Federated search is part of collection development

[ Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jill Hurst-Wahl, author of Digitization 101. Jill’s post discusses an important topic that is not commonly discussed, that collection development and federated search application development are not independent activities. ]

Ed Shephard, Head of Collection Development & Management at Binghamton (NY) University Libraries, spoke during the second day of the Library Camp @ Syracuse, which was focused on collection development. Shephard reminded us that federated search is part of collection development because it impacts how users view and interact with a library’s electronic collection. (Note: I am purposefully using the phrase electronic collection, since (1) historically we have talked about electronic resources in libraries and (2) some people wrongly believe that “digital” resources mean “digitized” resources.)

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