ODI “Demystifying Discovery” Video Series - Connectivity With Other Systems

Description

The fundamental premise of a Discovery Service is to provide a single point of access to search and discover a library’s entire collection – including its catalog, journal collection, eBooks, Institutional Repositories, full-text databases, and even its special collections. Very often a given library may have partnerships with other libraries for the purpose of exposing and sharing their respective collections. Ultimately, each library uses a variety of tools, services and platforms to connect and serve these content resources to its end users, and in various cases, to streamline and optimize workflows for library staff. While a discovery service is the tool through which a single search of the library collection is accomplished, it is critical that these discovery services consider that the library’s larger ecosystem must be included. In other words, connectivity and interoperability between and among the discovery service and other library systems is paramount.