Chapter 3. Discovery and Fulfillment

Ted Fons

Abstract


Chapter 3 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 52, no. 5), “Improving Web Visibility: Into the Hands of Readers”

Shares results from surveys on what academic and public library patrons value in the library. It discusses discovery and fulfillment from a user’s perspective, distinguishing between the two, and where the library catalog fits in the process.


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Steve Potash (Chief Executive Officer, OverDrive, Inc.), interviewed by Ted Fons by telephone, 16 November, 2015.

Krista Soria, Jan Fransen, and Shane Nackerud, “Library Use and Undergraduate Student Outcomes: New Evidence for Students’ Retention and Academic Success,” portal: Libraries and the Academy 13, no. 2 (April 2013): 147–64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pla.2013.0010.

Kathryn Zickuhr, Lee Rainie, Kristen Purcell, and Maeve Duggan, How Americans Value Public Libraries in Their Communities (Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, December 11, 2013), http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2013/12/11/libraries-in-communities.

OCLC, Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community (Dublin, OH: OCLC, 2011), 4, www.oclc.org/reports/2010perceptions.en.html.

Merrilee Proffitt, James Michalko, and Melissa Renspie, Shaping the Library to the Life of the User: Adapting, Empowering, Partnering, Engaging (Dublin, OH: OCLC, 2015), 5, www.oclc.org/research/publications/

/oclcresearch-shaping-library-to-life-of-user-2015.html.


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