Network Zone Discovery

Community of Practice

Community Charge

The Network Zone Discovery Community of Practice is charged with undertaking collective efforts to take advantage of Network Zone functionalities related to discovery and providing guidance to Network Zone member libraries on local configurations that maximize network-level discovery and access.

Responsibilities

  • Review existing and newly released discovery-related functionality of the Network Zone, and make recommendations on which functionalities to prioritize the implementation of, and a timeline for doing so.

  • Collaborate with other Network Zone Communities of Practice and Working Groups to implement functionality and configurations related to discovery.

  • Develop best practices and provide guidance to participating institutions on optimizing discovery and display of Network Zone materials.

  • Align or move Primo settings into the NZ when doing so will improve the user experience (e.g. having identical resource type definitions).

Convener

Lori Stethers
Chair
Systems/ Emerging Technologies Librarian

Wesleyan University
lstethers@wesleyan.edu

Membership

The Network Zone Discovery Community of Practice includes up to two representatives from Network Zone member institutions.

Membership is reviewed and renewed each June, beginning June 2026.

Meetings

The Discovery Community of Practice will meet monthly, with additional meetings as-needed.

 

FY26 Discovery Community Roster

Lori Stethers
Chair
Systems/ Emerging Technologies Librarian

Wesleyan University
lstethers@wesleyan.edu

Joe Frawley 
Technical Services/Systems Librarian

Connecticut College
jfrawley@conncoll.edu

Andrew Lopez
Research and Instruction Librarian

Connecticut College
alopez6@conncoll.edu

Laksamee Cave
User Experience & Design Librarian

Middlebury College
lcave@middlebury.edu

Rachel Manning
Resource Sharing Librarian

Middlebury College
rmanning@middlebury.edu

Joelle Thomas 
Systems, User Experience, & Discovery Librarian

Trinity College
joelle.thomas@trincoll.edu

Molly Rogers
Web Services Librarian, Library Assistant Professor

University of Vermont
Molly.Rogers@uvm.edu

Lynne Stahl
Humanities & Interdisciplinary Studies Librarian

Wesleyan University
lstahl01@wesleyan.edu