How Next-Gen R U?

With vendors seeming to abandon their ILS-integrated OPACs in order to develop and promote their discovery tools, we were curious as to just what was the current state of affairs for academic libraries in the quest for the touted NGC. [...] some discovery tools, such as Innovative Interfaces, Inc.âeuro(TM)s Encore, require the legacy catalog for anything but a simple keyword search. The library catalog should be a single search or federated search for all library materials, including pointers to the articles in electronic databases, as well as records of books and digital collections.