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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > So, Bill, you're still not certain yourself exactly what purposes browse is used for by actual non-librarian searchers, if anything? Right. I'm not sure *the extent* to which it's used (data which are necessarily going to be messy and partially driven by how prevalent browse vs search are in the interface), and I certainly don't know what's going through people's heads when they choose to use it (on those occasions when they make a conscious choice to use browse in addition to/instead of search). My attempts to find stuff in the research literature failed me; if anyone has other pointers, I'd love to read them! (If only there was a real librarian around to help poor little me...) -Bill-