Final Day of Internship

I completed the final day of my internship on April 20. I finished testing the federated search and wrote a brief report of the test and made recommendations. Several of the databases that were supposed to be included in the federated search were not being included, which was leaving out a great deal of academic articles. Also, FirstSearch was returning many, many items and most of them were not relevant. I suspect that there is a problem with translating the search from the federated search to OCLC.

Total hours completed 135

Federated Search: Learning and testing

This week I am learning about federated searching in general (journal articles,websites), learning about 360Search (tutorials, FAQs, Best Practices) and testing 360 search as we have it configured at MCU.

I have found some interesting results and find that at times the federated search is more difficult than I thought it would be.

Tues 6.5
Thurs 6.5