Enhancements to MetaLib Federated Search Tool for U.S. Federal Government Information

This is an update to the Library Boy post of October 18, 2010 entitled MetaLib Federated Search Tool for U.S. Federal Government Information.

The Metalib search tool, which allows users to simultaneously search through multiple collections of United States government, legislative, technical and scientific information, recently announced a number of enhancements:

• in Advanced search, it is possible to search for freedom-of-information (FOI) requests
• there are a number of new databases that have been added: in addition to those pertaining to FOI, there are new Department of Energy collections, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Historical Maps and Charts and access to library catalogues of agencies such as the U.S. Fire Administration Library