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Nellco’S Universal Search Solution: A Report On A Nasig 2009 Conference Session, Barbara M. Pope

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This article summarizes a session at the 24th Annual North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Conference held in Asheville, NC on June 6, 2009. The presenter for the session, Roberta F. Woods of Franklin Pierce Law Center, gave the history behind the New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO) development of an alternative to a federated search engine that they dubbed Universal Search Solution. The search tool helped the consortia libraries to resolve their problem of underutilized resources.