Exploring discovery : the front door to your library's licensed and digitized content / edited by Kenneth J. Varnum.

London : Facet Publishing, 2016.

xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

First published in the USA by the American Library Association, 2016.

Collaborative growth toward discovery : becoming stronger through change / Margaret Heller and Hong Ma -- Approaching discovery as part of a library service platform : lessons learned / Nathan Hosburgh -- When you rent your front door : a mid-size library's experiences relying on discovery vendors / Stephen Bollinger and Kate Silton -- Exploring discovery at Rosenberg Library : what happens when a library, a museum, and an archive get together to share a single discovery tool? / T. Louise M. Kidder -- Geospatial resource discovery / Darren Hardy, Jack Reed, and Bess Sadler -- Discovery on a shoestring : implementing a full-functioned discovery tool with free software and no-extra-charge metadata sources / Julia Bauder -- Agile open-source discovery : Blacklight with EBSCO Discovery Service / Sam Popowich -- Using Blacklight for archival discovery / Adam Wead and Jennie Thomas -- Creating a "magical" request and delivery experience for patrons using a Blacklight-based catalog / Matthew Connolly, Jennifer Colt, Joanne Leary, and Melissa Wallace -- The bento box design pattern / Jason Thomale, William Hicks, and Mark Phillips -- One-to-many : building a single-search interface for disparate resources / Cole Hudson and Graham Hukill -- Integrating discovery to improve the user experience / Sonya Betz and Ian Roberton -- Fixing facets / Sean Hannan, Steven Heslip, and Kristen Johannes -- One size doesn't fit all : tailoring discovery through user testing / Joseph Deodata, Khalilah Gambrell, and Eric Frierson -- From user stories to working code : a case study from NYU's digital collections discovery initiative / Daniel Lovins -- Regional aggregation and discovery of digital collections : the Mountain West Digital Library / Anna Neatrour, Rebekah Cummings, and Sandra McIntyre -- Open Access and discovery tools : how do Primo libraries manage green open access collections? / François Renaville -- Discovery platforms and the database of record / Alan Manifold -- Know thy metadata : metadata challenges in discovery services / Myung-Ja K. Han and William Fletcher Weathers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.