WorldCat Local and FirstSearch Update

Global Council Meeting November 2013

John McCullough

Product Manager,

Discovery

Strategic Goals for the Year

1. Technology Transition: New, single architecture and interface for FirstSearch, WorldCat Local and worldcat.org.

2. Electronic focus: WorldCat knowledge base and Central index, eBooks

3. Support WorldShare applications: WMS, ILL, Metadata, Analytics

4. Engage the Member Community

Library Engagement

• Monthly • Release updates including “office hours”

• Discussion of enhancements

• Quarterly • Road map/future topics meeting with WorldCat

Local Community (Users Group)

• WorldCat Local Beta • Advisory Group

Moving to a new architecture & interface

Technology Transition

Priestmangoode Moving platforms. http://vimeo.com/25407213

• Adaptive displays for desktop, tablet or mobile use from the same URL

• Staff and public displays, including MARC view for staff

Benefits

• 21st century user interface!

• Consolidated access to databases previously available to Base Package customers (ERIC, GPO, Medline, etc.)

• Local holdings factor into relevance for Cataloging Libraries

• WorldCat knowledge base integration, Link Resolver, and A-Z ejournal and eBook list included for Cataloging libraries

New FirstSearch Value

Screen Shots

• A look at the next year or so…

WorldCat Local Road Map

Beta Migration

Timeline

Feb

• Use WCKB for article holdings

• Availability and fulfilment for local and group level

• Citation formatting & export

• Course reserves for WMS

May

• Local bibliographic data

• Patron recalls & bookings (WMS)

• Google Analytics

• Work set-level availability

Aug

• Availability on brief results (WMS)

• Call no. browse (WMS)

• eBooks for Public libraries

• Improved ‘Did you mean?’

• Knowledge Card

Nov

• Usage-based recommendation engine

• Full-text searching

• ... and more!

2014

• Broadest Central Index • Most Intelligent Fulfillment

• Holds, Availability, Electronic (KB links), ILL • “Easy button”

• User-Friendly Metadata • FRBR, Editions, Works

• Query and Relevance Logic Users Expect • Did You Mean? • Synonyms, plurals, spellcheck, disambiguation, stemming

Competing in Discovery

• eBook Libraries • Integrating provider availability and holds

• WMS Libraries • Availability, Patron Account, Holds, Booking,

Course Reserves

• Groups and Group Catalogs • Resource Sharing

• Electronic Resources

Libraries of Focus

• Known title searching improvements • “Fuzzy” matches

• Usage-based recommendations

• Title, database

• Knowledge Cards

Also Planned for 2014

Knowledge Card

Thank You!