Public Interfaces Committee
Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Sterling Memorial Library, Room 411
Present: Dale Askey, Katie Bauer (guest), Julie Linden, Karen Reardon, Andy
Shimp,
Kalee Sprague, Manon Theroux, Tao Yang, Tim Young and Rick Zwies (Notes)
1. Announcements
ELI Interface Implementation Librarian to join PIC
PIC welcomes back Katie Bauer who has accepted the 2-year position as ELI Interface
Implementation Librarian beginning February 23, 2004. As of our March 3 meeting,
she will serve as an ex officio member of PIC. She has already been added to
the PIC e-mail list.
WebTrends Update
WebTrends software arrived and was installed on Kokopelli. Currently working
on building reports with some web logs since summer. PIC will form a small group
to analyze data and design brief narrative reports for distribution.
Updated Special Catalog Page (Tim)
http://www.library.yale.edu/orbis/special_catalogs.html
There is an updated help page for Orbis with information on search strategies,
tracings, catalogs, and printed catalogs with new title: Special Collections
(Additional Catalog Resources).
Combined E-Journals Databases Search
Julie reported on response to the yulpub note asking for feedback on this search.
There was more feedback in favor of the argument for putting Databases on top,
ahead of Journals, in the results list.
One respondent argued against implementing it, saying that databases were never
meant to be searched via keywords and that more keywords would need to be added
to DBOW records in order to fully implement this. We already offer a search for
databases, linked on bottom of the Databases & Article Searching page. PIC
members generally seemed to feel that while DBOW records may not be as full as
they might, adding the databases search to the journals search would do no harm..
2. Journals Search with Orbis Subject Words
http://www.library.yale.edu/journals/indexorbis.html
Background: Karen gave Kalee the ISSN list from the ejournals database. Kalee
queried Orbis to pull the subjects for ISSNs that matched. Karen put those subjects
into the ejournals database.
Issues: One third of the journals are not included, not having ISSN's, and
do not appear in the search results. Can only do one search (for titles) or the
other (for subject words) so a combined search is not yet possible at the moment.
A further concern was raised: having search results including subject words would
not necessarily be helpful for users that are just looking for particular titles.
Possible solutions: Drop-down with "Title" and "Subject"
options for search (default = "Title"), and later adding subject cataloging
for the remaining third. Investigate and possibly work on the combined search.
Action: Karen will find out what are the missing titles are (that lack ISSNs)
and see how relevant they are. Further question for PIC: How we would implement
it in a global search with databases?
3. Contact Us Page
http://www.library.yale.edu/about/contactus.html
Action: Decided to put the links Andrew Gray suggested -- i.e. - to reference
services and borrowing privileges -- and leave the address and phone block for
LAS at the top of the page.
4. Local Subject on Orbis Simple Search Screen
Libraries and departments that use Local Subjects in their catalog records
were asked about the issue of offering a "Local Subject" search on
the Orbis simple search page. There was enough feedback that justified PIC to
reconsider an earlier decision not to include it.
Discussion: Technically not possible to offer the search in a fifth tab. Also,
the Local Subjects index cannot be combined with the regular Subject index; that
is unlikely to be offered in future releases.
Possible solutions: Renaming option "Special Collection Subject"
and add it to the bottom of the multiple choices. PIC should later reconsider
all search options based on statistical evidence (and possibly remove options
like "Ranked Keyword").
Action: Make it so in TOrbis and get feedback. Get stats for usage of these
options when stats become available?
Note: Agenda items "Translating Front Door" and "LSF & Other
Locations in Orbis" were not discussed.
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