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    1. At the search and discovery panel at #HistDay17. The great @AnneWelsh is chairing the panel.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    Citing Hoeppner (2012): most bibliographic data is not library data. It's mostly provided by commercial vendors and third-parties #HistDay17
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      M'colleague Claudia Mendias is up for talking about @SOASLibrary's work to get all of their materials - library, archives, digital, e-resources, card catalogue - into one unified search interface.
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        Soas has unique challenges for search not only because of breadth of material types but because of the range of languages and systems that records have been put in #HistDay17
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          Claudia citing Kuhlthau (2004) on their psychological model of the information search process. This has informed our work on unified search at Soas #HistDay17
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            Soas Library's catalogue searches our LMS, our archives system, our institutional repository, our digital library, and our e-resources all at the same time #HistDay17
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              Soas doesn't need to know who our users for search are: we provide good systems so they can find their own path #HistDay17