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Description

A search will return all relevant CDI results regardless of availability. Users will see electronic article and ebook results that are available online as well as those they must submit a request for.

A search will only return CDI results with full text availability. Articles and ebooks that must be requested are filtered out.

Pros

• being able to find literally anything that's in the cdi. Risk around known item and niche materials not being surfaced when things are filtered.

• Ex Libris expects that libraries are filtering. (that’s a pro?)

• Hides unavailable stuff from undergraduates. Simplifies the results and gets them stuff that gets their assignments completed.

Cons

• exposes undergrads to a lot of unavailable stuff and they did NOT like that. Looks like half the stuff in library is unavailable.

• There is painfully bad, absolute junk in the CDI

• Some stuff is impossible to ILL. (dissertations, that only exist in one place. Datasets. Collections of CDI like NDL)

• Existing issue with real time availability makes some available items not show up because system isn’t processing them right.

• grad/faculty searching for known items are unable to find what they need.

• user selection fatigue because of all of the options on the left hand side.

• Some confusion about “expanding” while all other filters limit results.

• Can’t get people to toggle unfilter.