Title Masked by trust : bias in library discovery / Matthew Reidsma.

Publication Info.	Sacramento, CA : Litwin Books, 2019.
	©2019

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 194 pages) : illustrations
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-190) and index.
Summary	"Examines library discovery systems to show how the algorithms that power them are not the neutral and unbiased systems that they are claimed to be, but are affected by the human biases of programmers and the commercial influences of their production"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents	Algorithms -- Search engines -- Library Discovery -- What is bias? -- Bias in Library Discovery -- Moving forward.
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Subject	Information retrieval -- Social aspects.
	Information retrieval -- Social aspects.
	Information retrieval.
	Search engines -- Programming.
	Search engines -- Programming.
	Online library catalogs.
	Online library catalogs.
	Information storage and retrieval systems.
	Information storage and retrieval systems.
	Filter bubbles (Information filtering)
	Filter bubbles (Information filtering)
	Electronic information resource searching.
	Electronic information resource searching.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: 9781634000833 1634000838 (DLC) 2019010995 (OCoLC)1099546571
ISBN	9781634001014 (electronic book)
	163400101X (electronic book)
	9781634000833
	1634000838