We teach people to start with where they are, with the words they have in
their heads, with they know and can give language to and them we teach them
find something online that meets their interests, usually in a more
refined way than they understood their question when they started the
search. Put differently, we reduce a zillion-million hits the user gets
when they submit the words they know to the 50 or 500 that they, the user,
may actually find useful to their needs at that time.
> [Original Message]
> From: Casey Durfee <casey_at_LIBRARYTHING.COM>
> To: <NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu>
> Date: 12/20/2007 5:20:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] AquaBrowser in beta at U. Chicago
>
> On 12/20/07, Nancy Cochran <nancy.cochran_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > Aquabrowser introduces a
> > naive user to new material and new ideas. But that is not why we teach
> > people to search.
> >
>
>
> Why *do* we teach people to search?
> Why do we *teach* people to search?
> Why do *we* teach people to search?
>
> The way I see it, introducing a naive user to new material and new ideas
is
> kind of the whole point of libraries. Ranganathan FTW:
>
> 1. Books are for use.
> 2. Books are for all.
> 3. Every book its reader.
> 4. Save the time of the reader.
> 5. The library is a growing organism.
>
>
> --Casey
Received on Thu Dec 20 2007 - 17:36:14 EST