Presented by: Kevin Gilbertson, Lauren Pressley and Joy GambillWake Forest University, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

NC LITe, Appalachian State University, May 21, 2012

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1. Every student was successful with this search.

2. Every student clearly knew when they had selected an ebook and how to access the ebook.

3. We learned very quickly that even basic searches are not as simple as we thought.

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1. Students were easily able to find their books.

2. Two students were not able to find books by classic authors.

3. Searching for “Harry Potter” gave 6 titles before a Harry Potter book was listed.

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1. Have you thought about using quotation marks for phrase searching?

2. Do you realize the facets go away after each search?

3. Have you thought about looking at your results more closely?

4. All of the above.

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1. Relevance—most obvious things should come up at the top.

2. Limit options from the beginning.

3. Sorting by format (books and journals)

4. All of the above.