Building a Tabbed Search for the Library

Abstract

Do you have multiple electronic resources but no way to search across them? Are your patrons confused about their search options? One way to give an "at-a-glance" view of your library's resources is to present patrons with a tabbed search box. Though they may still need to search different resources, you can provide them with a clear view of just what your resources are. Our library uses Voyager from Ex Libris, Inmagic DBTextWorks for SQL, and CONTENTdm; we also want to let users search our Web site. Rather than throw search boxes all around the page, we are building a tabbed search to present all the options together. This presentation shows you how to do the same.