Collective brains, Our library is undergoing a website redesign using Drupal CMS, and fortunately, the web design team has decided to privilege media search/ discovery (images, audio, video) on a tab right along side books and journals/articles. I have been charged with leading on consulting the design of this tab. Within the media tab, I am planning to have 3 sub tabs for video, images, and audio, each a little different reflected by the ways in which the respective media is discovered by their users. I am also proposing to add some additional functionality for federated search based on what we can technically offer (somewhat limited).
From a video perspective, this also provides us an opportunity to not only offer traditional catalog video search, but perhaps promote/ search intergrate some licensed streaming content (mostly in the catalog already), our Media Services, and a for now, a link to curated open video collections. For an example of what I am describing please see USC's "Images" tab using Webfeat: http://www.usc.edu/libraries/ Please share some innovative media search interfaces at yours or other institutions. So far, the only institutions I have found that have explicitly dedicated media search on the main page at the same level as books/journals are UofTexas (CD/DVD), UofWashington (Audio and Video - no Image), USC (Image only), Uof Illinois (Media), Kansas (Images search off to the left side). Thanks much, -Scott Scott Spicer Media Outreach and Learning Spaces Librarian Physical Sciences and Engineering University of Minnesota Libraries 233 Walter Library 612.626.0629 Media Services: http://lib.umn.edu/media SMART: http://smart.umn.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
