Document Type

Article

Original Publication Date

2008

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Against the Grain

Volume

20

Issue

3

First Page

18

Last Page

22

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Date of Submission

June 2014

Abstract

In order to take the temperature of the academic library community with regard to external search boxes, the authors visited 111 academic ARL Library web sites on October 9th, 2007. In visiting each homepage, a record was kept detailing the presence and type of search boxes appearing at the top level. The resulting data paints an interesting portrait of diverse approaches, congruencies, and innovation. Globally this measure strikes to the core of current technological challenges with library search and web site design.

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