Web Design & UX:
Getting to Know Stacks
Heather Wilson: Acquisitions & Electronic Resources Librarian
Tony Diaz: Senior Library Assistant, Geology Library
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Caltech + EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)
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Fall of 2015
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EDS API
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Problematic
interface
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Website
redesign
needed = new
search boxes
needed
Caltech + Stacks
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Stacks came to us
for advice
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Development
partner
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Partnership
agreement
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Ideas and feedback
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Work would have
been resource
intensive
UX Pros and Cons
UX Pros and Cons
Problem #1: Finding unfound citation
Solution #1: Remove the database
Solution #1: Remove the database
Problem #2: Fixing links from EDS
Solution #2: Manipulating Linkouts
Solution B: Manipulating Linkouts
Problem #3: Title not found issues
Investigations into the Surface Strain/Stress State in a Single-Crystal Superalloy
via XRD Characterization
The correct title name does appear at the record level:
Problem #3: Title not found issues
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Filtered page vs record page
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Metadata mismatch
Problem #3: Title not found issues
Solution #3: Title not found issues
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Leave it alone?
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Turn off the database
Solution B: Title not found issues
Stacks...
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Developed this patch
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Prioritized problem (GDPR)
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Configured a customized API call
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Loads on-demand
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Can be requested
Conclusions
1.
Dedicated staff for search
Conclusions
1.
Dedicated staff for search
2.
Reinforcing silos
Conclusions
1.
Dedicated staff for search
2.
May be reinforcing silos
3.
Lack of usability studies for bento approach