University of Illinois

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Library will develop and test prototype library portals designed to enhance resource integration in academic libraries. The project will develop portal mechanisms that better integrate a library’s multiple search and discovery tools and provide enhanced access to distributed primary and secondary information. Utilizing transaction log analysis, focus groups, and individual interviews, the research team will investigate the utility of search assistance techniques. The portal mechanisms developed in this project will be useful to the development of next-generation resource discovery and metasearch systems.