In July of 2009, Michigan’s Grand Valley State University (GVSU) became the first non-beta library to implement the groundbreaking Summon ™ web-scale discovery service. The fast-growing university —with a student population topping 24,000—was impressed by the service’s all-new technological architecture that promised simple access to vast collections – so simple, in fact, that it was reported to rival the experience of Open Web searching.

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