VuFind® Leipzig 2024 Future Discoveries: Vision "ThULB Suche" How ThULB Jena approaches user cent...

TALK 4 (ENG)
Vision "ThULB Suche" how ThULB Jena approaches user centered development of its Discovery System (Clemens Kynast | ThULB Jena)
Abstract: "ThULB Suche" is a Discovery System and most frequently used tool at "Thuringian University and State Library Jena" (ThULB). After an extensive user survey, workshops and discussions on our Library services in general, recurring wishes and problems for the "ThULB Suche" became apparent. The need for standardization of discovery systems in Thuringia and the upcoming change of Library System Architecture to Folio came on top of that. Its 2021, and for the first time, we stopped our daily business and asked ourself: „What do users expect from ThULB Suche? Are the change requests useful to most of the users? Who are the users anyway? To what extent are we prepared for the future? How to start and sort all this?" Since then we started defining a manifest and 10 theses, collected use cases of different personas, created mockups and built up a ThULB Suche specific survey. We were able to encourage users to do hands on workshops with us. We are currently discussing a catalog of requirements for future discovery systems in Thuringia together with all thuringian libraries. This talk wants to to show how we put our "ThULB Suche" in general to the test and started to develop our own "Vision ThULB Suche".
ABOUT THE EVENT:
The conference “VuFind® Leipzig 2024. Future Discoveries” (30.09.-01.10.2024) joined two important events in the field of discovery systems in libraries, bringing together experts on an international level. On the one hand the German VuFind®-Anwendertreffen, on the other hand the international VuFind® Summit. Our aim was to shed light on the current state of discovery systems and discuss their future potential with over 80 participants on site and around 160 registrations online - including Demian Katz, the maintainer and lead developer of VuFind®. For more information about the conference, please visit our event page at vufind.org/wik....
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