id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 3228 Dolski, Alex A. Information Discovery Insights Gained from MultiPAC, a Prototype Library Discovery System 2009-09-01 9 .pdf application/pdf 4324 309 58 most libraries, resources are dispersed into a number of resource access in an academic library environment. Fragmentation of library resources and their interfaces Currently, a comprehensive search for a given subject across as many library Some popular existing library discovery systems searches are carried out against a local index of resource the search server, the user interface, and the metadata five views: search, browse, results, item, and list, which The MultiPAC search view page n How MultiPAC answers UNLV Libraries' discovery questions The MultiPAC results view page abstract resources from their implementations, MultiPAC becomes, in effect, its own persistent URI system, unifying many library resources under one stable URI schema. Implementation-based http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/archdb2/index.php/projects/view/1509 Resource-based (hypothetical) http://www.library.unlv.edu/item/483742 The MultiPAC item view page The MultiPAC list view page Comparing sample crosswalked metadata from four different UNLV Libraries resources next generation of library discovery systems. What will not change are library-wide metadata quality ./cache/3228.pdf ./txt/3228.txt