Re: lib-ir: experiment in Scholars' Bank

[Carol Hixson <chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

Glad you like it.

It's possible to have more than one search per page but
the pages would start to get cluttered and, as I said,
we're not trying to be comprehensive. This is also
about as much as we can afford to do right now.

The new version of SB (up on the test site) allows active
hotlinks in the URI field, but otherwise there is no way to
get a hotlink into the record for an individual item.  I don't
think copying and pasting the search string into the URI field
would work - they are too long and would then affect the
display of the item record.

The main idea is to get people who encounter
these collections thinking about the fact that other
resources might be available to them through the library.

Carol

At 08:50 PM 4/10/2006, you wrote:
> interesting. i like it. maybe when we get metasearch up and running, we 
> can link to that. is it be possible to have more than one search on the 
> page? also, for materials that have LC subject headings as keywords (it 
> occurs to me that this may only be the case with items submitted by 
> librarians) for their individual works, could we include a similar link in 
> the individual items? is there any way to do this? that would be nice, as 
> the collections are, by nature, very broad, so a subject search gets a 
> somewhat dizzying amount of information (e.g. "Arts").
>
> cool!
>
> eliz
>
> At 02:06 PM 3/21/2006, you wrote:
> > Joe Janes' talk and some additional reading I've been
> > doing have got me thinking of ways to maximize
> > library services and make the library's presence
> > ubiquitous by making sure that the library is
> > visible in those places where students already are.
> > One article that I found thought-provoking was by
> > Joan Lippincott entitled "Net Generation Students
> > and Libraries" that is available at:
> > http://www.educause.edu/NetGenerationStudentsandLibraries/6067
> >
> > Two sentences from her article got me thinking of
> > something to try in Scholars' Bank:
> >
> > "Some libraries are developing mechanisms to link subject pathfinders 
> > into course management systems for every course at the institution. This 
> > useful strategy brings the information to the place where students will 
> > be actively engaged in academic work. "
> >
> > We already know that Scholars' Bank is being heavily used. Over
> > 4 million hits in the past year. I wanted to see if we could marshal
> > some of that power (that is surely coming from its accessibility
> > on the open Web) and draw people into using other library
> > services.
> >
> > Here's the experiment: I and one of my staff are adding links
> > to all Community and Collection pages in Scholars' Bank that will find 
> > related materials in the library catalog. You can see the pattern
> > we're following if you look at the first few communities in
> > Scholars' Bank. We have constructed either a keyword or a
> > subject search related to the topic of the collection or
> > community and then pasted that in as a hotlink at the bottom
> > of the community or collection page.
> >
> > So, for instance, on the collection page for CultureWork
> > https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/323
> > you will see the link at the bottom of the page that reads:
> >
> > "For more information on the topic of the Arts and society, click
> > here. "
> >
> > It's not comprehensive - nor is it intended to be. It's intended
> > to link our disparate collections in our users' minds - whoever
> > they might be.
> >
> > Thoughts? Reactions?
> >
> > Carol