This article was a behind the scene look at North Carolina State University's new information access platform. The article was fairly comprehensive on the methodology that went behind the design of the system and and the improvements it made.
What struck me most about the new system was how it interacted with the user. What and how other's searched mattered, allowing the system learn from the user. Moreover, I never really though about how inefficient searches currently are. The search test results against web searches were fairly drastic, saving time and gaining accuracy.
My question is whether other institutions will choose to adopt the same system, or will it become a race to see who can develop the best system for harvesting information.
K. Antelman, E. Lynema, A. K. Pace (2006). "Toward a Twenty-First Century Library Catalog". Information Technology & Libraries, 25:3. 128-139 (
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