Somewhere Over The Rainbow: Finding Information in the Virtual Learning Environment

How easy is it to find information at the point of need? AARLIN (Australian Academic and Research Library Network) – a consortium of Australian university libraries sets out to explore whether it was possible to streamline user pathways from learning and research environments to information access, information resources and other relevant services at the point of need. The broad model is a library portal which can be accessed on and off campus, and which allows a range of portal features such as user customisation, more effective user access to information resources and services, uniform search interface to a range of resources, a modifiable list of "favourites", a modifiable bookmarks list, saving searches and re-running these, and saving citations.