From library repository to university-wide service: Stanford Digital Repository as a case study

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Paths of Discovery: Comparing the Search effectiveness of EBSCO Discovery Service, Summon, Google Scholar, and Conventional Library Resources

In 2011, researchers at Bucknell University and Illinois Wesleyan University compared the search efficacy of Serial Solutions Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service, Google Scholar and conventional library databases. Using a mixed-methods approach, qualitative and quantitative data was gathered on students’ usage of these tools. Regardless of the search system, students exhibited a marked inability to effectively evaluate sources and a heavy reliance on default search settings. On the quantitative benchmarks measured by this study, the EBSCO Discovery Service tool outperformed the other search systems in almost every category. This article describes these results and makes recommendations for libraries considering these tools.

MEDLINEplus: building and maintaining the National Library of Medicine's consumer health Web service

MEDLINEplus is a Web-based consumer health information resource, made available by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). MEDLINEplus has been designed to provide consumers with a well-organized, selective Web site facilitating access to reliable full-text health information. In addition to full-text resources, MEDLINEplus directs consumers to dictionaries, organizations, directories, libraries, and clearinghouses for answers to health questions. For each health topic, MEDLINEplus includes a preformulated MEDLINE search created by librarians. The site has been designed to match consumer language to medical terminology. NLM has used advances in database and Web technologies to build and maintain MEDLINEplus, allowing health sciences librarians to contribute remotely to the resource. This article describes the development and implementation of MEDLINEplus, its supporting technology, and plans for future development.

The Research Funding Service: a model for expanded library services

Traditionally, libraries have provided a modest amount of information about grants and funding opportunities to researchers in need of research funding. Ten years ago, the University of Washington (UW) Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center joined in a cooperative effort with the School of Medicine to develop a complete, library-based grant and funding service for health sciences researchers called the Research Funding Service. The library provided space, access to the library collection, equipment, and electronic resources, and the School of Medicine funded staff and operations. The range of services now includes individual consultation appointments, an extensive Web site, classes on funding database searching and writing grant applications, a discussion series that frequently hosts guest speakers, a monthly newsletter with funding opportunities of interest to the six health sciences schools, extensive files on funding sources, and referral services.

Handbook of public service divisions in the University of Illinois Library ...

"A revised edition of College and departmental libraries and reading rooms in the University of Illinois Library, published in February, 1942."

Handbook of public service departments in the University of Illinois Library /

Letter from Lewis C. Branscomb (Assistant University Librarian for public service depts.) precedes main text.

Forestry current literature; an index of books and periodicals on forestry and related subjects received in the Forest Service Library.

Mode of access: Internet.

A list of books of interest to mission study classes, prepared by the department of Library extension service.

At head of title: University of Michigan. Extension division.

Federal aid for education : a history of proposals which have received consideration by the Congress of the United States, 1789-1960 / c Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session. Prepared in the Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress, by Helen A. Miller, assisted by Anne F. McGrath and Maryann D. Ellsworth.

At head of title: 87th Cong., 1st sess. Committee print.

Medical library assistance. Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, first session on H.R. 11223, a bill to amend the Public health service act to extend for three years the programs of assistance for medical libraries. May 22, 1969. May 22, 1969.

"Serial no. 91-13."

Choosing a career; a selected list of material on occupations and careers available at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Originally prepared by te B'nai B'rith Group Vocational Guidance Service, under the editorship of Harold Kramer, director. Now revised and somewhat enlarged by the library staff.

Mode of access: Internet.

Library extension service; package libraries, club-study outlines, library loan, reference service ...

At head of title: ... 1926-1927.

Annual report of the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress for fiscal year ... to the Joint Committee on the Library, United States Congress.

Description based on: 1979.