I believe the Zoomii interface has a lot of potential. It works well for
what it does because it represents a small bookstore collection. But I
don't really see that scalability would be a problem for a larger
collection if you beefed up the browsing options: more specific
headings, tag clusters, user lists. And, for use as a library
application, I'd like to see options for subject heading and LC
classification browsing.
Geoff
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Geoff Sinclair
Manager of Technical Services
Education Centre Library, Nipissing University / Canadore College
Tel: 705-474-3450 x4439
E-mail: geoffs_at_nipissingu.ca
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Steven Harris wrote:
> Regarding a virtual browse of the shelves: I'm not sure it will work very well for a collection of, say, 2 million volumes. Maybe I'm just too tied to text and books covers would work fine, but seems like it would be unwieldy with very large collections.
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> Well, it's cute, but I'm not convinced this kind of 'real life' analogy style interface works particularly well on computers. I remember several years ago seeing a description of a 'virtual desktop', that looked like a real desk, and where you had to 'go to the post office' to send an email - what a pain, when you can just click send!
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> I think experimentation should be encouraged and so it is really nice to see this type of thing being tried, but I tried to use it and found it incredibly clunky - it has impact, but I don't personally believe it has staying power - personally I wouldn't use it instead of Amazon to browse.
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Received on Thu Jun 26 2008 - 08:36:09 EDT