Quoting Karen Coyle:
>>returning searches in "folders" that separate actual
content from metadata-only results could be a useful service. I also
think that if we are adding library results then we need a way to
localize the search results -- here are the results from libraries near
you. It's the difference between cyberspace and meat space, and they
require different actions on the part of the searchers.
Yes! Keep this. Plus, turning library results on and off, something like the
hot water tap (or Google Desktop results) as a parameter of searching.
Grace Wiersma
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 12:55 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Finding your library catalogue via Google - was
Vendors, etc. (was "What LibraryThing means to OPACs")
Grace Wiersma wrote:
> The catalog was opened to remote users with the first generation of Web
> OPACS. Aren't the same assumptions still applicable?
I see a significant difference between a user going to a library catalog
and doing a search, and having the results from a library catalog
intermingled with open web searches. I'm not against the latter, but I
worry that as the search results become more heterogeneous, especially
in terms of accessibility, that users will be more confused. Because of
this, I think that returning searches in "folders" that separate actual
content from metadata-only results could be a useful service. I also
think that if we are adding library results then we need a way to
localize the search results -- here are the results from libraries near
you. It's the difference between cyberspace and meat space, and they
require different actions on the part of the searchers.
kc
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