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Today the Quick Search link under Find Information has been disconnected. The was the link to WebFeat our federated search engine. Since WebFeat’s end of live is December 2010, we decided to help with Virtual Library staff work load we would stop maintaining now rather than run it through December. We now have Search By [...]
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Within the next week we expect to pull the plug on WebFeat. Since our contract runs out in December and we have so many databases coming off we are having issues with keeping WebFeat up-to-date. Therefore we are electing to shut down WebFeat a little earlier then expected. We also think it is best to [...]
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WebFeat now has an updated look to look more in line with the new website. Because the end of life for WebFeat is coming at the end of the year, I did not want to spend a lot of time on WebFeat so only the left hand navigation has been removed and the background changed [...]
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WebFeat is being discontinued in December 2010. In order to plan for the future we would like to know your opinion. Please take the poll below.
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After reviewing the usage of our federated search – WebFeat the Virtual Library made a few minor tweaks to help improve the results patrons get when they use it to search the databases. Changed the ranking of articles to Relevancy ranking from grouped. (This was done to both Kids and Adult webfeat). Previous results we [...]
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Since moving to WebFeat Express model we have had the ability to see how much use the the Kids WebFeat was getting. Unfortunate, usage was very low. After talking with a number of YPL staff and Tina in WOW we came to the following conclusions: Teens were not using this site – they go directly to [...]
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The Kids’s WebFeat conversion to WebFeat express is in the final completion stages. This has been a long difficult conversion due to the customization of our Webfeat. There are a few minor tweaks to the kids page which we hope will improve the page for our elementary and middle school students. The page now has [...]
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