Resource discovery for the twenty-first century : case studies and perspectives on the role of IT in user engagement and empowerment

Text includes: Introduction: technology and resource discovery; Flipping the catalogue: taking resource discovery to the next level; Breaking the record: liberating data into knowledge at the National Library Board of Singapore; Case study: clearing library discovery-to-access pathways for IEEE content; Case study: putting discovery at the heart of the library experience; Investigating resource discovery needs at th; e University of Oxford; ""Why can't you just use Google?""; Exposing collections and resources effectively; Open source discovery using Blacklight at the University of Hull; A world of curated knowledge : leveraging the wider semantic web to enhance library discovery; Cultural discovery: trends and futures; Discovering the future

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