Karen is quite right in that I point out that most researchers
begin the research process on Google or one of the other search
engines and not on the library Web site or catalog. I don't
believe, however, that puts libraries out of the discovery
business. If we think of library Web sites as destinations, not
starting points, an important component involves providing an
additional layer of discovery tools. I see a multi-layered
discovery and delivery environment comprised of global,
institutional, and library-specific discovery and search tools.
The global discovery environments, such as Google, Yahoo,
worldcat.org, are not primary content providers. I think that the
library's role as a provider of content and services related to
content is not substantially threatened by increasingly powerful
discovery tools on the global level. In my opinion, if we play it
right, these global tools only serve to drive more users to our
content and services.
I hope that clarifies what I said at the NISO meeting.
-marshall
--On Friday, September 29, 2006 8:25 AM -0500 Marshall Breeding
<marshall.breeding_at_VANDERBILT.EDU> wrote:
> Thanks to Karen,
>
> I'm still on the road and rushing off to give another talk, so I
> don't have time quite yet to write up a summary of the talk I gave
> at the NISO conference. But here is a link to the PowerPoint
> slides
> I used:
>
>
> <http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/breeding/presentations/ni
> so.ppt>
>
> -marshall
>
>
>
> --On Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:54 PM -0400 kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net
> wrote:
>
>> I'm at a NISO workshop on Managing Electronic Collections in
>> Denver, and the opening salvo was Marshall Breeding espousing
>> many of the ideas that have also been expressed here. When his
>> slides are available, I'll post the link. One very interesting
>> meme was his statement that the library catalog is not a starting
>> point, it is a destination. Users will start their information
>> discovery elsewhere, and what we need to do is funnel (you'll see
>> the funnel in the slides) the user's query to the library for
>> delivery. So libraries do delivery more than they do discovery.
>> Well, this isn't very eloquent, so we need to get Marshall to
>> write it up for a better explanation.
>>
>> kc
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