Discovering the Resource Mining Experience in your Library

What is it about?

Today, with the advent of information technology integrated with each other, NTU Library’s has a vast field of information and resources across the access for patrons to discover. NTU Library has made progressive improvement on the library catalog, showcasing more than 775,000 books in the physical collection. And, this is growing at about 22,000 volumes per year. In addition, strategically align to the model the library’s technology and systems at NTU Library. They has built and maintaining seamless access to retrieve more than 110 databases and journals across her subscription. In addition, they have also created more than 30 subject guides to create viral knowledge awareness into the online community, showcasing, sharing and guides on the collection resources that they have. As each year, the resources in the library grows, discovery relevant desired resource would be a tough task for the patrons. Even though, the library catalog is still one of the key assets, today. On the other hand, patrons (students and scholars) begin routinely bypass library catalogs, in favor to other discovery tools to search, scan and retrieve their desire information needs. Thus, making catalog to be decline, with its processes and structures start to face unsustainable and change needs to be swift to bring back the traffic of usage. In addition, for the technology librarians the widespread expansion of digitization projects, ubiquitous e-journals and the raise of e-book added to the pressure. Thus, in this paper, the technology and system librarians shares their experience in implementing a web tool for discovering the resource mining in NTU Library – The Web Discovery Tool. Here, the team shares on the need of web discovery tool, the choice and administration of the tool, the strength and capability of the discovery tool the challenges of the discovery tool and the return of investment in implementation of the discover tool. Along side, sharing out in the attribute of new media built into the tools and helps the patrons’ learning and research in locating resource effectively and efficiently.

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