As new students arrive at college campuses everywhere, we all know the first thing they do is … check out their library’s web page (go/library)! So, once you do that, you might wonder: what’s with this “library quick search” thing? … Continue reading →…Continue Reading What’s With This “Quick Search” Thing…?
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Friday links – February 3, 2012
Whitepaper on Improving the discoverability of scholarly content in the twenty-first century Related to the paper above: Rediscovering Discovery — How We Find Things, and Its Implications Unrelated to the previous two papers! Book Burning, 213 BC–2011 AD – from the … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Friday links – February 3, 2012
Does tagging content make it easier to find with search? No.
I’ve received this question from several people now. Below are two videos from Matt Cutts who works on Google’s Webspam team explaining how tagging content mostly does not affect their search results. This also means that tagging largely will not … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Does tagging content make it easier to find with search? No.
Weekly Web Development Round-up June 12-17, 2011
To give our colleagues a better idea of what’s changed in our web applications each week, we’ll be preparing this quick list for publication each Friday. Not all of the details of each change are included below, but we’ll be … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Weekly Web Development Round-up June 12-17, 2011
Search Everything!
New! Whether you want books, or newspaper articles, or images, you now can start in just one place. Summon is our newest and most effective tool for searching many resources at once, so we’ve put it right at the center … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Search Everything!
Site Search Satisfaction Survey
Please take a few minutes and let us know whether our website’s search feature is working: http://go.middlebury.edu/search/feedback. Forward this exciting link to your friends and co-workers so that they may weigh in as well. If you think we’re missing an … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Site Search Satisfaction Survey
Website Improvements #5: Search
When Middlebury first started using a Content Management System to organize its site in 2003 we added a local search engine for the site, operated by Atomz. This search engine wasn’t very popular, people weren’t finding the information they needed. At a meeting a couple years later, Barbara Merz remarked, “Why don’t we just get […]…Continue Reading Website Improvements #5: Search