RES: What do you call your discovery search engine?

[Amy Drayer]

Dear Jonathan et al:

I am willing to be the black sheep and say naming something should be
avoided. If you have Summon, call it what it is to the user: article search
or better yet, don't use a name at all if you can. Someone will see the
search box and type in it. I see groups get all caught up in naming
something and putting big logos on it, and it doesn't improve the user
experience (unless it truly clarifies what it does, e.g. "article search"
if it only does article searches).

So, my recommendation would be nothing, or if it is to replace most of your
search interface and needs a label that isn't just "search" or "find" as a
submit button label, then perhaps "search our collections"? (Not sure I
like that one). Keep it simple. :-)

In peace,

Amy M. Drayer, MLIS
Senior IT Specialist, Web Developer
amostrom at gmail.com
http://www.puzumaki.com


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> De: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] Em
> nome de Jonathan Bloy
> Enviada em: terça-feira, 16 de junho de 2015 14:05
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> Assunto: [WEB4LIB] What do you call your discovery search engine?
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> We're thinking about a name for the discovery engine we will be getting,
> and are looking for ideas.  If your library's discovery search engine has a
> name (other than the vendor name), what is it?
>
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> Jonathan Bloy
> Librarian, Head of Digital Initiatives
> Edgewood College
> Madison, Wisconsin
> http://library.edgewood.edu
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