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The User Experience: Resist that Redesign

Aaron Schmidt’s new column at Library Journal offers a twist on convening the “Web Site Redesign Committee” I chaired for 3 years at SJCPL:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/ljinprintcurrentissue/889081-403/resist_that_redesign__the.html.csp

Website redesign projects take a long time, often more than a year. During that time, a lack of visible progress can lower staff morale and leave users with a stagnant, [...]

You 2.0

Don’t miss Brian Kenney’s new editorial at School Library Journal:

Back when many of us signed up for this librarian gig, we were told that “keeping up” was a vital part of the job. That meant reading publications like SLJ, knowing what was being published in your field, tracking database content, while keeping abreast of [...]

Article: Young people don’t like us. Who can blame them?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1945553,00.html

These kids have been socially conditioned in a universe that runs parallel to the one inhabited by most folks in the media business. They’ve been playing computer games of mind-blowing complexity forever. They’re resourceful, knowledgeable and natural users of computer and communications technology. They’re Digital Natives – accustomed to creating content of their own [...]

Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial Generation Values

Thought-provoking and insightful article at Educause.

http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0640.asp

Policy Disconnects Drawing a clear line between technology and policy can be difficult. For example, how many of the characteristics of current libraries (identified by the list below) are driven purely by technology or by policy? These traits include:

Mainly electronic text-based collections with multimedia content noticeably [...]

Articles of Note

Here’s a clearinghouse entry of a couple of articles you may want to add to your reading pile:

Heard people banter about AJAX and how a lot of Web 2.0 apps are using it? A great post by Jesse James Garrett is here: http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

And what of Folksonomies and Metadata? Checkout “Metadata for the Masses” [...]

You know it’s a good article making the rounds when….

Dr. O’Connor at UNT sends it to the doc students.

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/issue/feature_library.asp

Marcia Bates on Information Science

We were assigned a wonderful article for SLIS 6000 by Marcia Bates called “Mining the Substrate of Information Science,” in which she discusses the underlying functions of the discipline. here are my thoughts, as posted to our class board:

?Currently,? Bates writes, ?the wheel is being reinvented everyday on the information superhighway? because of digital [...]

Develop an Organizational Content Strategy Now

Steven points to this article about blogs in corporations and it’s a good one:

http://www.marketingprofs.com/4/wreden5.asp

He urges us to apply it to library blog environments. I agree. Note:

“10. Develop an organizational content strategy now

Email, blogs, wikis, Web, voice mail, faxes, newsletters, advertising, PR. No wonder it is so hard for organizations to speak [...]

Taming the Public Computer in Miami

I grabbed this from LISNews (I think) days ago and forgot to post it:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/8289061.htm?1c

I work the reference desk and I know what it’s like when all of your terminals are full. I’ve seen arguments, scary situations and downright nastiness over access to the Internet. I’m all about access but as the article states [...]

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