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Claremont Colleges Library



Claremont Colleges Library

Application and Data
Integration

Claremont Colleges Library

Blaisdell’s

Vision

“My own very deep hope is that instead of one
great, undifferentiated university, we might have
a
group

of institutions divided into
small colleges
-

somewhat on the Oxford type
-

around a library
and other utilities which they would
use in
common
. In this way I should hope to
preserve
the inestimable personal values of the small
college while securing the facilities of a great
university
.”



-

James A.
Blaisdell
, 1923

Claremont Colleges Library

Claremont Colleges Library

Claremont Colleges Library

Collections

Mission

Vision

Goals

Strategies

Tactics

Decline of Print Journals


1st Quartile

Median

2nd Quartile

Claremont Colleges

Amherst College

Davidson College

200
1200
2200
3200
4200
5200
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Claremont Colleges Library

What does that mean?

Vision

Goals

Strategies

Tactics

•
We have lots of stuff but are always exploring ways to expose it!

•
Continue to grow collections & resources

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Leverage discovery systems


•
We need to do a lot with fewer staff.

•
Partner with vendors

•
Choose hosted models

•
Reduce reliance on advanced IT resources

•
Reinforce staff need more advanced skills


•
We are systems integrators, not developers
.

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Identify opportunities as they present themselves

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Understand ourselves and our users (focus on usability & assessment)

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Choose best of breed systems

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Focus on system design, not custom development

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Ensure we can sustain & maintain systems

Claremont Colleges Library

Vision

Goals

Strategies

Claremont Colleges Library

Too many choices

ABI/Inform

Access UN (United Nations Documents Index)

ACM Digital Library

African
-
American Biographical Database

African
-
American Newspapers: The 19th Century

AGRICOLA

AIDS & Cancer Research Abstracts

Almanac of Business & Industrial Financial Ratios, 2002

America: History and Life

American Community Survey

American Humanities Index

American National Biography

American Periodical Series (APS) Online

Anthropology Plus

Aquatic Sciences

Art Full Text

Art Retrospective

ARTbibliographies Modern

Arts and Humanities Search

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials

BasicBIOSIS

Bible in English

Bibliography of American Literature

Bibliography of Asian Studies

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)

Biography Index

Biological Sciences

Biology Digest

BIOSIS

Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts

Black Studies on Disc 2002

Book Review Digest

Books in Print

Britannica Online

Business & Company Resource Center

Business and Management Practices

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

CensusCD

CensusCD Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB)

CensusCD+Maps

Census of Population and Housing

CGU Descartes Web Site

Chemical Abstracts via Scifinder Scholar

Chemical Abstracts via STN Easy

Chicano Database

Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database

Columbia Gazetteer of the World

Columbia International Affairs Online

Columbia World of Quotations

Computer Database

Computer Science Index

Computer Technology

Conference Papers Index

Contemporary Women's Issues

Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae (CMM)

CountryData.com

CPM plus
-

Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library

CQ Library

Craftsman, The

Digital Dissertations

Digital National Security Archive

DiscLit
-
American Authors CD
-
ROM

Dyabola

Early English Books Online

EconLit

Editions & Adaptations of Shakespeare

eHRAF World Cultures (Collection of Ethnography)

Emerald Databases

Encyclopedia Americana Online

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Engineering Index

BioEngineering Abstracts

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)

Environmental RouteNet

Environmental Sciences

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

Equal Employment Opportunity File

ERIC (Education Resources Information Clearinghouse)

E*Subscribe (EDRS)

Ethnic Newswatch

Evans Digital Edition

FactSearch

Factiva

FirstSearch

GenderWatch

General BusinessFile

GeoRefS

Government Periodicals Index

GPO Access

GradSearch

Greek
-
English Lexicon

Gross Product by Industry (for the United States and States)

Grove's Dictionary of Art Online

Handbook of Latin American Studies

HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index

HarpWeek: 1857
-
1872, Civil War Years and Early Reconstruction

Harvard Korean Studies Bibliography

Historical Abstracts

History of Parliament

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

ICPSR Data Archive

IEEE ASPP (All Society Periodicals Package)

IEEE Xplore

Income and Poverty 1995

Income and Poverty 1996

Index Islamicus

Index to Legal Periodicals

ingenta

Inspec

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)

International Index to the Performing Arts

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Key Business Ratios

Kirk
-
Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

Knovel

Online Books & Databases for Engineering and Sciences

Landmark Historical Documents

L'Année philologique

Left Index

LexisNexis Academic

LexisNexis Congressional

LexisNexis State Capital

LexisNexis Statistical

Library Literature & Information Science

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Literature Online

Literature Resource Center

Los Angeles Times, The

MarciveWeb DOCS (Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications)

Market Research

Marriage and Divorce Data Sets

Materials Science

MathSciNet

MEDLINE

Mergent Online

Merriam
-
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

Microbiology Abstracts

Million Dollar Database

MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)

Morningstar

Multiple Cause of Death

Music Index

Musical America

Natality Data Set 1995

National and State Summary Data Tables, 1996

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III

National Health Interview Survey

National Health Interview Survey on Disability, Phase I

National Household Education Survey (NHES)

National Portrait Gallery

National Study of Postsecondary Faculty

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)

National Trade Data Bank (NTDB)

Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

NewsBank Full
-
Text Newspapers

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

OECD Statistical Compendium

OmniFile

Oxford English Dictionary

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International

Palmer's Index to the London Times

PapersFirst

Past Masters

Perinatal Mortality Data File

Periodicals Contents Index

Philosopher's Index

Plant Science

Political Risk Yearbook Online

Polling the Nations

Popline

PrimateLit

Proceedings (ProceedingsFirst)

PsycINFO

PubMed

RAND California

Research Insight

RILM
-

Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale

RISM
-

Repertoire International des Sources Musicales

RLIN

Roper Center

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and Teacher Follow Up Survey (TFS)

ScienceDirect

Scifinder Scholar

Sociological Abstracts

SourceOECD Statistics

SPIN Database

Standard & Poors Net Advantage (Industry Surveys & Stock Reports)

STAT
-
USA

State Personal Income, 1929
-
1998

STN Easy (Access to Chemical Abstracts)

Survey of Current Business

Thomas

Times Literary Supplement

Toxicology Abstracts

Toxline (NLM)

United States Naval Aviation

United Nations Common Database (formerly UNSTATS)

USA Trade Online

Valueline Investment Survey Online

Water Resources RouteNet

Web of Science

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals

Westlaw Campus

WilsonSelectPlus

Women Writers Online

Women's Studies International

World Almanac

WorldCat

World Development Indicators

World News Connection

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Hoovers

Shepards

National Criminal Justice Research Service

Education Full Text (OmniFile)

VentureXpert Web

General Science Abstracts (OmniFile)

Humanities Abstracts (OmniFile)

Readers Guide Retrospective (OmniFile)

Social Sciences Abstracts (OmniFile)

Science Citation Index

Social Science Citation Index

International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) Online

CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Britannica Enciclopedia Universal en Español

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans

Biological & Agricultural Index Plus

Latino Literature

Women and Social Movements in the United States

Faulkner's Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS)

Historical Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times, Historical

Politics in America

CQ's Politics in America

Grove Music Online

Mogadoc

Descartes Web Project (CGU)

ARTstor

WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)

AccessScience

Current Index to Statistics

United Nations Treaty Collection

Past Masters: Women Writers

Women Writers

JSTOR

Naxos Music Library

Project MUSE

Muse

Birds of North America Online

AnthroSource

Marquis Who's Who

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw
-
Shoemaker

Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690
-
1876)

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective (Omnifile)

Dictionary of National Biography

HeinOnline

U.S. Serial Set

Social Services Abstracts

Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870
-
1886

Serial Set

Gerritsen Collection
-

Women's History Online

Patrologia Latina

Periodicals Index Online

Engineering Village 2

Google Scholar

Reference USA

Defining Gender, 1450 – 1910

CiteSeer.IST

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

Digital Sanborn Maps for California (1867
-
1970)

Academic Search Premier

Business Source Premier

Regional Business News

Current World Information Knowledgebase

Historical Statistics of the United States

Clements Encyclopedia of World Governments

Book Review Digest Retrospective

Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

Encyclopedia of Global Change

International Encyclopedia of Linguistics

Blais

NetLibrary

Wall Street Journal

International Financial Statistics

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Alternative Press Index

Alternative Press Index Archive

Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)

EastView

Russian UDB
-
EDU

Black Studies Center

Book Review Digest Plus

Current Protocols in Protein Science

Current Protocols in Pharmacology

Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry

Current Protocols in Molecular Biology

Emerald Databases A
-
Z journal listing

Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL)

CensusCD Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB) (online web version)

Estimates 2006 & Projections 2011

PsycEXTRA

Investext

Cross
-
National Time
-
Series (CNTS) Data Archive

Chicago Manual of Style Online

China Data Center

Iter: Renaissance and Reformation

Historical New York Times

Orbis

Osiris

BankScope

Mint Global

Times Digital Archive 1785–1985 (The Times of London)

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)

ABELL

Dissertations & Theses

Black Thought and Culture

Global Development Finance (GDF Online)

Encyclopaedia Judaica

Caribbean Literature

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

Everyday Life & Women in America, c.1800–1920

Women in the National Archives

Biological Abstracts

International Medieval Bibliography

Eighteenth Century Journals

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science

China Academic Journals

Derwent Innovations Index

SocINDEX with Full Text

LexisNexis Congressional Hearings

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports

Serials Set

Statutes at Large

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Faculty of 1000 Biology

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Encyclopedia of Religion

New Catholic Encyclopedia

Latinobarometer

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an

Literature Criticism Online

Thomson ONE Banker

KISS (Korean Studies Information Service System)

Teacher Reference Center

Online Archive of California

OAIster

Oxford Music Online

Oxford Art Online

Credo Reference

Oxford African American Studies Center

PsycBOOKS

Smithsonian Global Sound

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

Market Research

Ancestry

Balance of Payments Statistics

Direction of Trade Statistics

Mintel Market Research Reports (Mintel Oxygen)

SimplyMap

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music

Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

Harvard Dictionary of Music

Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections

indiastat

Dolley Madison Digital Edition

Papers of George Washington Digital Edition

LAPOP – Latin American Public Opinion
Project

UNdata (formerly UNCDB)

ITERATE

African American Experience

Latino American Experience

Keesing's World News Archives

AP Images

RCLweb — Resources for College Libraries

Opera in Video

Dance in Video

Theater in Video

IPA Source

Global Financial Data

Database Use

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15000
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45000
PsycINFO
JSTOR
Web of Science
Academic Search Premier
LexisNexis Academic
WorldCat
MLA International Bibliography
…
OmniFile
PubMed
Dissertations & Theses
Naxos Music Library
EconLit
ERIC (Education Resources
…
ATLA Religion Database with
…
Grove Music Online
ABI/Inform
Oxford English Dictionary
Philosopher's Index
PAIS (Public Affairs Information
…
World Development Indicators
Google Scholar
America: History and Life
Sociological Abstracts
Historical Abstracts
Humanities Abstracts (OmniFile)
Digital Dissertations
Art Full Text
Biological Abstracts
Education Full Text (OmniFile)
Business Source Premier
Factiva
Hoovers
MathSciNet
Women's Studies International
Westlaw Campus
Early English Books Online
Investext
ARTstor
LexisNexis Statistical
Historical New York Times
Hits
Hits
Claremont Colleges Library

Claremont Colleges Library

Discovery Project Timeline

•
Spring 2009 Project start

•
Summer 2009 beta in
-
house tests

•
Fall 2009 Primo and Summon betas are live

•
Winter 2009 Integration of products

•
Winter 2010 in
-
house tests

•
Spring 2010 Sherlock live

•
2010: train, test, tweak

Claremont Colleges Library

Claremont Colleges Library

Staff Surveys

•
I
'm
not clear about the purpose and differences between these
products


•
I
haven't seen Primo at all yet
-

what does it do?


•
what's
the point? what are the advantages? how will this make our
students study/write better and therefore learn more?


•
What
is it, how do you use it best, when is in not appropriate, when
is it most appropriate, are there types of searches that do not work,
will it replace all of the intelligent databases that we currently use,
are we
dumbing

down all of the research skills that are so helpful in
life that we try to teach, are there lessons that can be learned from
search engines such as Sherlock
-

and are these lessons we should
be teaching, are these tools going to assist in doing the best
research possible, or just in doing a 'good enough' job, can I feel
confident in loving this tool?


Claremont Colleges Library

Staff Education

•
Perform various searches and tasks in both Summon and Primo

–
Subject

•
Title Known title

•
New title

–
Author Known Author

–
Partial Author Information

–
Known journal article (Summon only)

–
Known book

–
U
nknown resource on known paper topic

–
Simple search and advance search

•
Delivery

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Email, Export to Citation manager, Print

•
Rate your satisfaction

•
What would make you and a personae very satisfied

•
Compare and Contrast Primo and Summon



Claremont Colleges Library

Discussion

1.
How well does the relevance ranking algorithm perform
on subject(x)?

2.
How do we determine that?

3.
Is it bad/confusing for the patron to have different subject
facet terms appear for each search? Or is it quite good?

4.
How well does it work with
EndNote
,
RefWorks

(well!),
Zotero

(not well!)

5.
What are the key concepts in Primo?

6.
How is Sherlock alike and different from other databases?

7.
How will Sherlock help students?


Claremont Colleges Library

Staff Survey
Redux

•
Results
usually include one or two precise answers and thousands of irrelevant retrievals, or
relevant ones way too far down in the list to get to
-

also
-

too many newspaper articles come
up first.


•
I
used Primo last night to look for books by an author. I compared the results to
Blais

and
found out we just didn't have much. Primo was a little easier to use
-

it accepted the search
terms with diacritics.
Blais

found nothing and suggested "Did you mean"
without anything.

•
Sherlock was
easy to use and I like how it gathers all of the sources of the library into one list.
The only drawback for me was all of the articles that's included but then again if you only
want to look at books, there is a link for that
.

•
When
helping patrons with their research recently, we would do searches in an appropriate
database and then discuss findings. After we would do the search in Discovery. The students
were very excited at the number of hits, although when they looked closely they noticed that
many were duplicates, and many were not exactly right (sort of like a
google

result!).
However these discoveries did not bother them, they were still very happy with the results.


•
Searching
for material related to Bram Stoker and his involvement with an occult order called
the "Golden Dawn". Found lots of relevant material and found the system much easier to
use than searching individual databases. Very satisfied with the results.


Claremont Colleges Library

Claremont Colleges Library

Summary

1.
Library Staff have moved from firmly against
to mostly supportive, with a few notable
exceptions.

2.
Faculty have voiced approval

3.
Students have voiced approval

4.
Web site redesign will make search the main
focus of the home page.

5.
Next: ingest and index
business documents.


Claremont Colleges Library

We are systems integrators…