Federated search
Subtitle: solution or setback for online library services
By: Christopher N. Cox, editor.
Contributors: Cox, Christopher N.
Publisher: Haworth Information Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Binghamton, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780789036605
Subjects: Federated searching; Internet in library reference services; Library Web sites
Other titles: Internet reference services quarterly.
Notes: "Co-published simultaneously as Internet reference services quarterly, volume 12, numbers 1/2 & 3/4."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Transforming the metasearch concept into a friendly user experience / Tamar Sadeh; title: The accuracy and thoroughness of a federated search engine in the health sciences / Sandra L. Degroote, Kristina Appelt; title: Developing the right RFP for selecting your federated search product : lessons learned and tips from recent experience / Jerry V. Caswell, John Wynstra; title: Implementation of a federated search system in the academic library : lessons learned / Charles Lockwood, Patricia MacDonald; title: Accidental federated searching : implementing federated searching in the smaller academic library / Nina McHale; title: 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.]; title: Wanted, dead or alive : federated searching for a statewide virtual library / Lauren Fancher; title: User expectations in the time of Google : usability testing of federated searching / Bennett Claire Ponsford, Wyoma Vanduinkerken; title: 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; title: Protocol analysis of a federated search tool : designing for users / Emily Alling, Rachael Naismith; title: User perceptions of Metalib combined search : an investigation of how users make sense of federated searching / Rong Tang, Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Shanyun Zhang; title: Initiating the learning process : a model for federated searching and information literacy / Patrick R. Labelle; title: Librarian perspectives on teaching metasearch and federated search technologies / Lynn D. Lampert, Katherine S. Dabbour; title: Federated searching : instruction and promotion on ARL libraries' web sites / Sarah Robbins, Cheryl McCain; title: 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; title: Maintaining a federated search service : issues and solutions / Jean Rainwater; title: Building custom metasearch interfaces and services using the Metalib X-server / David Walker; title: Build it (and customize and market it) and they will come / Jeff Wisniewski; title: Challenges for federated searching / Peter M. Webster; title: SRU, open data and the future of metasearch / Kevin Reiss; title: Integrating library services : a proposal to enable federation of information and user services / Erik Mitchel; title: Metasearching : an annotated bibliography / LeiLani Freund, John R. Nemmers, Marilyn N. Ochoa.