This article is a write-up of a talk I attended in May 2013 at the “Ebooks 2013” conference organised by the UCL DIS team. Richard Wallis’ talk resonated with me particularly as I’ve a dual-role as Information Services Librarian at LeedsMet University: cataloguing and ebooks management. Wallis began his talk by explaining that very few students begin their information journeys with library public catalogues or discovery systems. Predictably, most queries begin on Google, where “Google” is used as a catchall term to cover all major search engines: Bing, Yahoo, Baidu etc.
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