’tis a bit oblique without my voiceover, but gives you some idea of what I discussed at ASERL‘s “Age of Discovery” conference yesterday. (For example, it doesn’t include my explanation that after Dewey and Cutter had a fallout, Dewey got the big numbers and Cutter got the small ones.)
Posted on this day, other years:
- To Boise, to WilsWorld, and to Present on Creative Nonfiction - 2008
- LibraryLand Skills, Part Deux - 2006
- LibraryLand Skills for Any Century - 2006
- It Really Was All Good - 2005
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Hi Karen,
In your slides you mention that both Andrew Pace and yourself have statistics that can reassure us that users still like to browse. Can I trouble you to ask if these stats are readily available, and if so, where?
I ask because I’m working on a white paper for a sub-committee called Scholars Portage (“Getting research from one body to another”) in which we are trying to highlight the opportunities for our consortium of libraries to incorporate more ‘social’ means of sharing and organizing information (through standards, the semantic web, making our metadata ‘work harder’) etc.
If this is possible, much thanks — and if other work needs your attention – then I understand. Take care.
Hey, Mita, I do have those buried in my 2001-2002 files; I’ll dig. You might want to email Andrew directly since I’m not sure he reads my blog.
Not sure I read your blog! Really now 😉
Though the exact slides from ASERL are not there yet (they will be this week), you can see much the same information and more in any of the Endeca presentations we have done at NCSU. They are available here: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/endeca/presentations.html
Well… one mustn’t presume 😉
Much thanks!
Scholr 2.0: a white paper from Scholars Portage is now available for public consumption. Unfortunately, we didn’t end up directly taking on the subject of browsing, although we did spend some time on some technologies (social bookmarking) and practices (surfacing metadata) that could make for better browsing experiences.
Mita, that is way cool! I almost missed the importance of it and the fact that you used CommentPress. I am going to do kind of a Fall Fashion post for Techsource very shortly, and this will be high on the list. Much to discuss.