Andrew Asher, assessment librarian at Indiana U. at Bloomington, studied how students use new library search tools. “It’s a logical impossibility to create a querying tool that doesn’t have any form of bias,” he says. Many professors and students gravitate to Google as a gateway to research. Libraries want to offer them a comparably simple and broad experience for searching academic content. As a
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