Federated search : solution or setback for online library services /

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Imprint:Binghamton, NY : Haworth Information Press, c2007.
Description:453 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Federated searching.
Internet in library reference services.
Library Web sites.
Federated searching.
Internet in library reference services.
Library Web sites.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6824361
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Other uniform titles:Internet reference services quarterly.
Other authors / contributors:Cox, Christopher N.
ISBN:9780789036605 (alk. paper)
0789036606 (alk. paper)
Notes:"Co-published simultaneously as Internet reference services quarterly, volume 12, numbers 1/2 & 3/4."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-430) and index.
Table of 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.