For the past year I’ve been working on a project using Archive.org to categorize a sub-set of academic library home pages according to their browse and search structures. Next week I’ll present this data at ALA during the Monday 6/26 poster session at 1pm. But for now, here’s a quick overview of some of the [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Authority lies in Social Proof
12-Jun-07It’s been one of those months where several ideas seem to congeal all at once. Last year I conducted usability interviews with students where I asked them if they were worried about the authority of the documents they were finding. 100% of that sample said they were not. That made little sense to me until [...]
On Google and Privacy and Library Search
10-Jun-07A quick comment on the latest privacy analysis conducted by Privacy International. Their methodology is a very interesting read because it appears to be directly counter to what Google is doing with search and data aggregation. Two points in particular: Data collection and processing What type of information does the site collect, with and without [...]
Libraries offering Video on Demand
07-Jun-07There’s an interesting, but brief, writeup on the new Overdrive and Recorded Books services in this month’s print edition of Library Journal. Recorded Books, a supplier of downloadable material to libraries, plans to announce an agreement with major studios at the annual conference of the American Library Assn. June 21-27 in Washington, according to Recorded [...]