[Web4lib] Indiana Univeristy, Cha-Cha, and guided search

[B.G. Sloan]

  Briggs, Linda L. Inside Indiana U's Move to Cha-Cha: University to bolster research with guided search functionality. Campus Technology, August 8, 2007.
   
  "Indiana University's alliance with search firm ChaCha, announced last week, may portend how universities, librarians, and Internet search engines will work together in the future. The arrangement points up how librarians or other experts can add huge value to scholarly searches through so-called "guided searches" by stepping in to offer access to  vast amounts of material--and expertise--that conventional search engines don't touch."
   
  Full text: http://campustechnology.com/articles/49582/ 
   
  Bernie Sloan

       
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