While methods for retrieving documents from large information repositories have improved a
lot, presentation of the retrieved documents still leaves a lot to be desired. Important
information on documents is usually presented as a textual listing of available metadata
attributes such as document size, author information, date of creation, and so on. This
requires the user to read and abstract from the presented metainformat ion. In this paper we
present our lib Viewer system, a Java-Applet interfacing with a number of servers to provide …