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Hi, Today, we’re (finally!) announcing the release of the NCSU Libraries' QuickSearch ( http://search.lib.ncsu.edu/ ) codebase, which can be found here: https://github.com/NCSU-Libraries/quick_search QuickSearch is the custom federated search application with bento-box style results that was initially developed at NCSU Libraries in 2005. The version that we are releasing today is based on a rewrite of the application in Ruby on Rails, and was originally launched into production in May 2014. The aim of the open source release is to provide a toolkit for easily creating custom bento-box search applications. QuickSearch provides core functionality for handling searching multiple sources. It makes it easy to write new searcher modules that interface with your existing library services. We’ve included a Vagrantfile and Ansible playbooks so that you can easily get a working copy of QuickSearch up and running in a virtual environment with only a couple steps, regardless of whether you’re running Windows, Mac, or Linux. This should be considered an early release, and is extracted from the code that we run in production. That being said, we still have some TODO items related to porting some of the functionality over, and improving the documentation. QuickSearch provides a modular environment to create or customize searcher modules and themes, which are published and released as separate gems. We’ve released a few modules that are usable out of the box (don’t require API keys, etc) as examples. We’re looking to maintain a collection of reusable modules to avoid duplication of effort and make it easier to get bento-box search up and running using the services that your library subscribes to. QuickSearch provides search analytics functionality that will collect statistics for each included module automatically, and provides a tabular view of those statistics to aid in assessment. For more information about NCSU Libraries' implementation of QuickSearch and the history of the project, see: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/reports/quicksearch If you have any issues or questions, please contact us. You can send me an email at [log in to unmask] , or if you have a specific issue with the software, feel free to open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/NCSU-Libraries/quick_search/issues Thanks, Kevin Beswick NCSU Libraries