University Libraries offers new online service
In December 2008, the Murray State University Libraries became the first public academic library in the state of Kentucky to offer a new service we call ThoroSearch. When you first open up Library on Blackboard this semester, you should notice a new search box at the top labeled ThoroSearch. This search capability essentially acts as a Google-for-the-library. ThoroSearch combines in one search most of the libraries’ resources, and only those that represent the academic discipline chosen! If you are doing research in a particular subject, and you are using that subject’s Library on Blackboard page, then the results retrieved will come from appropriate resources, ranked like a search engine. One search, one list – books and articles – for your discipline. You can try it out by visiting http://lib.murraystate.edu/bb and selecting your discipline. Faculty: want a demonstration in your class? Contact your subject librarian or email reference@murraystate.edu.
