Submitted by Tom Peters on June 24, 2006 - 8:35am
The skies
were relatively clear—but hot and humid, of course--when I flew into New Orleans midday on Friday. Even from the air I could detect something
different about New Orleans. Quite a few of the homes and businesses still have bright blue tarps
covering part or all of the roofs. I
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Submitted by Karen G. Schneider on June 21, 2006 - 12:39pm
Submitted by Teresa Koltzenburg on June 19, 2006 - 11:17pm
 **UPDATE, June 20 @ 10:53 a.m., Chicago, IL**
Tom Wilson will also be a member of LITA's Top Technology Trends Panel on Sunday. He was mistakenly left off the list. Sorry, Tom!
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Submitted by Tom Peters on June 6, 2006 - 11:36am
About 250 years ago, soon after his dictionary of the English language had been published, Dr. Samuel Johnson was asked by a woman how the incorrect definition of a pastern had crept into the final, published product. According to James Boswell's biography of Johnson, "…instead of making an elaborate defence, as she expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'"
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Submitted by Teresa Koltzenburg on May 28, 2006 - 12:45am
We have jumped into that laboratory experience together and are learning together. Ten project teams are formulating collaborative projects as a means of learning. As I look at those project statements and at the posts that share the ongoing thinking process, I believe that this work will have lasting value to us—individually and collectively—beyond the life of this particular prototype process.—Mary Ghikas: Library 2.0 :: ConceptMore and more, I find myself filing posts on the ALA TechSource Blog under "ALA News" and "Library 2.0." I expect that to continue. Read More »
Submitted by Michael Stephens on May 22, 2006 - 9:10pm
Chad Boeninger is a Reference & Instruction Librarian at the Alden Library of Ohio University. He works as a bibliographer with faculty in the College of Business and the Department of Economics to develop the library's collections and is also available to help students and faculty members with their research needs in person, via IM, and via a resource he created: The Biz Wiki.
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Submitted by Karen G. Schneider on May 20, 2006 - 10:57am
In my two (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) earlier pieces on this topic, I focused very narrowly on some fairly obvious limitations with online catalogs, limiting my discussion to weaknesses in OPAC searching from the user's point of view.
There are other issues with online catalogs much bigger and more problematic than search results—problems that can't be addressed by improving relevance ranking or adding spell-check (however valuable those features are to OPACs).
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