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Exploring the viability of Google AdWords as an adjunct discovery layer for the Science and Engineering Library
 

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Presentation June 24, 2012, at the ACRL Science & Technology Research Forum, ALA Annual Convention 2012, Anaheim, CA. ...

Presentation June 24, 2012, at the ACRL Science & Technology Research Forum, ALA Annual Convention 2012, Anaheim, CA.

Abstract:
Analysis of the discovery and use patterns of the Science and Engineering books available electronically to customers of the DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library is presented, revealing what may be an alarming disconnect between the library¹s traditionally catalog-centric approach to discovery and the Google-centric information-seeking behaviors in use by the bulk of the library¹s supported demographic. The library has been engaged in a "soft rollout" of the patron-driven purchase and delivery of e-books across disciplines supported by the libraries at the University of Nevada, Reno; "soft" in that the discovery is limited to serendipitous discovery in the catalog search, with no external announcement of the resource availability. Usage reports for the preceding year, supplied by the vendor, were manually parsed by title to identify the titles that would have been shelved in the Science and Engineering branch library if they were print titles: analysis of the discovery and use patterns revealed is compared relative to overall student enrollment in the supported programs of study. The potential viability of leveraging Google AdWords as an adjunct discovery layer to the catalog is explored, and preliminary findings of a pilot implementation of a Google promotion of access to the branch library materials e-book titles by presentation of direct links to targeted materials directly in the context of their active Google search will be shared.

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