But one question that I have been puzzling about it - what will the next
gen google be? Because if we start working on "google-izing" our
catalogue (and that is actually under investigation right now at my
university) aren't we still playing catchup?
Carolyn
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[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of J.P.Knight
Sent: Tuesday, 27 June 2006 4:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Vendors, etc. (was "What LibraryThing means to
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Alexander Johannesen wrote:
> Freakin' excactly! Where is leadership? It does not sit in a commitee,
> I guarantee it, nor in sales meetings nor in application design. The
> Next Generation catalog should be designed with the Next Generation
> *library* in mind, and do we have a friggin' clue as to what that
> might be? C'mon, folks, I dare you; do we *know* what the Next
> Generation library should be?
Yep we do. And its called "Google". :-)
Jim'll (running for cover...)
Received on Tue Jun 27 2006 - 21:25:44 EDT