Nina McHale (University of Colorado Denver) discussed the hype of federated search engines and discovery interface tools. These high levels of overblown expectation have led to consistent disappoint with the performance and lack of features of these systems, hence the title. [Unrealistic expectations, I might add.]
The lack of features is in comparison to the native [...]
Why Reference and Instruction Librarians Hate Federated Searching and NextGen Catalogs
Tom, October 5th 2009
