Competing with the user experience of open Web searching is a common theme for libraries, and it was the major goal for the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University. But in implementing the Summon web-scale discovery service from Serials Solutions, they uncovered something else. They found a way to free up the librarians’ time to play a more active role in the academic life of the university. “Using Summon, the main desk star

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