Introducing the Summon Search Box
Posted: July 30th, 2010
You’ve told us what you want from a library search tool. Beginning today, we’re hoping that you’ll find that Queen’s Library offers an improved search experience with the introduction of Summon.
Summon streamlines the research process by enabling you to search quickly and easily across the catalogue and many of our electronic resources from a single search box. With Summon, you can discover and access reliable and credible library content – print and electronic books, single articles to entire e-journals, newspapers, theses, media and more.
Summon Features
- Single search
Provides a Google-like search experience, so you can use one search box to discover credible and reliable library content. - Relevant results
Delivers search results in a relevancy-ranked list so the most relevant results appear at the top of the list. - Results refinement
Navigate and narrow search result sets using multiple methods, such as filtering, faceting and sorting. - Full-text filter
Results set can be limited to items immediately available in full text online. - View and Export Citations
Search results can be easily formatted and citations exported to bibliographic software like RefWorks or cut-and-paste into a Word document, printed or emailed.
New and Improved QCAT
For those who prefer the old-school search experience, we’re also rolling out some improvements to the QCAT Library Catalogue. Updates include:
- Use your NetID to access “My Library Account” (no more digging through your wallet for your barcode!)
- View item locations on library floorplans
- Permanent URLs to QCAT records
- Direct export to RefWorks
- Links to Google Books
- Fresh new design
Preview the new and improved QCAT (to launch in early August)
Tell us what you think!
Many of these changes were inspired by feedback from our library’s users. Let us know what you think via our feedback form, or share your comments below.
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