Re: User tasks--outdated? Why?

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:57:35 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Oct 19, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:

> 2. Once users "obtain" your tasks end. But what users do AFTER  
> obtaining
>    is what really matters. They read, annotate, share, compare, re- 
> mix,
>    etc. Does bibliographic data have any role here? Not in your  
> scenario.



Yes, I concur with this. Finding the information is only the first  
(tiny) part of the problem to be solved. In fact, in today's world,  
finding is easier and easer. What needs to be done is figuring out  
ways to USE the information once it is found and acquired. I outlined  
a number of these tasks in a previous post:

   http://pln.palinet.org/wiki/index.php/Future_catalogs:_food_for_thought

-- 
Eric Morgan
Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
Received on Mon Oct 19 2009 - 13:03:19 EDT