Discovery Here, Discovery There: The Pros and Cons of Local & Remote Hosting of Discovery Tools

Abstract

Discovery systems are powerful tools to help users find information resources across the breadth of the library's online holdings. Many of these tools offer APIs for libraries to build their own user interfaces to the search index, allowing a library to keep site visitors within the library until the time they access the full text of a resource. What are the pros and cons of keeping discovery local? This talk explores the user interaction, interface design, and user expectations of such homegrown interfaces.