Compiled and edited by Varnum, Exploring Discovery: The Front Door to Your Library's Licensed and Digitized Content features first-hand profiles of 19 library projects. Varnum and his roster of contributors offer guidance on the complete range of discovery services, from the broad sweep of vendors' products to the fine points of specialized holdings ... Exploring Discovery is easy to dip into as needed, and provides a comprehensive examination of discovery services that will prove invaluable to IT, web development, electronic resource management, and technical services staff. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, Exploring Discovery is very highly recommended for community, corporate, governmental, and academic library "Library Science" instructional reference collections and supplemental studies curriculum reading lists. * Midwest Book Review * ...an essential tool for individuals who manage their librarys discovery systems. This book is recommended for academic libraries. * ARBA * Although primarily focused on discovery in academic libraries, Exploring Discovery does offer any library considering how to best implement a discovery service some useful examples of projects as well as some thoughtful examinations of issues surrounding discovery....this would be a valuable book to refer to when beginning the discovery process. * Technicalities * Exploring Discovery is an excellent resource to find out what solutions libraries of different kinds are using, and what are the challenges to expect when trying to improve a library discovery system. -- Claudio Svaluto * Alexandria * Exploring Discovery is a valuable book for implementers and is admirably complete on the topics it covers. -- Thomas Dowling * Technical Services Quarterly * The authors of the essays come primarily from the academic library world, but there are corporate and museum representatives, as well. Taken together, the volume effectively presents the complexity of providing adequate discovery tools for optimal utilization of the vast holdings of institutions in the current era. -- Maurine McCourry * Against the Grain *
