By Marc Parry
Many professors and students gravitate to Google as a gateway to research. Libraries want to offer them a comparably simple and broad experience for searching academic content. As a result, a major change is under way in how libraries organize information. Instead of bewildering users with a bevy of specialized databases—books here, articles there—many libraries are bulldozing their digital silos. They now offer one-stop search boxes that comb entire collections, Google style.
Image: A.J. Mast for The Chronicle - Andrew Asher, assessment librarian at Indiana U. at Bloomington, studied how students use new library search tools. “It’s a logical impossibility to create a querying tool that doesn’t have any form of bias,” he says.
To read the original article: As Researchers Turn to Google, Libraries Navigate the Messy World of Discovery Tools - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
