Archive for the tag "discovery tools"
Convenience and its Discontents: Teaching Web-Scale Discovery in the Context of Google
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Pete Coco, formerly of Grand Valley State University, now Humanities Liaison at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. With the continued improvements being made to web-scale discovery tools like Proquest’s Summon and EBSCO’s Discovery Service, access to library resources is reaching a singularity of sorts: frictionless searching. Providing a unified [...]
Posted: 27 January, 2012 in Student Issues, Teaching, Technology Issues.
Tags: discovery tools, Google, internet, web searching
Comments: 27
New and Improved – or Not?
One of the lovely surprises awaiting those who have been away from the reference desk for a while is the numerous spanking new database interfaces that have sprouted up. There seem to be more than usual this year, and while some are improvements, others, frankly, need a good spanking. One that has us particularly flummoxed [...]
Posted: 24 August, 2010 in Technology Issues.
Tags: databases, discovery tools, interfaces, JSTOR
Comments: 13