Check out this great blog posting from Stephanie Race, the Assistant Director of the Northeast Florida Library Information Network (NEFLIN). She talks about adding a search box to a library webpage and all the great things that came of it.
PowerSearch Works!
Back in May I blogged about how to increase usage of your Gale databases by adding a PowerSearch box to your webpage. I’m pleased to report that Ginny Bird at New River Public Library Cooperative tried it and has seen the usage in the three Coop libraries increase 30 times over the average use for the last seven months. They had just 62 searches in April and 1,917 in May…
You, too, can add one using our simple widget: http://access.gale.com/pse
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This is excellent news! Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to support you.
Since adding a PowerSearch box to the library homepage, our Gale usage for May was nearly 600% higher than May 2007!
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