Case Study
Building A 21 Century Library
BUILDING A 21 ST CENTURY LIBRARY Western Michigan University (WMU) Libraries had a 21st Century problem: its 20th Century catalog wasn’t meeting user or library needs. The growing wealth of the library’s resources was not exposed or easy to find. Pinpointing the right piece of research required multiple searches – a process that trips up and intimidates students. Other libraries were adopting federated search, but WMU found it wouldn’t work f