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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)
Fall of 2015
EDS API
Problematic
interface
Website
redesign
needed = new
search boxes
needed
Caltech + Stacks
Stacks came to us
for advice
Development
partner
Partnership
agreement
Ideas and feedback
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
Filtered page vs record page
Metadata mismatch
Problem #3: Title not found issues
Solution #3: Title not found issues
Leave it alone?
Turn off the database
Solution B: Title not found issues
Stacks...
Developed this patch
Prioritized problem (GDPR)
Configured a customized API call
Loads on-demand
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