Monthly reviews of catalog search activity logs by Delaware Library Catalog patrons have consistently shown that one of the main reasons patrons experience unsuccessful book searches or misleading results is from simply mis-spelling title words or author names when using the catalog.
Previously, an unsuccessful search would only provide a browseable list of terms following alphabetically from the incorrectly-spelled entry. Not so helpful! We recently installed the Lucien spell-checking add-on into iBistro, after a period of testing in the test server. Lucien checks the mis-spelled word against a constantly updated database and offers a simple and intuitive "did you mean?" choice. Clicking on the alternative spelling will automatically re-run the search and return the results the patron was looking for. We hope that this tool will be helpful for our younger patrons, persons with limited English proficiency, and hasty typists.
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