I think the effort heuristic is behind some of our artificial reverence for anachronistic tools, but there's also a position I often hear hints of that friction/noise/esoteric/etc. search = job security.

There are potentially insurmountable problems with Campus IT approval, etc. – and it also makes for a thorny exit strategy if a customer migrates away from Primo or when the feature is retired. 2/2 #eluna2026

There's a schol comm advocacy side to this too, since, I'm guessing, those chosen journal titles are the ones, more often than not, that are grossly over-priced. 4/4

A big benefit of discovery systems, after all, is that they don't preclude accidental discovery of sources which the user didn't exactly intend to search for. 3/4

As someone who earned their stripes at the reference desk in the days of, "I know the government website has that information, but I need a photocopy of a print source," I would hope there is still some gentle pushback against these scavenger hunt types of criteria. 2/4

I use probabilistic apps for weather, driving, etc., even though they aren't error-free. Not that there's a library shelf with 100% verified facts.

Still can't believe I need to dust off my arguments against, "Wikipedia can be wrong, so it should be banned in education" from 20 years ago.

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