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Federated search : solution or setback for online library services

Title
Federated search : solution or setback for online library services / Christopher N. Cox, editor.
Publication
Binghamton, NY : Haworth Information Press, [2007], ©2007.
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Cox, Christopher N.
Description
453 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Uniform Title
Internet reference services quarterly.
Subject
  • Federated searching
  • Internet in library reference services
  • Library Web sites
Note
  • "Co-published simultaneously as Internet reference services quarterly, volume 12, numbers 1/2 & 3/4."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-430) and index.
Contents
Transforming the metasearch concept into a friendly user experience / Tamar Sadeh -- The accuracy and thoroughness of a federated search engine in the health sciences / Sandra L. Degroote, Kristina Appelt -- Developing the right RFP for selecting your federated search product : lessons learned and tips from recent experience / Jerry V. Caswell, John Wynstra -- Implementation of a federated search system in the academic library : lessons learned / Charles Lockwood, Patricia MacDonald -- Accidental federated searching : implementing federated searching in the smaller academic library / Nina McHale -- Do we step together, in the same direction, at the same time? : how a consortium approached a federated search implementation / Lori S. Mestre ... [et al.] -- Wanted, dead or alive : federated searching for a statewide virtual library / Lauren Fancher -- User expectations in the time of Google : usability testing of federated searching / Bennett Claire Ponsford, Wyoma Vanduinkerken -- Planning and implementing a federated searching system : an examination of the crucial roles of technical, functional, and usability testing / Susan Avery, David Ward, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe -- Protocol analysis of a federated search tool : designing for users / Emily Alling, Rachael Naismith -- User perceptions of Metalib combined search : an investigation of how users make sense of federated searching / Rong Tang, Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Shanyun Zhang -- Initiating the learning process : a model for federated searching and information literacy / Patrick R. Labelle -- Librarian perspectives on teaching metasearch and federated search technologies / Lynn D. Lampert, Katherine S. Dabbour -- Federated searching : instruction and promotion on ARL libraries' web sites / Sarah Robbins, Cheryl McCain -- A nontraditional application of metasearch : using Ex Libris' Metalib to enhance delivery of full-text articles in a university campus course management system / Kathleen A. Hanna, Mary Beth Minick, John W. Eiszner -- Maintaining a federated search service : issues and solutions / Jean Rainwater -- Building custom metasearch interfaces and services using the Metalib X-server / David Walker -- Build it (and customize and market it) and they will come / Jeff Wisniewski -- Challenges for federated searching / Peter M. Webster -- SRU, open data and the future of metasearch / Kevin Reiss -- Integrating library services : a proposal to enable federation of information and user services / Erik Mitchel -- Metasearching : an annotated bibliography / LeiLani Freund, John R. Nemmers, Marilyn N. Ochoa.
ISBN
  • 9780789036605 (alk. paper)
  • 0789036606 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006101753
  • 99933240489
OCLC
  • ocm80019100\
  • 80019100
  • SCSB-14491246
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries