{"id":137,"date":"2009-10-30T14:41:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T19:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/?p=137"},"modified":"2009-10-30T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T19:44:48","slug":"new-discovery-interface-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2009\/10\/30\/new-discovery-interface-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"New Discovery Interface Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University Libraries lunched a new discovery interface this week.\u00a0 The interface,\u00a0called DiscoverySearch,\u00a0is\u00a0based on a piece\u00a0of software\u00a0from AquaBrowser a leading vendor in the library marketplace.\u00a0\u00a0 DiscoverySearch looks deceptively simple, but it offers\u00a0a very powerful way to find and access books and other materials listed in the University Libraries&#8217; catalog.\u00a0\u00a0 The beauty of DiscoverySearch derives from faceted searching.\u00a0 Following a keyword search, often a huge number of items display.\u00a0\u00a0With DiscoverySearch, the search results\u00a0can easily be refined.\u00a0 For example, if a search on engineering mechanics pulls up one-hundred books but you just want\u00a0electronic books, a click on a\u00a0facet labelled electronic books changes the\u00a0results to e-format only.\u00a0\u00a0 Other facets such as date, topic, series, and author work in much the same way.\u00a0 A word cloud on the left side of the screen helps\u00a0you locate other related materials\u00a0that may be of interest.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s very nice and will improve your productivity.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ab.lib.ua-net.ua.edu\/\">http:\/\/ab.lib.ua-net.ua.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Libraries lunched a new discovery interface this week.\u00a0 The interface,\u00a0called DiscoverySearch,\u00a0is\u00a0based on a piece\u00a0of software\u00a0from AquaBrowser a leading vendor in the library marketplace.\u00a0\u00a0 DiscoverySearch looks deceptively simple, but it offers\u00a0a very powerful way to find and access books and other materials listed in the University Libraries&#8217; catalog.\u00a0\u00a0 The beauty of DiscoverySearch derives from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2009\/10\/30\/new-discovery-interface-launches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Discovery Interface Launches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[52,50,49,51],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-aquabrowser","tag-catalog","tag-discovery","tag-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}