ELUNA learns 2025 – Discovery

• 1:00 pm – 1:05 pm. Introduction  
• 1:05 pm – 1:50 pm. Retractions on the Rise: Leveraging LibKey to Protect Research Integrity. 
• 1:50 pm – 2:00 pm. Break 
• 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm. Discovery presentation in research libraries: an environmental scan. 
• 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm. Break 
• 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm. Better Discovery Through Change: Looking Back on Fifteen Years of Primo Development to Help Prepare for the Future. 

Note, schedule times are approximate. Schedule may shift slightly during the event.  

Retractions on the Rise: Leveraging LibKey to Protect Research Integrity. Kendall Bartsch, CEO, Third Iron (Gold Sponsor).  

As retractions surge, the risk of relying on compromised research—often unknowingly—grows. LibKey’s new second-order retraction feature goes beyond flagging retracted articles, alerting users when citing works may also be affected. This presentation will showcase how libraries can integrate this capability into their workflows to stop misinformation at the source. Attendees will see how LibKey surfaces retraction data in real time, ensures transparent access to reliable sources, and empowers researchers to make informed choices. Learn how your library can proactively protect research integrity and stay ahead of the retraction wave. 

Discovery presentation in research libraries: an environmental scan. Stacie Traill, Discovery and Metadata Systems Lead, University of Minnesota Libraries.  

Library discovery systems and tools can be customized and presented in nearly endless ways. Each library makes a host of decisions about how to present discovery in ways that will best serve users and expose collections. Are there consensus choices across research libraries that might be said to represent “best practices”? In 2023 and 2024, I set out to answer this question by visiting the websites of all 120 academically affiliated Association of Research Libraries members. I recorded detailed information about how each library presents search options and search results. In this session, I will share analysis of my results, along with some possible answers to the following questions: How much variation is there in discovery presentation across research libraries? To what extent do presentation choices correlate with software/system selection? Are any consensus approaches supported by published usability studies? What future research is suggested by this investigation? 

Better Discovery Through Change: Looking Back on Fifteen Years of Primo Development to Help Prepare for the Future. Mike Rogers, Director of Discovery & Technology Solutions, University of Tennessee – Knoxville. 

Much should improve with Primo’s Next Discovery Experience (NDE), but there will undoubtedly be a few unhappy users with the change it brings. In this presentation, I will share UTK’s history of moving from the “classic catalog” to a discovery system, and the subsequent fifteen years of developing Primo – first in its early stages in 2009, to incorporating Primo Central Index in 2013 and the new UI in 2017, and finally to Primo VE in the 2020s. We will review many new features added, along with third-party tools that improved the overall experience. I will also share our experience with change management and how we learned from mistakes over the years. The goal is that by taking a retrospective look back on the Primo changes, we can better prepare ourselves for a possible move to Primo NDE at some point in the future.