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Abstract
In 1998 WebFeatâ„¢ took the simple idea of allowing libraries to search any or all of their databases at the same time through a simple, common user interface and turned this idea into a product. Yet, four areas in the traditional process proved to be major time consumers: installation of the application at the customer site, tailoring the user interface to meet customer needs, identifying and configuring the resources that should be searched, and keeping the site and configuration information up-to-date. The new product is WebFeat Express, a budget friendly way for libraries to implement federated searching.