From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:39:53 -0800

I participated in a panel at ALA on discovery and wrote up some notes
on it at the Scholarly Kitchen.  One commenter asked for more
information on a particular issue:  What is the role of the Web-scale
search engines in library discovery?  How is that usage measured?  And
what kind of access to users get from search engines?

I don't know the answers to these questions.  Can anybody provide some
more information on this?  I have been told by librarians that over
50% of the usage of their materials came from Google and Google
Scholar, but I neglected to ask the important question:  what kind of
usage?

The link to the Kitchen post is:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/01/30/rediscovering-discovery-how-we-find-things-and-its-implications/

Thank you for your help.

Joe Esposito

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