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DISCOVERY VISION: We strive to design and implement the best possible discovery and delivery experience for our end users using data-driven decision making. We envision a network zone experience that will allow users to discover library materials across UC collections without sacrificing relevant results. As such, the default search and results interface should prioritize the success of typical users while providing additional functionality for more advanced users.

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Updates

All

PPC: Making sure that FGs are transferring MVP items to the Work Handoff sheet

ExLibris offering addition of Alma-D product for additional cost. UC maintains we do not need this product. Discussions ongoing.

Jess working on this

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Finalize Restrict Resource Sharing Restriction Rules by Location decision

All

Made some edits to clarify the questions that arose while consulting with stakeholders:

  • added language re: campuses should be thoughtful and careful of decision whether to use one of these

  • limited the emphasis on Special Collections, which was confusing/muddling some issues to stakeholders

  • Added a background section that outlines the system limitations and the reason these two options.

  • Clarified the Reasoning section and throughout, the user experience rationale for making a decision around restricting resource sharing services in the discovery network.

Recommended label in the yellow, “No Services Available” box: This item may not be available for loan. Contact us for help.”

Need to run by CDL OPS team to make sure the process as described is correct/expected.

Need to sort out mystery of why yellow box is no longer showing up

Need to get campus contacts in place (can send to PPC without this piece in place, keep a placeholder there)

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FRBR & Dedup Discussion

Jess

Last step per ExLibris is to run “prevent FRBR and/or Dedup in discovery job” on a subset of materials. UCSC developed steps we all need to take to run this.

Next experiment is test Law materials. May be able to run this based on location only. Law school campuses will take the lead. UCI has offered to help with this testing process.

  • UCSC ran the job just on audio, not on scores, and that seems to have done the trick. Not clear why, recommendation is for everyone to run the job on just audio also for now.

Further down the road - when digital collections are included, there will definitely need to be FRBR/DeDup work applied to these as well.

  •  @all: Everyone pass along job test steps to our IC team/developers and report back when this is done.
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Check Ins

Discuss updates/problems/testing

All

Revisit Limit by Availability. Getting reports of problems with records that we have no

  • Libguides that were cataloged in the Community Zone and therefore a part of the CDI by other alma/primo institutions, are showing up. One example of extraneous records that we do not want showing up in our users.

  • Some campuses suspect/wonder if part of this issue is driven by database cataloging and other data cleanup underway, and partly because FRBR is off, contributing to a messy overwhelming experience.

  • Ideal to do some User testing once FRBR suppression rules are operational, and perhaps a closer investigation of whether data cleanup is a significant issue, to better understand the user threshold for the experience of finding really extraneous content via the CDI in our discovery network, vs. useful, ILL-able content.

December ExLibris will offer Quick Links, which could be extra duplicative for those with Brow Zine configured. Only 6 providers offering this, but those six likely strong presence in BrowZine. Recommend running this in Sandbox first to see how these play together before turning on in Prod.

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Next Meeting

Prep for next meeting

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Parking Lot/Q&A

Save these issues for future discussion & comments

 

 

  • Usability Testing

  • MVP items for next phase

  • Ebook ILL lending as it relates to discovery and limiting to availability.

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