Comments on: Next Generation Library Interfaces

By: links for 2009-03-20 | Blog ExtraLibris

links for 2009-03-20 | Blog ExtraLibris — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:02:51 +0000

[...] Next Generation Library Interfaces | David Lee King (tags: bestpractices) [...]

By: Bibliothek und das informelle Lernen « Zukunftswerkstatt 2009

Bibliothek und das informelle Lernen « Zukunftswerkstatt 2009 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:58:30 +0000

[...] werden die digitalen Ressourcen von der Bibliothek leider nur wenig aktiv genutzt. (OCLC-Umfrage zeigt, bei der Recherche im Internet fangen 89 Prozent der Befragten mit Suchmaschinen an, nur 2 Prozent [...]

By: Bibliothek und das informelles Lernen « Zukunftswerkstatt 2009

Bibliothek und das informelles Lernen « Zukunftswerkstatt 2009 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:56:59 +0000

[...] werden die digitalen Ressourcen von der Bibliothek leider nur wenig aktiv genutzt. (OCLC-Umfrage zeigt, bei der Recherche im Internet fangen 89Prozent der Befragten mit Suchmaschinen an, nur 2 Prozent [...]

By: davidleeking

davidleeking — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:33:07 +0000

Cool thoughts, Jaap! What next steps? Start porting to mobile – Aaron’s iphone project is a good start. Their next step should maybe be porting to a blackberry app too, to cover all bases. After all, it’s the DC Public lib – blackberrys rule the business and gov world!

Tools to port stuff over to other things would also be good – Blyberg’s work on that front is good.

What else? Anyone care to chime in?

By: davidleeking

davidleeking — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:33:00 +0000

Tools to port stuff over to other things would also be good – Blyberg’s work on that front is good.

What else? Anyone care to chime in?

By: Jaap van de Geer

Jaap van de Geer — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:23:18 +0000

If we focus on getting the backend right we are free to bring information wherever we want. We will be able to skip the screen part and “how thinks look” and bring our content straight to mobile, because that is were we find things. If you need more information you will return to your pc, television or beamer but at that point it doesn’t matter you are past the catalog. Thanks for the interesting notes David! What steps do you think should we take when it comes to infrastructure? Maybe we can setup a poject exchanging library data to see how far we can take it? Also to reveal major obstacles…

By: Jaap van de Geer

Jaap van de Geer — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:23:00 +0000

By: Roger Hiles

Roger Hiles — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:41:00 +0000

Thanks for the summary!

I agree that “catalog” is just too jargony, almost as bad as “repository”. Jargon is fine for internal use– but the real question is what do our customers need to know about it that is helped by giving it a name? What is Amazon’s “catalog” called?

By: Roger Hiles

Roger Hiles — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:41:00 +0000

Thanks for the summary!

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:29:39 +0000

Totally agree with you regarding a new name for catalog; does it mean anything to anyone outside Library Land? Have you found any good examples of it being rephrased into something that is interesting to a user and relates immediately to their needs?