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Masked by Trust Bias in Library Discovery

Paperback • 2019 • English

Masked by Trust Bias in Library Discovery

By Matthew Reidsma

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About the book

The rise of Google and its integration into nearly every aspect of our lives has pushed libraries to adopt similar "Google-like" search tools, called discovery systems. Because these tools are provided by libraries and search scholarly materials rather than the open web, we often assume they are more "accurate" or "reliable" than their general-purpose peers like Google or Bing. But discovery systems are still software written by people with prejudices and biases, library software vendors are sub...Show more

Library, archive and information management
IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries
Data science and analysis: general

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9781634000833

Publisher

Litwin Books

Published year

2019

Language

English

Original title

Masked by Trust Bias in Library Discovery

Format

Paperback

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