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When is a wiki not a wiki?
Or does using a specific type of software necessarily define the product? I was as excited as everyone else when I heard that the WorldCat wiki was live in Open WorldCat and that people could start...
View ArticleCIL06 Day 3: The Future of Catalogs
This session was PACKED! I came in with Dave King and we both had to sit on the floor. There aren’t too many folks I’d sit on the floor for, but Roy Tennant and Andrew Pace are definitely two of them....
View ArticleWhy Google (or Ask or Yahoo!) is good for reference work
Google/Ask/Yahoo! is rarely the first place I will look for information when helping a student. If it’s a really current topic, I’ll try Academic Search Premiere and LexisNexis. If it’s something more...
View ArticleIL 2006 Day 1: Federated Search: State of the Art
Jeff Wisnewski and Frank Cervone I haven’t really looked much at federated search tools since my post on using MetaLib well over a year ago. So I was very interested to hear Jeff and Frank talk about...
View ArticleDo they care what they’re looking at?
About a week before I left for my vacation, Paul Pival, Ken Varnum and David Rothman had an interesting distributed discussion about how students are perceiving the research literature and are...
View ArticleLISZEN is the path to library blog search nirvana.
This is what we have needed in the biblioblogosphere for a long time. Have you ever been looking for a blog post you read a while back, but you don’t remember who wrote it or exactly when? All you...
View ArticleWhatever you do don’t use Google!
After we teach our students how to distinguish between authoritative and unauthoritative resources, we need to actually show them how to find such authoritative resources. While our databases are...
View ArticleLibWorm: Searching, syndicating and aggregating the bibliblogosphere
A few months ago, David Rothman asked me if there was any tool for searching the biblioblogosphere. At the time, there really wasn’t much. I told him about LISFeeds, but explained that its search...
View ArticleLove for sale
Seriously, I just don’t get it. So, Google used to have a blog just for librarians called Librarian Central. I remember hearing about it from lots of folks way back when, but I didn’t read it because I...
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What’s the deal, JSTOR?
I’ve written some posts in the past about vendors that have done some pretty slimy things in the name of making a profit. At least that makes sense to me. That’s their model — they’re profit-driven....
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