IntLib Grant

• Dates: 1/05 - 12/07
• Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services - National Leadership Grant for Libraries
• Amount: $498,000
• Principal Investigator: Michael Bieber (NJIT, Information Systems)
• Co-Investigators: Luis Hernandez (Newark Public Library), Il Im (NJIT, Information Systems), Richard Sweeney (NJIT, Van Houten Library), Yi-Fang Wu (NJIT, Information Systems)
• Partners: Newark Public Library, New Jersey Digital Highway, NJIT IS Department, NJIT Van Houten Library

The IntLib Grant focuses on integrating the resources of public libraries primarily (and university libraries secondarily) together with digital libraries. It builds upon the DLSI project. We plan to integrate selected resources within:

• EBSCOhost (at Newark Public Library and NJIT's Van Houten Library)
• Gale's Discovery Collection (at Newark Public Library)
• On-line Catalog Systems (at Newark Public Library and NJIT's Van Houten Library)
• ProQuest (at NJIT's Van Houten Library)
• New Jersey Digital Highway

The funding for the IntegraL and IntLib grants combined will enable us to develop two additional aspects that both projects will then use: a next generation collaborative filtering engine and next generation federated search. (IntLib is funding students and IntegraL is funding faculty to work together on these.)

The IntLib software will be freely available to public libraries and digital libraries to integrate their collections and services (if desired and when permissible, with those of our partners).