This widget is designed to search across multiple databases of New Zealand content for material pertaining to use of e-books in libraries, particularly in a New Zealand context.
The search consists of two parts. The first collates material according to technological aspects of e-readers. That is, records in the various databases that contain terms: (e-reader* OR e-ink OR ebook* OR e book* OR e-book*)
The second part of the search ensures the material returned will be relevant to libraries or New Zealand use of e-books: (New Zealand OR Library)
I choose to use the operator OR between New Zealand and library so as to provide a wider scope to the search i.e. material relating to use of e-books in New Zealand, but not necessarily in libraries could be potentially useful to searchers, as could material relating to use of e-books in libraries in general. As these are New Zealand databases which are being searched, this increases the likelihood that the information found will be relevant to New Zealand.
Regarding usefulness, there seems to be only a limited amount of material in the DigitalNZ databases relating to e-book use in New Zealand. Because of this it could be beneficial to add additional databases which are searched.
However, the relatively small number of matches for search results reflects that there is not an abundance of material written on the subject of e-readers in New Zealand. In this respect, the search performs well by not pulling in irrelevant material.
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