I suddenly got the impression that there would be three kind of user
interfaces available:
"I'm feeling lucky"
"I've used this stuff"
"I totally pwnd this stuff"
ranti.
On 8/2/07, Michael Fitzgerald <mike_at_jazzdiscography.com> wrote:
> At 11:34 AM 8/2/2007, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> >Instead, it's having systems that meet the users where they are at, that
> >work for the high school students AND the faculty AND provide the
> >'ladder' to move from one to the other.
>
> And the 'ladder' is bibliographic instruction. It might (partly) be
> computerized, adaptive, and transparent or it might be (gasp!) an
> actual human librarian who has teaching skills in addition to a
> thorough knowledge of the relevant tools. You don't get from 'high
> school students' to 'faculty' without education. Just adding pizza
> and waiting six years time doesn't do it. Pretending that people will
> get smarter by using the lite version of the tools doesn't make sense
> to me. And trying to make the lite version give you everything that
> the real deal does simply avoids the issue. Academic libraries, at
> least, ought to be creating power users who can use the real deal
> effectively to squeeze the maximum out of the catalog. College
> seniors who are still always using the single search box (for
> research) have not learned what they ought to have.
>
> Mike
>
>
> mike at jazzdiscography.com
> www.jazzdiscography.com
>
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