North Carolina Summon® User Group Meeting

Usability, analytics, and instruction emerged as hot topics for discussion at the North Carolina Summon Users Group Meeting, held May 18 at Duke University. Librarians from seven universities across the state used lightning talks and roundtable discussions to hash out ideas, pose questions, and share solutions relating to their use of Summon.

The event began with a tasty lunch from Foster’s Market in Durham, accompanied by networking and friendly conversation. The official program kicked off with a presentation from Serials Solutions’ Eddie Neuwirth, who gave the crowd a preview of new Summon developments.

五大闪电谈判突出显示北卡罗来纳州大学的项目和分析：

Anita Crescenzi和Kim Vassiliadis在教堂山的北卡罗来纳大学，从他们图书馆的整个网站的大规模可用性研究提供了一些初步结果。

Ginny Boyerdescribed a study that explored librarian perceptions of Summon at ECU, and the positive effects of greater exposure to the tool.

Karen Ciccone.(pictured, right)of North Carolina State University (NCSU) shared her library’s successful decision to brand Summon as an easy-to-use articles search as part of a suite of discovery services.

Duke’sMichael Peper报告了一个有希望的实验，将数字图像集合记录加载到召唤中，以及缩略图图像。

Patrick Carrfrom East Carolina University (ECU) raised a number of questions about Summon’s effect on other electronic resources by presenting usage data from before and after a Summon implementation.

The following roundtable sessions provided a chance for small groups to choose topics and discuss them in greater detail. One group explored the challenges of teaching Summon as part of a library instruction curriculum, highlighting the difficulty of establishing a consistent approach to Summon across librarians and faculty. Another group stressed that the ability to deliver the content found in Summon is just as important as the ability to discover it.

半天会议结束于下午4:30，与会者认为它为网络创造了一个有价值的机会，并与其他召唤用户合作。关于召唤在不同大学的各种主题和理解提供了良好的学习体验。这是该地区的第一个召唤用户群体会议，并有利息未来做另一个方案。

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