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Michigan In The Novel 2012-2016: A Five-Year Checklist, Robert Beasecker
Michigan In The Novel 2012-2016: A Five-Year Checklist, Robert Beasecker
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Masked By Trust: Bias In Library Discovery, Matthew Reidsma
Masked By Trust: Bias In Library Discovery, Matthew Reidsma
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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 subject to strong commercial pressures that are often hidden behind diffuse collection-development contracts and layers of administration, and they struggle to integrate content from …