Comments on: WPopac Gets Googled http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11095/a-barn-in-new-england/ A bunch of stuff I would have emailed you about. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:08:29 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ken http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11095/a-barn-in-new-england/comment-page-1/#comment-41633 Ken Wed, 24 May 2006 19:20:44 +0000 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/?p=11095#comment-41633 Great work Mr. Bisson! I'll show your work to our faculty library! They use a manual system from the 60's. It's a pain trying to find something there if you don't know exactly the author or the name of the book! Cheers, Ken Great work Mr. Bisson! I’ll show your work to our faculty library! They use a manual system from the 60’s. It’s a pain trying to find something there if you don’t know exactly the author or the name of the book!

Cheers,

Ken

]]> By: John http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11095/a-barn-in-new-england/comment-page-1/#comment-39408 John Sat, 20 May 2006 08:05:50 +0000 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/?p=11095#comment-39408 great site! great site!

]]> By: Linkability Is Community « MaisonBisson.com http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11095/a-barn-in-new-england/comment-page-1/#comment-37451 Linkability Is Community « MaisonBisson.com Mon, 15 May 2006 15:03:12 +0000 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/?p=11095#comment-37451 [...] It’s hard to know how Fuzzyfruit found the WPopac catalog page for A Baby Sister for Frances (though it is ranked fifth in a Google search for the title), but what matters is that she did find it, and she was able to link to it by simply copying the URL from her browser’s location bar. [...] [...] It’s hard to know how Fuzzyfruit found the WPopac catalog page for A Baby Sister for Frances (though it is ranked fifth in a Google search for the title), but what matters is that she did find it, and she was able to link to it by simply copying the URL from her browser’s location bar. [...]

]]> By: Spamming Google with the OPAC at ebyblog http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11095/a-barn-in-new-england/comment-page-1/#comment-37103 Spamming Google with the OPAC at ebyblog Mon, 08 May 2006 14:59:36 +0000 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/?p=11095#comment-37103 [...] While I like the ideas behind WPOpac, I have to disagree with Casey’s post about exposing the information to Google. I actually have no problem with exposing, as you can do what you want, but I don’t think it’s very helpful as is and would hope if more libraries do it that Google takes action and moves the results to the bottom. The information on most OPAC’s pages are only useful to a few people and it would make more sense to have it only show up when they include the library name or something similar. It looks ok know and seems like it might be a good idea to have it wide open and high results but that’s only because very few are doing it. When I search for an author or book the last thing I want is 20 pages of results for different libraries that all tell me nothing. Casey does include a link to WorldCat but it presumes you know what “worldcat libraries” is. [...] [...] While I like the ideas behind WPOpac, I have to disagree with Casey’s post about exposing the information to Google. I actually have no problem with exposing, as you can do what you want, but I don’t think it’s very helpful as is and would hope if more libraries do it that Google takes action and moves the results to the bottom. The information on most OPAC’s pages are only useful to a few people and it would make more sense to have it only show up when they include the library name or something similar. It looks ok know and seems like it might be a good idea to have it wide open and high results but that’s only because very few are doing it. When I search for an author or book the last thing I want is 20 pages of results for different libraries that all tell me nothing. Casey does include a link to WorldCat but it presumes you know what “worldcat libraries” is. [...]

]]> By: Nick Baker http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11095/a-barn-in-new-england/comment-page-1/#comment-36882 Nick Baker Fri, 05 May 2006 15:37:50 +0000 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/?p=11095#comment-36882 I tuned out the discussion on web4lib after a while, but I had considered doing something similar for our catalog, so that when users search our site (which is powered by Google) they would get catalog hits as well as regular library web pages. Half the time they don't know what they're searching anyway. I tuned out the discussion on web4lib after a while, but I had considered doing something similar for our catalog, so that when users search our site (which is powered by Google) they would get catalog hits as well as regular library web pages. Half the time they don’t know what they’re searching anyway.

]]> By: links for 2006-05-05 at ebyblog http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11095/a-barn-in-new-england/comment-page-1/#comment-36841 links for 2006-05-05 at ebyblog Fri, 05 May 2006 06:23:14 +0000 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/?p=11095#comment-36841 [...] WPopac Gets Googled « MaisonBisson.com (tags: google libraries code4lib) [...] [...] WPopac Gets Googled « MaisonBisson.com (tags: google libraries code4lib) [...]

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