Comments on: Stop Arguing and Do Something http://www.web2learning.net/archives/3312 Web 2.0 and programming tips from a library technology enthusiast, What I Learned Today... covers blogs, rss, wikis and more as they relate to libraries. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:46:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: If You Patrons Continually Use Your Catalog the Wrong Way the Problem Isn’t Them, It’s You | Librarian by Day http://www.web2learning.net/archives/3312/comment-page-1#comment-159121 If You Patrons Continually Use Your Catalog the Wrong Way the Problem Isn’t Them, It’s You | Librarian by Day Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:43:16 +0000 http://www.web2learning.net/?p=3312#comment-159121 [...] was reading through an article (Found via What I Learned Today) on The Chronicle of Higher Education website about improving library catalog search [...] [...] was reading through an article (Found via What I Learned Today) on The Chronicle of Higher Education website about improving library catalog search [...]

]]> By: Nicole http://www.web2learning.net/archives/3312/comment-page-1#comment-156534 Nicole Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:14:50 +0000 http://www.web2learning.net/?p=3312#comment-156534 Dave, I love that analogy!! And yes, these comments are very scary. Dave,

I love that analogy!! And yes, these comments are very scary.

]]> By: Dave Hook http://www.web2learning.net/archives/3312/comment-page-1#comment-156533 Dave Hook Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:59:29 +0000 http://www.web2learning.net/?p=3312#comment-156533 Wow - thanks for pointing this out. You mean that the library world is still sticking its head in the sand and claiming that it is the user that is broken? We put years and years of research into the best ways to organize and classify information right down to the point of debating such minutia as whether to use a comma or semicolon to separate terms. Then Google comes along and builds something so simple and intuitive to use that finds relevant results and librarians dismiss it. Sure, the general Google user won't find as much as an expert library system user would, but considering the ease of use of Google, there is a lot that library systems can learn. Some of the comments posted on that article really scare me for the future of this profession. They come across like carriage-makers dismissing the new automobile as a fad, rather than recognizing a changing trend and adapting their businesses to deal with it. Wow – thanks for pointing this out. You mean that the library world is still sticking its head in the sand and claiming that it is the user that is broken? We put years and years of research into the best ways to organize and classify information right down to the point of debating such minutia as whether to use a comma or semicolon to separate terms. Then Google comes along and builds something so simple and intuitive to use that finds relevant results and librarians dismiss it. Sure, the general Google user won’t find as much as an expert library system user would, but considering the ease of use of Google, there is a lot that library systems can learn.

Some of the comments posted on that article really scare me for the future of this profession. They come across like carriage-makers dismissing the new automobile as a fad, rather than recognizing a changing trend and adapting their businesses to deal with it.

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