Met alle postjes over ebooks en ebookreaders zou je zowat denken dat ik geen papieren boeken meer lees maar niks is minder waar. Het Mediacentrum van Windesheim gaat dit jaar ook aan de slag met federatief zoeken en hoewel ik er wel iets van meen te weten, kan het nooit kwaad om even bij te lezen over dit onderwerp en dat was goede timing aangezien er ‘net’ een boek is uitgekomen over dit onderwerp in relatie tot bibliotheken.
Uitgever Haworth Press heeft dit te melden over het boek:
Understand federated searching implementation better—and what works best in your library
Federated
Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services is a
comprehensive guide to choosing, implementing, testing, teaching, and
marketing federated search products in libraries. Experts in the field
and librarians across the United States provide firsthand information
on using federated search engines in different types of libraries
(small, academic, and consortia), integrating search engines into
library Web sites, homegrown upgrades, bidding on a product, other uses
for software, and the future of federated searching.
Federated
Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services explains what
factors come into play when choosing which federated search engine is
appropriate for a library. This helpful resource discusses how to go
out to bid for a product and provides a variety of case examples that
illustrate implementation in libraries of different sizes. The book
also includes information of what happened once federated search was
implemented on various campuses, such as usability studies, teaching
issues, getting buy-on from librarians, and marketing to students.
Topics discussed in Federated Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services include:
- implementing federated search in different types of libraries
- why some libraries choose NOT to implement federated searching
- usability testing of federated search product implementations
- teaching issues with federated search products
- marketing to library users
- integrating federated searching into library web sites and existing services
- homegrown federated search upgrades
- the future of federated searching in libraries
Federated
Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services is an essential
source on federated searching in libraries for librarians from any size
or type of library.
Ik denk niet dat ik dit pilletje van 450 pagina’s deze week uit heb maar hij gaat zeker mee de trein in de komende periode.
