"Co-published simultaneously as Internet reference services quarterl y, volume 12, numbers 1/2 & 3/4."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-430) and index.

Transforming the metasearch concept into a friendly user experience / Tamar Sadeh -- The accuracy and thoroughness of a federated search en gine in the health sciences / Sandra L. Degroote, Kristina Appelt -- De veloping the right RFP for selecting your federated search product : le ssons 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 -- Acc idental federated searching : implementing federated searching in the s maller academic library / Nina McHale -- Do we step together, in the sa me direction, at the same time? : how a consortium approached a federat ed 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 examinat ion of the crucial roles of technical, functional, and usability testin g / Susan Avery, David Ward, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe -- Protocol analys is of a federated search tool : designing for users / Emily Alling, Rac hael Naismith -- User perceptions of Metalib combined search : an inves tigation of how users make sense of federated searching / Rong Tang, In grid Hsieh-Yee, Shanyun Zhang -- Initiating the learning process : a mo del for federated searching and information literacy / Patrick R. Label le -- Librarian perspectives on teaching metasearch and federated searc h technologies / Lynn D. Lampert, Katherine S. Dabbour -- Federated sea rching : 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 B eth Minick, John W. Eiszner -- Maintaining a federated search service : issues and solutions / Jean Rainwater -- Building custom metasearch in terfaces and services using the Metalib X-server / David Walker -- Buil d 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 serv ices / Erik Mitchel -- Metasearching : an annotated bibliography / LeiL ani Freund, John R. Nemmers, Marilyn N. Ochoa.