Presentation given to Oberlin Group Library Directors Meeeting, October 2, 2009

1. the evolution of discovery at Claremont John McDonald Library Claremont University Consortium October 2, 2009 Discovery veryDisco

4. Inefficient acquisitions/collections

6. Strategic Picture Interface High Usability, Intuitive, Robust, Relevant Library Enterprise financial admin student Non Licensed Content Open Web Catalog Digital Library Licensed Content Digital Preservation insurance, recovery, immutability

7. Evaluation Matrix

8. Discovery environment results Major vendors all doing something, but no company or product was doing what we wanted or needed Still opportunity for entrepreneurship Choose ‘best of breed’ to build integrated system Leverage what librarians do best – store, organize, retrieve, display information

9. Vendor Scan

13. Eventually content will be ingested by Summon

14. Primo will be overlaid for the interface and advanced information management features

15. Released Summon in beta form to students at start of Fall semester

17. Primo @ Claremont

18. name: student