Exclude ebooks from "Book" Material Type for searching
Currently, when limiting a search to the material type "Book", electronic resources (eBooks) are displayed as well. It would be nice if the material type "Book" only produced physical book results.
Jennifer Ranger
shared this idea
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Jamie King
commented
I agree with others that there should be an easy way to search for "Books" that are not "eBooks".
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Andrew Teeple
commented
Our patrons and public services staff have asked for this for years. Like @Emma Olmstead-Rumsey noted, it is inconsistent with the way we can limit other searches. It would make it easier for patrons to find exactly what they need in our collections.
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Michael Gregory
commented
This would be a great idea. Less than 3% of our eContent checkouts run through the PAC, in any given month, so the patrons searching the PAC presumably aren't looking for eBooks.
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Emma Olmstead-Rumsey
commented
The inconsistency of this drives me crazy. Why can you search for 'digital but not physical books' but not for 'physical but not digital books'? It doesn't make sense, and more importantly, most of our ebook users are searching our ebook platforms (Libby, hoopla, etc.), not the PAC. The patrons using the PAC are specifically there because they want physical items.