Abstract
Excerpt: Our library implemented a web-scale discovery interface at the beginning of the fall semester. One major reason given by many libraries opting for these tools is that they increase the library's return on its investment in materials by grouping all resources so that they can be searched a la Google, with one search box. What interested me, however, in implementing this system, was the way in which we get the metadata for the discovery interface. In the past, when our patrons searched a database, or a vendor's group of databases, they would search only the metadata for the titles that are indexed in that database. If the database did not offer the full text of an article, a link resolver (such as SFX) allowed them to find it in another source. And if the library didn't have that other source, then they had the option to request an article by interlibrary loan.