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Implementing Quick Search in the Newly Designed Library Website to Meet Users’ Needs

Implementing Quick Search in the Newly Designed Library Website to Meet Users’ Needs. Fengzhi Fan, Systems Librarian Yingting Zhang, Information & Education Librarian Robert Cupryk, Information & Education Librarian Kerry O’Rourke, Campus Library Director,

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Implementing Quick Search in the Newly Designed Library Website to Meet Users’ Needs

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  1. Implementing Quick Search in the Newly Designed Library Website to Meet Users’ Needs Fengzhi Fan, Systems Librarian Yingting Zhang, Information & Education Librarian Robert Cupryk, Information & Education Librarian Kerry O’Rourke, Campus Library Director, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences NJLA, April 27, 2010 UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  2. Introduction – Focus groups Focus Groups with Students: • Comments & suggestions on old website • Ideas for better features on new website • Sample features presented for review • Single search box was favored • Capability to search PubMed from homepage UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  3. Outcome of Focus Groups Based on focus groups’ results, a quick search feature was developed: • in early 2009 • in house by library staff • implemented in our newly designed website • enabling students to perform quick search in PubMed, CINAHL, and our e-resources collection directly from library’s homepage: http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb • goal accomplished without any additional funding UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  4. RWJ Library Old Website UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  5. A Glance at UMDNJ – RWJ Library Websitehttp://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb/ UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  6. A Closer Look at the Quick Search Box The first quick search box is an embedded search script which provides a direct search against selected databases such as PubMed and CINAHL. In the example below PubMed was chosen. UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  7. PubMed Search Example / Demo UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  8. PubMed Search Results UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  9. PubMed Search Results UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  10. PubMed Search Results Finding Full Text Article UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  11. Embedded Search Script Redirect.cgi is a simple perl script which provides a direct search against PubMed & CINAHL. PubMed parser: my $URL = "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez?holding=njunjnlib&otool=njunjnlib&dr=Abstract&term=$strTitle"; print "<script type='text/javascript'>"; print "window.location='$URL'"; print "</script>"; CINAHL parser: my $URL = "http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?db=cin20&fquery=$strTitle&scope=site"; print "<script type='text/javascript'>"; print "window.location='$URL'"; print "</script>"; Other parsers could include: Voyager, Medline, AccessMedicine, MDConsult, ASP, etc. UMDNJ Office of Advancement and Communications

  12. Finding an E-Resource The second search box is a database-driven search program, capable of searching the UMDNJ e-resource collection including e-journals, e-books, databases, and subject toolkits. A limited subject search is available for e-books and databases. The collection can also be browsed by alphabet. For e-journals, data is loaded from the SFX server. For e-books and databases, data is imported from a flat table maintained by our e-resources staff. Various web/database technologies were utilized including MySQL, MS Access, Perl, and PHP. UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  13. E-Resource Search Example / Demo UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  14. E-Resource Search Example UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  15. Database-Driven Search Program qsearch.php is a php script which provides search for e-books, e-journals, e-databases & toolkits titles. Example SQL query to find e-books by title and subject in MS Access: $sqlquery = "SELECT DISTINCT title, url, database, cgi FROM jinput WHERE type = 'ebook' AND title LIKE '%$keywords%' UNION SELECT DISTINCT title, url, database, cgi FROM jinput WHERE cgi IN (SELECT cgi FROM ebook_subject_link WHERE subject_id = (SELECT subject_id FROM ebook_subject WHERE subject = '$keywords'))"; PHP code to display the search result: while(!$objrs->EOF) { $title = $objrs->Fields(0); $url = $objrs->Fields(1); $database = $objrs->Fields(2); $cgi = $objrs->Fields(3); $realUrl = $realUrl = "<li><a href=\"http://www.umdnj.edu/cgi-bin/libjournal/" . $cgi->value . "\" target='_blank'\""; print("" . $realUrl . ">" . $title->value . "</a> - E-book from " . $database->value . "</li><br>"); UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  16. Database-Driven Search Program Example sql query to find e-journals by title in MySQL: $query = "SELECT A.TITLE_NORMALIZED, F.THRESHOLD_GLOBAL, S.ISSN_ID, F.THRESHOLD, A.OBJECT_ID, MIN(SUBSTRING(F.THRESHOLD_GLOBAL, 23, 5)) AS HOLDING FROM AZ_TITLE A, AZ_FILTER F, AZ_LETTER_GROUP L, ISSN S WHERE A.OBJECT_ID = F.OBJECT_ID AND A.OBJECT_ID = S.OBJECT_ID AND L.AZ_LETTER_GROUP_ID = A.AZ_LETTER_GROUP_ID AND A.TITLE_NORMALIZED LIKE '%$keywords%' GROUP BY A.OBJECT_ID ORDER BY A.AZ_TITLE_ORDER"; UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  17. Database-Driven Search Program PHP code to display the e-journal search result: //format sql result for display $title = ""; $sub_id = ""; $holding = ""; $sfxlink1 = ""; $sfxlink2 = ""; $beginning = "http://sfx.umdnj.edu/sfxlcl3?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=infofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info:sid/sfxit.com:azlist&sfx.ignore_date_threshold=1&rft.object_id="; $ending = "&svc.holdings=yes&svc.fulltext=yes"; while($record = mysql_fetch_object($result)) { $title = "$record->TITLE_NORMALIZED"; $sub_id = "$record->ISSN_ID"; $holding = "$record->HOLDING"; $object = "$record->OBJECT_ID"; $sfxlink1 = $beginning . $object . $ending; $sfxlink2 = "<li><a href='$sfxlink1' target='_blank'>$title</a> - ISSN - $sub_id - full text available from $holding</li><br>"; echo $sfxlink2; } UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  18. Benefits of Quick Search to UMDNJ Library Users • The Quick Search function provides a more convenient and efficient means for our users to search key biomedical databases. • Provides one-stop searching of UMDNJ e-resource titles. • The e-journal listing on the local server backs up the A-Z journal data in our link resolver and increases search speed. UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  19. Benefits of Quick Search to Information Community • This feature was subsequently adopted by all UMDNJ campus libraries. • It can be shared with and customized by other interested libraries UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  20. Quick Search Adopted by Other Libraries UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  21. Impact on Library Operations • Implementation of Quick Search demonstrated that we heard our users’ concerns and responded to their needs effectively. • Equally important we were able to accomplish the goal without any additional funding. This is particularly significant in today’s economic downturn. UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  22. Impact on Library/Librarians in the Academic Setting • Provides convenient one-stop search for PubMed & CINAHL • Directs users to the UMDNJ-specific PubMed link • Maximizes utilization of UMDNJ’s e-resources UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  23. PubMed Search Results UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  24. Members of the RWJ Library’s Website Development Team • Fengzhi Fan: Systems Librarian, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences, 1 RWJ Place, PO Box 19, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, fanfe@umdnj.edu, 732-235-7605.  • Yingting Zhang: Information & Education Librarian, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences, 1 RWJ Place, PO Box 19, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, yzhang@umdnj.edu, 732-235-7604. • Robert Cupryk: Information & Education Librarian, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences, 1 RWJ Place, PO Box 19, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, cupryk@umdnj.edu, 732-235-7604. • Kerry O’Rourke: Campus Library Director, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences, 1 RWJ Place, PO Box 19, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, orourke@umdnj.edu, 732-235-7606. UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

  25. Thank You! UMDNJ – RWJ Library of the Health Sciences – http://libraries.umdnj.edu/rwjlbweb

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