Archive for January 27th, 2012
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 interface [...]
Posted: 27 January, 2012 in Student Issues, Teaching, Technology Issues.
Tags: discovery tools, Google, internet, web searching
Comments: 9