[Web4lib] Re: Google Search Appliance and OPACs

[Peter Murray]

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Someone sent me a correction privately -- the GSA experiment was  
conducted by the Franklin Pierce Law Center.  Thank you, Karen M., for  
refreshing my memory.


Peter

On Feb 6, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Peter Murray wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Gem Stone-Logan wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, has anyone experimented with using the Google  
>> Search
>> appliance for retrieving information from an ILS database?  If so,  
>> what was
>> your experience with it?  I'm thinking of an implementation where  
>> Google
>> retrieves the results but then points the user to specific OPAC  
>> records.
>
> There was some work done in the NELLCO consortium in advance of  
> their IMLS Leadership Grant.  I think Northeastern U was the lead  
> institution, but I don't have any further details.

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