colleagues from across the Ivies+ universe. We attendees from Yale were very grateful for the excellent job our colleagues at MIT did in organizing the event, and look forward to Ivies+ Discovery Day 2017!
On Wednesday September 21st, from 3pm-4pm in Bass L01, join Library IT and partners in our monthly discussion of tech-related projects around the Library and beyond.
Our tentative agenda includes:
Hathi Trust (Robert Klingenberger)
YUL and Accessibility (Kalee Sprague and Tracy MacMath)
Service Now (Beatrice Richardson)
Avalon for Music Library (Cindy Greenspun, George Ouellette and Jonathan Manton)
For those who cannot join us in person, the session will be streamed via Adobe Connect:
The Quicksearch Advisory Group was formed this July to guide and promote the ongoing operation and development of Quicksearch. The group will act on behalf of all Quicksearch stakeholders by defining and prioritizing the ongoing development, configuration, integration, and support of this important service.
Committee members include: Gwenyth Crowley, Ellen Cordes, Moira Fitzgerald, Emily Horning, Jordan Jefferson, Suzanne Lovejoy (co-chair), Youn Noh, Danielle Ray, Angela Sidman, Laura Sider, and Kalee Sprague (co-chair).
Everyone is welcome to contact the committee with feedback, either by contacting committee members directly, or through the ‘Feedback’ link in the Quicksearch header and footer.
Do you have content in blacklight? Do you have content in other silos? Would you like to create dynamic exhibits and/or collections? Would you like to manage content, display, search, and facets in a highly configurable online interface? If you answered yes to any of this, welcome to Spotlight!
“Spotlight is open source software that enables librarians, curators, and other content experts to easily build feature-rich websites that showcase collections and objects from a digital repository, uploaded items, or a combination of the two. Spotlight is a plug-in for Blacklight, an open source, Ruby on Rails Engine that provides a basic discovery interface for searching an Apache Solr index.”
Exhibit page content can be directly tweaked from the browser.
On August 9th and 10th the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and Yale Library hosted the event “Spotlight on Spotlight”. We were pleased to have members of the Spotlight team here to give a full demonstration, Q&A, and developer unconference. Stu Snydman, Gary Geisler, and Chris Beer from Stanford, and Trey Pendragon from Princeton lead the sessions. The main demonstration Tuesday morning included a brief history, a review of the initial use cases, context surrounding the platform, and walk throughs of the application and its features. In the afternoon the Q&A session provided a further chance to answer questions collected from the morning presentation and a live conversation. On Wednesday developers stood up individual instances of the application, exercised its extensibility using the DPLA API to import content, and held further technical discussion. After attending the event Steve Weida, Yale Library Webmaster commented, “Spotlight is exciting technology and has matured at a very impressive pace. Along with our commitment to Omeka, Spotlight could play a key role in the future of the Library’s web presence.”
This Friday August 19th, attend the Library’s third Rediscover Discovery session!
The session is aimed providing updates on our major discovery interfaces to public services, instruction, and information desk staff so that they can incorporate the most current information on our discovery systems into their instruction sessions in the coming semester. This session will cover recent updates to features and functionality for:
Articles+
Quicksearch
Digital Collections (FindIt)
We will also share the some of the upcoming changes in store for these discovery systems as well.
Join us on Friday August 19th, from 2:30-3:30pm in Bass L01 A&B for our third Rediscover Discovery event. Sign up to attend the event in Bass in person here: http://schedule.yale.edu/event.php?id=1146001
Alternatively, you can watch live online at http://greet.yale.edu/rediscodisco. The event recording will also be distributed after the session is over.
On Wednesday July 20th, from 3pm-4pm in Bass L01, join Library IT and partners in our monthly discussion of tech-related projects around the Library and beyond.
Our agenda includes:
Avalon for Music Library (Cindy Greenspun and Jonathan Manton)
Desktop video conferencing pilot (Beatrice Richardson)
UPDATE: The service disruptions, which ended up being campus-wide, have been resolved. Thank you for your patience as Library IT and Yale ITS worked to diagnose and resolve these issues!
We are experiencing some disruptions related to authentication in the following services:
Special Collections at Yale (Beinecke and MSSA Aeon queues)
FindIt (Digital Collections search)
BorrowDirect sign-on
ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan)
Campuspress (Yale blogging platform)
Box
E-resource authentication pages
Other applications that may be using the Shibboleth authentication service
Library IT is aware of the issue and is looking into the cause. We will keep you updated on the status of these services and let you know when they are restored.
Until then, Library IT staff will also provide status updates to this list as necessary. You can also monitor status availability in real time here:
Jason Eiseman, Head of Technology at the Lillian Goldman Law Library, recently completed a cross-training Internship with Library IT.
The two-part focus of the internship was to learn more about the Quicksearch project, and more about how Library IT does its work in general.
The cross-training experience was a great success.
Jason worked on making a number of links in Quicksearch open in new windows, updated a MARC analysis spreadsheet and improved MARC tag mapping in Quicksearch, and assisted in checking and enhancing some of the Quicksearch documentation. Most importantly, he developed a new Rails app that improved the connection between Quicksearch and the law library’s MORRIS catalog.
If you would like more information, Jason will be doing a presentation on his internship at the Tech Talk on August 17th.
It was a pleasure for all of us to work with Jason, and we look forward to collaborating with him in the future!
The Quicksearch Implementation team and Library IT are happy to announce that collections from the Findit digital repository are now available in Quicksearch!
You can view digital collections in Quicksearch by going to the library front door at http://web.library.yale.edu, or directly to the Quicksearch main page at http://search.library.yale.edu, and searching for a term like “Andy Warhol”.
Three result bento boxes now display, Books+, Articles+, and Digital Collections.
Clicking on the “See xxx results” link in the Digital Collections bento box, or the “Digital Collections” facet in the left hand menu, will bring you to the full Digital Collections page. The Digital Collections page provides facets that match the facet functionality in Findit. Clicking on a title link will bring you into the Findit interface.
