Information Wants To Be Free on the failure of middleware

Meredith, who writes the blog Information Wants To Be Free, has written a series entitled "The Failure of Middleware" (e.g., OPACs). So far, she has written seven postings in this series. The titles are:

• The Failure of Middleware, Part 1: What’s the Problem?
• The Failure of Middleware, Part 2: Who are our users?
• The Failure of Middleware, Part 3: How do we measure up?
• The Failure of Middleware, Part 4: What works?
• The Failure of Middleware, Part 5: The Unintegrated Library System & Federated Search
• The Failure of Middleware, Part 6: Link Resolvers
• The Failure of Middleware, Part 7: OAI and Google Scholar

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