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Creating a Plan for Discoverability , promotion, and Visibility of digital reference works in the Wrightsville Beach Public Library

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  By Jencey Gortney,  Adult Services Librarian,  Wrightsville Beach Public Library, Public Libraries Online, jlgortney@crimson.ua.edu published on  July 31, 2022                                 Discoverability is defined as a ” problem for content creators to find an audience given an abundance of choice.”         We at the Wrightsville Beach Public Library feel that discoverability is important and impacts the services we offer our patrons.  We implemented a plan to increase discoverability by promoting and increasing visibility and access to reference resources, on the library website. It all starts with the catalog which shows the resources that the library has.  In the article   Thirteen Ways  of Looking at Libraries , Discovery, and the Catalog: Scale, Workflow, Attention  by Lorcan Dempsey  explores the way that libraries can build discoverability.   The catalog lists the resources that can be used by the reference staff or patrons.   The staff works with different forms of metad