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Where do you find books?
Where do you find journals?
Where do you find theses?
MARC needs to
die
(yesterday)
What do users want?
I want to find stuff on x
I want to find this journal/book/article
I want stuff for my subject
I want to find items physically in this Library
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Catalogue
Not fit for
purpose
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I want to find
stuff for my essay
Catalogue
(unique items)
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from elsewhere
I’m looking for a journal
or article
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Catalogue
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catalogues
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One Simple interface….
… yet many instances of that interface searching
different subsets of collections for different needs
We’re getting there….
Summon, Primo, Ebsco, Worldcat Local
… but can these replace the catalogue yet?
(hint: probably not).
Chris Keene
University of Sussex Library
Twitter: @chriskeene
Email: chriskeene@gmail.com
/ c.j.keene@sussex.ac.uk