Man, speaking of techie patrons not liking an interface… Someone in a web community I frequent linked to a newspaper article, noting that you could only read the first bit for free and the rest was paywalled. I thought, hey, I *totally* bet you could read that for free online through the library site. So [...]
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Guest post: Notes from a techie patron, part 1
June 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
One of the recurring themes of my library science education has been that I see conversations about information all the time — some at school from a library perspective, and some at home from a computer science perspective; as a dot-com-era engineering school graduate married to same, I have a social circle dominated by software [...]
data mining for fun and…
November 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
That slideset yesterday was funny, so I’ve RSSed the guy’s blog. Liked this recent post about data-mining your circ records. His university now has a recommender system (both “people who liked this book also liked” and “people in this course of study tend to like”) and a course-of-study-specific search functionality (nursing and law students want [...]
Tags:data mining·dave pattern·discovery layers·findability·library 2.0·opacs·user needs
lipstick, cowbells, and serendipity!
November 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Hilarious slideset on library 2.0 OPAC features with a great subtitle — “Utilising Web 2.0 in the OPAC: lipstick, cowbells and serendipity.”.
“why google and apple win and you don’t”
October 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
This cartoon doesn’t realize that it’s making the same claim as discovery interfaces and other current OPAC design thinking, but it is.
Tags:findability·funny·opacs·usability
