digital libraries:challenges and influential work

--greatly distributed scholarly info landscape, makes search and discovery of ideas difficult and taxing
--federated search diagram
--seamless federation of resources = "the holy grail" as author states
--several federally supported projects, incl. UC Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan, etc.
--computer and netowkring technology changed over last decade
--digital world rapidly evolving, this affects 1. publishers, 2. publisher consortiums, 3. bibliographic utilities, 4. academic consortia, and so on.
--several university studies focused on the issues of 'search inoperability' and 'federated searching'

--the goal is to extend services in the next few years to provide better quality access--quality of searching efficient access to information