Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum

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The Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum is an annual event in June featuring lightning talks, presentations, and poster sessions by UMD Libraries’ librarians and staff.

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    Bento Box Discovery: Alpha Release
    (2019-06-11) Bradley, Ben; Brite, Jay; Parker, Bria; Smith, Austin; Wallberg, Ben; Zdravkovska, Nevenka; Zhao, Cindy
    For the past year, the Discovery Committee has been working on creating a new search interface for the libraries using NCSU Libraries' QuickSearch, an open-source application. This poster will provide an update on the progress the group has made and will include a live demo and usability testing of the in-development application.
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    Bento Box Discovery
    (2016-06-08) Wallberg, Ben; Tai, Xiaoyu
    Users find the the list of resources and terms for finding information bewildering: book, journal, article, database, resource, catalog, worldcat, guide, website, google scholar, institutional repository, digital collections, archives, etc. What they really want is a single search box which will return a single, relevance-ranked result set across all Libraries' resources and more. In the absence of a single data source to support such a search, Libraries for many years have tried to dynamically aggregate and de-duplicate federated searches across multiple data sources, called metasearch, which has not worked very well. In recent years a new model, often called Bento Box, has become popular which attempts to come closer to the ideal search. In this model the user enters their search into a single box, then multiple sources are searched and presented back on a single result screen, boxed into separate areas without de-duplication, with only a few results from each source. Then the user can clearly see that results have come from multiple sources and either select a specific hit or see more results from any of the sources.