How nice to read a success story for government funded research. Actually, I know there are many funded programs that are accomplishing great things, but the Digital Library Initiatives really created some lasting success. We are in fact beneficiaries of this success; I've used a lot of full text digital articles for LIS 2000 and we have also used many in this class. Google came out of it and it would be a challenge to find anyone that hasn't at least heard of it.
The federated search model discussed in this article is a very ambitious goal, but well worth doing. Many of the pieces are in development and I for one will be glad to be a part of it, if I can. Certainly, libraries should be part of the development of such an integrated solution and be at the forefront of offering it as part of normal services.
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