Presentation for vendor webinar, November 20, 2009

1. John McDonald Library Claremont University Consortium November 20, 2009 Sherlock The Summon Experience at Claremont

2. What our users need One-stop shop for library-wide search A comprehensive full text only search

3. What we need Jumpstart innovation Persistent and iterative process

4. Integration of discovery tools 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

5. The Force is with us… Core Team: Sam, Sheree, Candace John Contributors: Charlie, Adam, Gale, Alex, Jason

6. Evaluation Matrix

8. Eliminates federated search

9. Streamlines database selection

11. Content ingested by Summon

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

13. Planned release of additional interface overlay as our Sherlock 2.0 upgrade for Spring semester

15. Will the empire strike back? Librarian cons Content Data problems Coverage of the collection Usability ‘Less advanced’ option Non intuitive/dynamic faceting Native interface algorithms better suited to database content Barrier to entry/understand Expected magical elixir (higher standard being applied)