What do you call your discovery search engine?

Tue Jun 16 15:09:49 EDT 2015

@Erin, @Amy, utterly agreed… here’s why:
http://emilysingley.net/top-5-problems-with-library-websites-a-review-of-recent-usability-studies/
“What does that mean?  Library jargon
This was by far the most cited problem: 10 out of 16 studies reported library jargon.  Not surprising, considering a recent review of library web sites that found only 49% to be jargon-free [1]<http://emilysingley.net/top-5-problems-with-library-websites-a-review-of-recent-usability-studies/#footnote1>.   Terms that were problematic:

 *   Catalog or discovery tool: “catalog,” “COPAC,” “LINK+,” “Engine Orange”

Sharon Clapp
Digital Resources Librarian
CCSU – Elihu Burritt Library
860-832-2059
sclapp at ccsu.edu

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In total agreement with Amy. At VCU we decided that naming things doesn't really help usability and seems kind of old-school. We call ours search, or VCU Libraries Search if we are feeling fancy. Some of our instruction librarians call it "the big yellow search box on the homepage."

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Erin White
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Shannon E. Fox <sfox at austincollege.edu<mailto:sfox at austincollege.edu>> wrote:
RooSearch, because our mascot is the kangaroo.

Shannon Fox-Teichmann
Austin College | Abell Library Center
Sherman, TX

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Hi Jonathan,

Last year, during the process to choose a name to our discovery tool (Primo), we made the following list, from Primo installations around the World:

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Atrium (Université de Montréal)
BobCat (New York University)
CatalogPlus (Vienna University of Technology) Central Search (University of Central Oklahoma) DaTA (Tel-Aviv University) Discover Library (Vanderbilt University) Easy Search (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Explore (British Library) Find It! (Binghamton University) Holmes One Search (Boston College) Hunter (St George's University of London) iCat (Kingston University) Info Locate (Law Society of Upper Canada) Knowledge Portal (ETH-Bibliothek Zurich) Libraries Search (Boston University Libraries) Library Search (Canterbury Christ Church University) Limo (K.U.Leuven) Linfield Search (Linfield College) Multi Search (Macquarie University Library) Odyssée (Université Paris-Dauphine) One Stop Search (University of Manitoba) Omnis (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul) One Search (California State University, Sacramento) Parthenon (UNESP, Brasil) Portal de Busca Integrada (USP, Brasil) Primo (Aalborg University) Primo OneSearch (University of East Anglia) Primus (Humboldt University Berlin) Rex (Royal Library of Denmark) QuickSearch (Eastern Shore Community College) Scholar OneSearch (Northeastern University) Scholar Search (Brigham Young University) SearchIt (Princeton University Library) Smart Search (Atlanta University Center) SOLAR Library Search (University of Salford) Star Plus (University of Sheffield) TRiCAT (Universität Trier) Tutto (Università degli Studi di Torino) UniVerse (University of Verona) Virtuose (Université du Québec à Montréal)
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Regards,

Michelangelo

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We're thinking about a name for the discovery engine we will be getting, and are looking for ideas.  If your library's discovery search engine has a name (other than the vendor name), what is it?

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Jonathan Bloy
Librarian, Head of Digital Initiatives
Edgewood College
Madison, Wisconsin
http://library.edgewood.edu

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