With decreasing buying power in collections budgets and increasing emphasis
on collaborative collection building across local and regional consortia,
institutions may be looking for easier ways to expose and deliver these
shared resources. The Triangle Research Libraries Network members (Duke,
NCCU, NCSU, and UNC-CH libraries) have been building shared collections for
decades and running a shared index for over 10 years. With the TRLN
Discovery project, our consortium is migrating away from a customized
vendor solution and leveraging common, open source tools (Solr, Blacklight)
and shared infrastructure (AWS) to build a new discovery and delivery
environment. This talk will broadly outline how these tools are being used
and highlight a few interesting components that have been added to support
consortial discovery. It will also cover how we have organized our
development and governance processes on a consortial project with limited
central resources and how we are approaching exposing the shared collection
to institutional users in the interface. This talk is intended to expose
alternatives to buying off-the-shelf products to support consortial
discovery for other institutions interested in similar outcomes.