Chapter 3. Relationship with Discovery

Authors

  • Marshall Breeding

Abstract

Library services platforms are considered in this report as a distinct category of software from discovery services. For many of the products the same organization can offer a product in both categories. This chapter examines the relationship between these products and what issues are involved if a library chooses to use products from different providers. Product pairs considered include Alma and Primo from Ex Libris; WorldShare Management Services and WorldCat Discovery Service from OCLC; and Summon and Intota from ProQuest. EBSCO information offers EBSCO Discovery Service and has not developed a library services platform and instead relies on a strategy of integrating with all resource management systems. Kuali OLE does not include a discovery component and requires that a library address this functionality separately.

Author Biography

Marshall Breeding

Marshall Breeding is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. He is the creator and editor of Library Technology Guides (www.librarytechnology.org), a columnist for Computers in Libraries, and the editor of Smart Libraries Newsletter. He has authored the annual “Automation Marketplace” feature published most recently in American Libraries. Marshall has also edited or authored seven books, including Cloud Computing for Libraries, published in 2012. Formerly the director for innovative technology and research for the Vanderbilt University Library, he regularly teaches workshops and gives presentations internationally at library conferences. This is his twelfth issue of Library Technology Reports.

References

Marshall Breeding, “OPAC Sustenance: Ex Libris to Serve Up Primo,” Smart Libraries Newsletter 26, no. 3 (March 2006): 1, accessed May 6, 2015, http://journals.ala.org/sln/issue/view/370.

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Published

2015-05-14

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 4 (2015): May/June

Section

Chapters