Discovery Assessment and Improvement at an Academic Health Sciences Library: Health Information @ Himmelfarb Five Years Later

Authors

JoLinda Thompson, George Washington University
Elaine Sullo, George Washington University
Laura E. Abate, George Washington UniversityFollow
Meaghan Heselden, George Washington University
Kathleen Lyons, George Washington University

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2018

Journal

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries

Volume

15

Inclusive Pages

7-28

DOI

10.1080/15424065.2018.1433093

Keywords

Discovery services, dynamed plus, ebsco discovery service, electronic resource management, focus groups, full-text delivery, library assessment, link resolvers, survey research, web scale discovery

Abstract

Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library was an early health sciences library adopter of web scale discovery with introduction of a customized instance of EBSCO’s Discovery Service (EDS) in 2012. After three years with EDS, the library initiated an evaluation project involving two user surveys and a library staff focus group to assess user satisfaction with the service. Resulting changes included introduction of widgets to improve access to clinical content, addition of radio buttons to the search box to make defaults easier to enable and disable, and a custom course reserves search feature. The improvements launched fall semester 2016.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries on 04/01/2018, available online:
http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15424065.2018.1433093

APA Citation

Thompson, J., Sullo, E., Abate, L. E., Heselden, M., & Lyons, K. (2018). Discovery Assessment and Improvement at an Academic Health Sciences Library: Health Information @ Himmelfarb Five Years Later. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 15 (). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15424065.2018.1433093

Open Access

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