Fondly Remembering Our Implementation of Eds: 2014 MDL Vendor Day

Fondly remembering our

implementation of EDS

Bill Helman,

University of Baltimoreflickr.com/namsj/

And it was all smooth sailing.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sailing_Ship_Illustration.jpg

Mostly.

Or at least my parts were.

But this was a team effort.

Mostly.

Or at least my parts were.

But this was a team effort.

Mostly.

Or at least my parts were.

But this was a team effort.

Our Implementation Team:

Aiden Faust,

Bill Helman,

Betty Landesman,

Michael Shochet,

Susan Wheeler

“It worked out pretty well once it

was up.”

“It was. Interesting”

“Implementation has two faces. We

had a lot of trouble with

implementation as ‘install a new

product,’ but implementation as ‘use

a new product’ went very well.”

“From my perspective, the most

important things were keeping it

simple and effective communication.”

Every large scale project will have

complications, implementing

Discovery is no different.

Every large scale project will have

complications, implementing

Discovery is no different.

Item level data for unique holdings in

the catalog.

Every large scale project will have

complications, implementing

Discovery is no different.

Things getting turned on without our

permission.

Every large scale project will have

complications, implementing

Discovery is no different.

CONTENTdm: being the liaison

between OCLC and EBSCO.

“They had difficulty interpreting our

needs, but once they understood

they did get things ironed out. It just

took awhile in some cases.”

“Particularly good for students who

are new to libraries.”

“Even faculty seem to like it once they

are shown the filters on the left.”

“Gives us more time to focus on

teaching evaluating information, and

less time on the how to get to ‘peer

reviewed’ results.”

Branding: WYSWYGk.

Branding: WYSWYGkinda.

Branding: WYSWYGkinda.

Wait, where does

that color go?

Why are they tied

together?

Search Box Integration?

Search Box Integration?

No complaints.

Search Box Integration?

No complaints. Really.

Search Box Integration?

No complaints. Really.

SearchBox Builder was a great time-saving

tool, and would be great for people who didn’t

know what those crazy strings meant.

(our main site)

Search Box Integration?

Also worked well in our LMS

and the UB Portal.

Search Box Integration?

Well our LMS (Sakai) does have some issues

with displaying insecure content.

But I think that has more to do with local

security settings in Sakai, than it does with

EDS itself.

One Last Challenge:

We wanted to use profiles in a way they probably

did not have in mind.

Didn’t work out well in user testing: when folks got

caught in confusing silos.

Thanks.

Bill Helman,

twitter.com/thinkpol

http://whelman.com

This presentation is available at: slideshare.net/whelman