ACEF

Une étude internationale sur les résolveurs de liens vient d’être lancée par Marshall Breeding. La seule condition pour y participer est d’avoir au préalable référencé sa bibliothèque dans le lib-web-cats, un répertoire international de bibliothèques. Le nombre de bibliothèques françaises n’y étant pas particulièrement élevé, c’est aussi l’occasion en s’y référençant de s’abonner aux news du Library Technology Guides, un site incontournable pour se tenir au courant des développements dans le domaine des solutions pour les bibliothèques. Marshall Breeding lance par ailleurs chaque année une étude de satisfaction sur les SIGB. Les résultats de cette 5e édition (Perceptions 2011) ont été publiés fin janvier 2012.

Participate in a Survey of Link Resolvers and Related Products

Please participate in a survey on OpenURL based link resolvers and knowledge bases conducted through Library Technology Guides. Link resolvers have been implemented in libraries that have offer collections of electronic resources to their users to facilitate linking to full-text content and other services. While used primarily in academic libraries, link resolvers have been implemented in many types of libraries with significant investments in subscriptions to electronic resources.

The survey aims to collect data from libraries that use any of the major linking or knowledgebase products, including ratings of overall satisfaction, the completeness, quality, and currency of the underlying knowledgebase as well as narrative comments about how the products perform in each of these areas.

The study also aims to measure the numbers libraries that have not implemented a link resolver. If your library has not implemented one, please respond and simply indicate « None. » It would be helpful to provide as a comment any reasons for not implementing, such as cost, lack of need, or use of alternative products.

Only one response per library is allowed. The survey should be completed by or in consultation with the persons in your library that deal most closely with electronic resources and your linking product.

How to participate

The survey links each response to the listing for a library in the lib-web-cats directory. This connection provides the ability to correlate responses with the extensive library demographic data in lib-web-cats.
–-> Find your library in lib-web-cats