Read this article this evening, which I recommend as a high-level view describing the changes in library discovery systems.
The author, Carol Pitts Diedrichs, does a nice job of tying together information on current search/fulfillment system trends. Her view of these systems (NCSU's Endeca; WorldCat Local; Encore) as transitional, designed to improve search for current users, is a sound one. The section "Discovery-Where We Are Going" describes a range of options for libraries to present resources (Google Scholar, Flickr, Wikipedia, Google Books...), but in practical terms, providing any kind of cohesive service requires a unified search system like that envisioned by Mike Eisenberg; this quotation is included in the article: "the simple but powerful 'Google search box' is a model for what we need in libraries-beyond federated search, this means one-step access to the full-text of library resources" (81).
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