The Benefit of Web-Scale Discoveries

April 24, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on The Benefit of Web-Scale Discoveries

Connecting users with the information they seek is one of the central pillars of the librarian profession. The new web-scale discovery services for libraries provide quick searching seamlessly across various components of indexed content.

American Libraries magazine brought this information to our attention in their article, “Dispatches from the field.” This evolution for the library environment offers some powerful potential in connecting researchers with vast amounts of data.

Libraries spend massive amounts of money every year to purchase or pay for access to data that is growing every day through digital content. Web-scale discovery services allow that content to be discovered and used – the ultimate goal of a library.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.