Hi Shirley - I'd be interested to speak with you more about your "Google
Scholar Library Links" concept. As to the Google Custom Search concept,
Summon does support that concept and many customers has taken advantage of
it.
I will contact you offline so we can discuss in more detail.
Thanks!
Andrew
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Shirley Lincicum <
shirley.lincicum_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> My library doesn't have Summon yet, but I have attended some webinars and
> searched Summon instances at other libraries. In my mind, one big feature
> that Summon seems to lack is the ability to expose the contents of an
> individual library's index to mainstream search engines, such as Google.
> The
> Google Scholar Library Links approach, where users can encounter links to
> resources available through their library as part of their "regular" search
> results, seems like a real winner to me, but at this point, I don't think
> that Summon helps a library to do that. Am I wrong? Lately, I've been
> contemplating what it might be like if we could build a Summon-like index
> and then slap a Google Custom Search on it. That feels like it would be a
> big step in the right direction.
>
> Shirley
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Andrew Nagy <asnagy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Eric - As I read your email, I can only think about how Summon has
> > answered all of these questions and has brought true resource discovery
> to
> > fruition. Since you raise these questions, you must think that Summon is
> > missing something. What is Summon missing that is not allowing it to
> > resolve these struggles?
> >
> > Andrew
> >
>
Received on Tue Aug 31 2010 - 16:23:36 EDT