Presented at the SLA 2007 Annual Conference in Denver, CO to the Science and Technology Division (Sci-Tech) on a program entitled: "Federated Searching: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly." Based on an article in Searcher and with additional contributions from Kathy Dabbour and Lynn Lampert on user and librarian assessment of Federated Searching.
1. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of Federated Searching By Doris Helfer, Chair, Library Technical Services, and Science Librarian, CSU Northridge Jina Wakimoto, Faculty Director for Cataloging and Metadata Services Dept., University of Colorado at Boulder SLA Annual Conference June 5, 2007
23. Falling Down the Portal: Adventures in Federated Metasearch Technology at California State University Northridge Full Presentation by Lynn Lampert, Coordinator of Instruction & Information Literacy, Metalib Implementation Task Force Member at California State University Northridge Katherine Strober Dabbour, Library Assessment Coordinator and HSI Grant Project Director at California State University, Northridge at LITA National Forum, San Jose, California October 1, 2005
Good morning. My colleague Doris and I wrote an article in ‘Searcher magazine in 2005 with the title, “Metasearching: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Making it Work in Your Library,” and here we are presenting in a very aptly-named program two years later. I will first describe the implementation process and strategy for MetaLib at Cal State Northridge, our observations of what is good, bad and the ugly, then what we can anticipate as some improvements with federated searching technology. Doris will report on user assessment study conducted by CSUN colleagues.
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