University of Liverpool Library launches to the public an open beta of the Summon web-scale discovery service, a groundbreaking instant search of the full breadth of the content found in its library collections. In addition to the librarians who have already been testing it actively, the Summon service is now being used by students and faculty to search the holdings of the library – physical and digital – from a single search box. The University of Liverpool Library is the first European open beta site for this service and only the second public instance in the world behind Dartmouth College Library which just opened its beta site to the public in June. The Summon service has been developed by Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest.
source: Library Technology Update; 8/1/2009
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