Federated Searching: Solution or Setback?
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Understand federated searching implementation better—and what works best in your library Federated Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services is a comprehensive guide to choosing, implementing, testing, teaching, and marketing federated search products in libraries. Experts in the field and librarians across the United States provide firsthand information on using federated search engines in different types of libraries (small, academic, and consortia), integrating search engines into library Web sites, homegrown upgrades, bidding on a product, other uses for software, and the future of federated searching. Federated Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services explains what factors come into play when choosing which federated search engine is appropriate for a library. This helpful resource discusses how to go out to bid for a product and provides a variety of case examples that illustrate implementation in libraries of different sizes. The book also includes information of what happened once federated search was implemented on various campuses, such as usability studies, teaching issues, getting buy-on from librarians, and marketing to students. -- Provided by publisher
Keywords
Federated searching; Internet in library reference services; Library Web sites;
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9780789036605
Publication Date
2007
Publisher
Haworth Information Press
City
Binghamton, NY
Department
Rod Library
Object Description
453 pages : ill. ; 23 cm
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Cox, Christopher N., "Federated Searching: Solution or Setback?" (2007). Faculty Book Gallery. 294.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/294
