I don’t remember who originally linked to this screed opining that librarians should gird themselves for obsolescence (oh, Tab Candy, your ability to add metadata to tab groups cannot come soon enough), but this quote: It is time to end the epidemic of Munchausen by Proxy in our public service librarians, and instead acknowledge that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'user experience'
marketing libraries, desire lines, metaphors like water
July 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
On Twitter, Andrea Snyder (great lunch companion, btw) pointed me to a post on marketing libraries, from which the following struck me: A major point he made on signage was that, if you have to put up a sign to say what something isn’t, that indicates a problem elsewhere. (Side note: second time I’ve seen [...]
Tags:acrl·andrea snyder·bicycling·desire lines·lisa janicke hinchliffe·marketing the library·user experience
all the news that’s fit to print (but not find)
June 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
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 [...]
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 [...]
