I can't see "I'm feeling lucky" without thinking of the boxer shorts
Google sells as a gag gift, with the phrase all over them.
Now I want boxers with "I've used this stuff" instead.
Tim
On 8/2/07, Ranti Junus <ranti.junus_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Received on Fri Aug 03 2007 - 03:46:58 EDT