On 6/7/06, Iris Jastram <ijastram_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> The current system is very good at inventory control and management, and
> it's very good at known-item location. But it's not very nimble when it
> comes to information discovery and guiding users through a complex system in
> the most intuitive way possible, and I think that's where librarians get
> worried. Information discovery is the whole point!
Is the worry that if the library becomes more like google, it'll
inherit some of the same problems (such as the difficulty in judging
the quality of scholarship)?
Are you talking about doing smart-ish linking between works when, for
example, they have statistically improbable phrases (probably an
Amazon trademark)?
Are there prior OPAC usability studies? Is there, in general, a
consensus on what "better" is?
Received on Wed Jun 07 2006 - 10:48:45 EDT