Do we want or need meta-searching? We should without hesitation answer yes to William J. Frost's question and title of his Backtalk article (LJ 4/1/04, p. 68). Giving patrons what they want is nothing new to libraries. Some users prefer to go no further than an encyclopedia to research a topic, while others want primary source material. Librarians, unlike classroom teachers, who get to know their students over time, cannot easily figure out whether a patron is good-enough searcher or power-searcher, especially when they often have only a few minutes of interaction.
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机译：我们是否需要元搜索？我们应该毫不犹豫地回答威廉·弗罗斯特（William J. Frost）的问题和他的Backtalk文章的标题（LJ 4/1/04，第68页）。向顾客提供他们想要的东西对图书馆来说并不是什么新鲜事。有些用户更喜欢百科全书来研究主题，而另一些用户则希望获得主要的原始资料。图书馆员与课堂老师不同，他们会随着时间的推移了解他们的学生，他们不容易弄清楚顾客是一个足够好的搜索者还是超级搜索者，特别是当他们经常只有几分钟的互动时。
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