[Web4lib] google & library catalogs
arhyno at uwindsor.ca
arhyno at uwindsor.ca
Tue Apr 11 09:59:22 EDT 2006
>Has anyone allowed a search engine to crawl their catalog? What impact
>did it have on the performance? Does your library have a policy about
>search engines crawling your catalog? What factors influenced your
>decision?
If the intent is to get students aware of library resources when they are
doing general google searches, a better approach might be to use google
desktop and a custom plugin. This would only probably be feasible for your
public machines in the library, unless the plugin is extremely seamless,
but google desktop inserts local searches above general searches. You have
to be devious about how you set up a plugin to do something like this, or
your IT folks will not be happy, but it is feasible with enough
groundwork.
art
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Art Rhyno
Systems Librarian
Leddy Library, University of Windsor
http://librarycog.uwindsor.ca
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