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Status

IN PROGRESS

Scope

IMPLEMENTATION

Description

Decide how to handle WorldCat scope. Harmonize? If so, how?

Decision

See below

Owning group

Discovery FG Josephine Tan and Jess Waggoner, co-chairs

Approver

n/a

Stakeholders

R = Discovery FG
A = Discovery FG
C = SILS WG, Resource Management FG, Fulfillment & ILL FG
I = Cohort, All staff (SILS News)

Decision-making process

Review

CONSULT:

  • Local

RECOMMEND: Discovery FG will recommend

Priority

Mandatory before Go-live

Due date

TBD

Recommendations

Reasoning

In progress.

Environmental Scan

In progress.

Example libraries:

Background

  • Melvyl-like functionality for ILL is a desired feature - especially for books not held in the UC system.

  • WorldCat results can be “blended” with other results; however, it doesn’t work as smoothly as we’d like.

Dependencies

Work with Resource Management FG

Questions to consider

  • User needs. How much will our researchers appreciate the ability to start an ILL directly from the Primo interface?

  • Common use scenarios. How do our researchers use WorldCat searching, and how well are they supported by including a separate WorldCat scope or including WorldCat records in a blended search?

    • Example scenario: WorldCat (on campuses that do not use WC Discovery) is used frequently by more advanced researchers looking for a known item that’s not available on their campus. So, for example, a search for older, more unique monographs.

  • Quality of WorldCat-only search . Primo’s search functions for WorldCat data are significantly worse than WorldCat for precision searches. (Other libraries, e.g. Northwestern, have handled this by providing a link to WorldCat instead of using Primo.)

    • No facets display in Primo.

    • No fielded searches in Primo, e.g. in WorldCat you can search ti:[title term] au:[author name] (but Advanced Search does work with the WC search profile)

  • Quality of blended search. How well does it work?

Action Log

Action/Point Person

Expected Completion Date

Notes

Status

Each Disco FG member: get feedback from local group on WorldCat search profile

15 Jan 2021

complete

Disco FG: perform environmental scan that 1. reviews choice (separate, blended, neither and point to WorldCat) and 2. reviews functionality

Disco FG: confirm common use scenarios

  1. WorldCat in search profile scope: UCSD, UCSC, UCSF

  2. WorldCat only in Advanced search: UCB, UCSB

  3. WorldCat icon in results facet (Northwestern model seems to be 1 +3 ;and UCSF may do this)

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