A slightly-expanded version of the talk Heather and I gave at the Fall 2007 DLF Forum.

1. Book Discovery in a Mass Digitized Environment Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager, CDL Steve Toub, Bibliographic Services Strategist, CDL

7. Ratings used Room to improve ★ Below par ★★ Getting there ★★★ Very good ★★★★ Everything you could expect to have ★★★★★

10. Find known titles, authors Spotty coverage; full-text hinders ★ Accurate, but hard to select ★★★ If target isn’t first, facets help ★★★ Target is usually first ★★★★ Target is usually first ★★★★ Target is usually first ★★★★ Great relevance; compact display ★★★★★

12. Subject searching Poor coverage; full text hurts ★ Not great ★★ Decent, full text hurts ★★★ Lack of combined index hurts ★★★ Better than average ★★★★ Better than average ★★★★ Great relevance ★★★★★

22. Winnow results No facets or sorting ★ No sorting; facets need work ★★ On the right track ★★★ Facet values are a grab bag ★★★ Tags galore (from tag search) ★★★ Good ★★★ Excels ★★★★

25. FRBR doesn’t help me compare

27. Choose specific edition; compare Even if complete, hard to compare ★ Hard to choose among editions ★ Hard to choose among editions ★ Some good, some less so ★★★ Decent; facets help somewhat ★★★ Decent; compare tool concept is nice ★★★★ Decent; number of holdings help ★★★★

38. Evaluate the item Brief records only ★ Brief records; attempt at reviews ★ A traditional OPAC in this area ★★ Little more than a regular OPAC ★★ Some machine-generated MD ★★ Active community yields results ★★★★ What more would you want? ★★★★★

42. Experimentation: full-text access

43. Evaluate the digital item No full text there ★ No full text there ★ No full text there ★ Good ★★★ Good ★★★ Intuitive navigation ★★★ Replicates physical experience ★★★★

51. Recommendations: more like this No attempt to recommend ★ No attempt to recommend ★ No attempt to recommend ★ Not much better than nothing ★★ Ok; not always there! ★★★ Many options, composite results ★★★★ Many options, high quality ★★★★

57. Obtain a book for local use Buy, buy, buy ★ Limited to download full book ★★ Find at NCSU, borrow (ILL) ★★★ Buy, find in a library, download book ★★★ Many variations on download ★★★ Find in a library, borrow (ILL) ★★★ Buy, find in library, link to swap ★★★

61. Find references to quotes, facts No full text; luck not very likely ★ No full text indexing >1 book! ★ You get lucky occasionally ★★ You get lucky occasionally ★★ You get lucky occasionally ★★ Full-text indexing across books ★★★ “ Popular passages” is potpourri ★★★

63. LT puts thought into linkability

64. Clips in Google Book Search

65. Linkability Opaque identifiers in ugly URLs ★ Text strings in URLs (OL vs. IA) ★ System ID of underlying ILS ★ ISBN option in URL; p= ★★★ ISBN option in URL; clips ★★★★ ISBN, OCLC No. in URL; loc= ★★★★ ISBN option in URL --> Work ID ★★★★

67. API Access Complete API promised ★★★ Complete, documented API ★★★★ Complete, documented API ★★★★ None announced ★ None announced ★ xISBN, xISSN; more soon? ★★ thingISBN, LT for Libraries ★★

75. When book discovery services talk to each other in the background

76. …who will control the interface?