Gale Technical Solutions: Organizing Electronic Resource Pages

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By Scott Steward

让我们来谈谈组织电子资源页面的一些最佳做法。

It doesn’t matter if you are an academic, K12, public, or special library; if you boil down what we do to its simplest definition, our primary goal is to connect people to information.

Our users are already using tools like Google and Bing in their everyday lives to find information. E.g.Who makes the best cup of coffee? What is the cheapest flight to Las Vegas? What is the carrying weight of a swallow?

门,我们是处于劣势的右出;用户配备了预期,查找信息应该很容易。在希望提供类似的经验,谷歌,许多图书馆建立发现系统。谷歌是一个搜索框,我发现系统有一个单一的搜索框,这将使它更容易为我的用户找到他们所需要的。对?

那么答案是yes和no。虽然我不是说发现系统不是有用的工具,我说,他们不一定使搜索用户更容易。我不想去太深入到有关发现系统的讨论(我会保存为将来的博客文章),但在大多数情况下,并非所有的内容的图书馆订阅被发现。这意味着用户访问某些内容的一种方式,必须到该网站的其他事物的不同部分。此外,发现系统只是撒网到的内容的海洋,其中最有可能将提供结果的用户,他们不需要,不想,或者甚至不理解。这听起来并不高效或容易给我。

That brings me to my first tip: Use context

最大的优点库拥有超过谷歌,必应,或者发现系统为背景。谷歌正在猜测在日常生活事物的背景下更好,但他们都只是猜测。例如,如果我搜索在谷歌“比萨”,它猜测我可能想知道从哪里得到一个比萨饼。它甚至知道我是从法明顿希尔斯,MI搜索,所以它告诉我的餐馆靠近我。如果我做了来自全国其他地区同样的搜索,它会给我不同的结果。所以,谷歌已经采取了一些信息,它知道关于我的(我的位置),然后在我搜索比萨饼的原因猜测。但是,如果我是一个学生写论文,想知道哪里有比萨饼的发明,我简单的比萨饼搜索将是无用的。

Since you know the users you serve and the types of content in your electronic resources, why not help them get to what they need?

For example, if you are a library at a university with an English literature program, put all of your resources that support English literature in one place and provide the professor (and their students) with a link directly to that page. Then, have the professor add the link to the resource page in the student LMS, or even better, provide a single search box (widget) for just the resources that support English literature.

如果你想小部件添加到您的网站,它们下载>>

我们让他们提供,且易于实现,对于大多数我们的产品。对于我上面使用的文献例如,我建议窗口小部件为:Artemis Literary Sources. This will provide a single search box to all the scholarly literary resources you have from Gale. Essentially, a discovery system with context. We also have其他自定义选项that can be explored.

Another example of using context would be organize the resources in a way that the users identify themselves. Once they have told you what type of user they are and what they are looking for, you can provide them with a curated selection of resources that will fit their needs. At Gale, we call these self-identified lists Personas. You cansee an example我们是怎么做到的佛蒙特州在线图书馆。这种工作方式是用户选择的人物角色最好的识别他们,或者他们想要的东西。例如,他们选择的“新闻迷”。提供新闻内容资源的列表被呈现给用户。在这种情况下,这将是通用OneFile和书报摊。

我有好几个小窍门,但让我们离开这里,并在接下来的时间再次回升,到时我会帮你觉得像一个用户。

If you have any questions or comments about what I have discussed so far, leave me a reply below.

As always, stay tuned to the tech channel!

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