[Eril-l] Do users click on the provider facet in Primo or EDS?

[Nagata, Judith]

Hi, Nicole.

In my experience at two other institutions (community college and state
university), the users themselves would not click on or use the databases
facet on their own. However, the Reference & instruction librarians taught
their classes to use this facet to limit a large search to a specific
database (e.g. SocINDEX or Web of Science) to get more authoritative
resources. In both cases the discovery service was EDS and both places had
many EBSCO databases.  I've only been at my current institution for a short
time and I am not as sure what is being taught in library instruction
here.  In any case, I think the facet use depends on how your librarians
view and teach discovery searching.

Judith

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Judith Nagata
Content Strategist
Dinand Library
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610
p: 508-793-2639
e: jnagata at holycross.edu


On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Nicole Trujillo <
Nicole.Trujillo at colorado.edu> wrote:

> Hi all! I am currently at a library that uses Summon as our Discovery
> service. Summon does not have a facet for providers/databases/collections
> like Primo or EDS does. So if I do a search for heart attack I can't limit
> by facet to Medline. My questions for libraries that have this facet is -
> do people actually use it? Or would is it just another facet that gathers
> internet dust?
>
>
> - Nicole
>
>
> *Nicole LeBoeuf Trujillo*
> Access & Discovery Librarian
> University Libraries
> University of Colorado Boulder
> Boulder, Colorado 80309
> T 303-492-0225
> E nicole.trujillo at colorado.edu
>
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