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UCSC: Our default search profile, “Articles, books, and more” is set to filter by availability

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Our local team prioritizes undergraduate student success when making design and configuration decisions. In our testing with undergraduate students indicates that students expect most materials in UC Library Search to be available immediately (either online or on the shelf). We found that not filtering by availability too frequently retrieved results where fewer than 70% of items were availability immediately. We are concerned about the obstacles filtering by availability presents for users attempting to find known item CDI materials that are not “available” and we continue to work on interface changes to facilitate the discovery of these materials.

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