Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that
Richland Library in South Carolina has created a unique user experience for its library customers, with the help of EBSCO Discovery Service™ API (EDS API). By implementing EDS API, Richland Library was able to use their own website applications for their discovery user interface and still provide their users with all the functionality offered in EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).
Although Richland Library wasn’t initially looking at discovery services, they soon realised after an evaluation, that EDS API can help develop the ideal user experience while also enabling creative control for its library. EDS API is a unique solution that complements and enhances the search experience for libraries with custom discovery solutions by providing access to premium content available through EBSCO Discovery Service, as well as a robust set of features and functionality.
With EDS API, libraries can integrate critical components of EDS into their library solution including rich metadata, superior relevancy ranking, full-text linking, (including SmartLinks™), persistent links, custom links, facets, limiters and expanders, and book jacket images.
Over the next few months Richland Library hopes to do more usability studies and to see how the library customers are interacting with the library website. They plan to take advantage of some additional features and functionality that EDS provides including adding more facets to the interface to cater different user-level search needs.
EBSCO Discovery Service brings together the most comprehensive collection of content - including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection - all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience.
