Library Journal: Oregon Debuts LibraryFind

“There’s a new kid on the (meta)search block. LibraryFind, an
open source project funded by the State Library of Oregon, is
currently live at Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis, but the
library has just packaged up a release for anyone to download and
install. Jeremy Frumkin, Gray Chair for Innovative Library Services
at OSU, said the project’s goals were to contribute to the support
of scholarly workflow, remove barriers between the library and web
information, and establish the digital library as platform.

“Terry Reese, OSU catalog librarian and developer of popular
application MarcEdit, and developer Dan Chudnov used the following
guiding principles: two clicks–one to find, one to get; a goal of
getting results in four seconds; and known and adjustable results
ranking…”

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