Our organisation is looking into getting an enterprise search and I was
wondering how many libraries out there have incorporated library
collection into a 'federated' search that would retrieve a whole lot:
a library collection items, external sources (websites, databases),
internal documents
Renata,
We haven't implemented anything yet, but we did recently issue an RFI
for exactly this and evaluated the vendors who responded. Our biggest
challenge is still getting sufficient institutional buy-in. So, we will
likely be conducting small, focused pilots with two different vendors.
I
Renata,
My library has done exactly this and we are in the second year of our
implementation. We are using an enterprise search product and incorporating
several disparate data repositories including a very large citation
database, our library catalog, a fileshare, and some other things
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