Does this mean well lose local level statistics on BadgerLink?
Sally Drew: We don’t think it will change your ability to view statistics, but the process is very time consuming because each vendor handles them differently. EBSCO is the only vendor offering us an easily accessible administrative module to view statistics. We’re hoping to improve the consistency of statistics. Federated Searching will allow us to search across multiple databases. We want to allow patrons to search all databases or to select specific databases for searching. Lisa Reale demonstrated federated searching capabilities via screen shots. Sally Drew: We’re tying to make it possible for patrons to select the three interfaces EBSCO provides to meet the needs of different age children. Implementation of federated searching will happen before we meet again, and I wanted to preview the ways we’ve attempted to meet the recommendations made by this group in the past. Josh Ranger: Will the current and historic newspapers be searched together? Sally Drew: Yes. Cathy Markwiese: Will
