http://www.web2learning.net/archives/988 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. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:23:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.web2learning.net/archives/988#comment-78352 LibrayThing makes subject indexing not suck « Jakoblog — Das Weblog von Jakob Voß Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:08:44 +0000 http://www.web2learning.net/archives/988#comment-78352 [...] From a library and information science point of view the feature is little more then saved searches for boolean retrieval in a collaborative subject indexing system. But this “little more” makes the difference: It’s the interface, stupid! You can create elaborated queries with OR, AND, and NOT in library catalouges and information retrieval systems since decades but most users don’t even know about it - it’s just too complicated and last but not least: it’s not fun! [...] [...] From a library and information science point of view the feature is little more then saved searches for boolean retrieval in a collaborative subject indexing system. But this “little more” makes the difference: It’s the interface, stupid! You can create elaborated queries with OR, AND, and NOT in library catalouges and information retrieval systems since decades but most users don’t even know about it - it’s just too complicated and last but not least: it’s not fun! [...]

]]> http://www.web2learning.net/archives/988#comment-71679 The OPLIN 4cast » Blog Archive » OPLIN 4cast #61 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:06:58 +0000 http://www.web2learning.net/archives/988#comment-71679 [...] Future of the Catalog (What I Learned Today…) [...] [...] Future of the Catalog (What I Learned Today…) [...]

]]> http://www.web2learning.net/archives/988#comment-67470 What I Learned Today… » Blog Archive » WorldCat Identities Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:52:53 +0000 http://www.web2learning.net/archives/988#comment-67470 [...] CIL last year I briefly mentioned the WorldCat was going to have a new service (WorldCat Identities). Well, this just in from the [...] [...] CIL last year I briefly mentioned the WorldCat was going to have a new service (WorldCat Identities). Well, this just in from the [...]

]]> http://www.web2learning.net/archives/988#comment-39876 The state of our libraries, and beyond « The Fifth Law Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:46:37 +0000 http://www.web2learning.net/archives/988#comment-39876 [...] great post from the Computers in Libraries Conference, reporting from two related presentations on the future of the catalog (featuring Tim Spalding of LibraryThing and Roy Tennant of OCLC).  From Roy’s presentation, [...] [...] great post from the Computers in Libraries Conference, reporting from two related presentations on the future of the catalog (featuring Tim Spalding of LibraryThing and Roy Tennant of OCLC).  From Roy’s presentation, [...]

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