According to the recently released Pew Internet report on online activities:
On an average day, about 94 million American adults use the internet; 77% will use email, 63% will use a search engine.
Among all the online activities tracked, including chatting and IMing, reading blogs or news, banking, and buying, not one of them includes searching a [...]
Posted November 23, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: google, google vs. the opac, libraries, library, library catalog, opac, pew internet, pew internet and american life project, report, search engine, search engines. 10 Comments.
I’m here at the NELINET Bibliographic Services Conference at the College of the Holy Cross today.
The conference is titled “Google vs. the OPAC: the challenge is on!” and there’s quite a lineup of speakers.
My presentation is on “the social life of metadata.” My slides are online, and below is some background.
The Library Catalog…
The catalog is [...]
Posted November 18, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: bibliographic services, bibliographic services conference, google, google vs. the opac, libraries, library, library catalog, library catalogs, nelinet, nelinet bibliographic services conference, opac, opacs, social life of metadata, the social life of metadata, worcester, worcester ma. 3 Comments.
