Take note of the “New Feature: Text this to your cellphone” line above.
Adam Brin of Tricollege Libraries explained that the “text this to me” feature he built to send location information about items in the library catalog as text messages to a user’s cell phone is being used as many as 60 times a [...]
Posted February 28, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: catalog, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, library catalogs, scriblio, sms, text this to me, txt. 5 Comments.
A bibliographic instruction quiz we used to use asked students how many of Dan Brown’s books could be found in our catalog. The idea was that attentive students would dutifully search by author for “brown, dan,” get redirected to “Brown, Dan 1964-,” and find three books. Indeed, the expected answer was “three.”
As it turns out, [...]
Posted October 12, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: catalog, cataloging, error, errors, findability, keyword search, libraries, library, opac, search, searching, usability. Be the first one.
