Here’s a bit on how Google designs its search page, based on user responses, and where it’s going:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9954972-7.html
“Indeed, in the longer run, she envisions universal search growing far more sophisticated, with a page filled with “images, videos, and graphs–not a list of 10 URLs but as a holistic answer to your query.”
Search also will [...]
From Live Search Blog
This also means that we are winding down our digitization initiatives, including our library scanning and our in-copyright book programs. We recognize that this decision comes as disappointing news to our partners, the publishing and academic communities, and Live Search users.
There are two things the Internet excels at: helping us connect with people, and helping us avoid people. Twitter fits right into the crawlspace. Here’s a guide to social networking:
Dying videos are depressing, but these DVDS are new and exciting. Actually, there is a whole lot of dying going on in most of these films. But anyway, for your viewing pleasure this long weekend, to catch up on these Oscar nominees, or just because you can’t get enough of Tommy Lee Jones or Casey [...]
Ever wonder exactly how many videos are taken down from YouTube because of copyright violations or other reasons? So did the folks at the MIT Free Culture student group. They created YouTomb to document all YouTube videos that have been taken down. You cannot watch the videos on the site. But [...]
It’s been a slow week on the SLog, and thankfully no meetings, so I offer this to spice up our lives:
This may be as appealing as watching paint dry, not as calming watching a river or the world roll by, but it is a particularly random way of looking at the expanding bibliographic universe:
As [...]
For those looking for more on the WorldCat Local “next gen lite” externally hosted interface, DEDCC’s Resources page will lead you to catalogs, Powerpoint presentations, and more info:. http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/libraries_dedcc/resources/
In November a speaker from the University of Washington spoke to Five Colleges staff about their early implementation. UW and another site, Ohio State University, [...]
DEDCC has put up a resources page with links to a number of “next gen” library interfaces. You’ll find a link on DEDCC’s “Resources” http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/libraries_dedcc/resources/ , along with a link to the Nov. 2007 “Next Gen” program (lots of info and articles).
To see how the AquaBrowser interface works in an academic library environment, visit [...]
I was intrigued by the “undergraduate prize for book collecting” in David’s post, and so I found a couple of links relating to this.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/alumnifriends/brooker/information.html
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/alumnifriends/brooker/information.html
A timely article since we will be thinking about services, collections, and learning environments tomorrow in our strategic planning meeting. From the Chicago Tribune:
At the University of Chicago, where the student hangout is the library and a prize is awarded annually for undergraduate book collecting, officials announced Monday plans to build another tribute to the [...]
