RE: Help!!!!!!

["Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>]

The following article from the October 1 issue of Library Journal might be a
good place to start:

http://tinyurl.com/pb3j

Also, the Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO) has an
RFP out looking for various digital library software products (including
metasearch engines). For some more details, see:

http://office.ilcso.illinois.edu/Reports/dlpc/040212_rept.html 

ILCSO has 65 members, mostly Illinois academic libraries.

Bernie Sloan

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph J. Esposito [mailto:espositoj@worldnet.att.net] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 5:13 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Help!!!!!!

Can someone point me to a summary of the activities at research libraries
to create meta-search engines?  I am interested in learning how extensive
this activity is, whether the development is being done by the
institutions themselves or by integrating third-party search tools, where
this puts Google (and the forthcoming Longhorn) in the scheme of things,
and what were the libraries' motivation to get involved with this
undertaking (which I imagine to be non-trivial, as the Valley geeks say).

Thank you for your help.

Joe Esposito