to do - adapt to users.
Peter
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
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Steve Oberg
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 12:15 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Enterprise Search and library collection
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Renata and others,
After posting my original reply I realized how dumb it was to respond but
say, sorry, can't tell you more. As an aside, this is one of the things
that irritates me the most about working in a for profit environment: the
control exerted by MPOW over just about anything. But
: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
Steve Oberg
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:21 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Enterprise Search and library collection
[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Renata and others,
After posting my original reply I realized how dumb
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
