It was more than a year ago that Lorcan Dempsey pointed out this bit from The Chronicle:
Librarians should not assume that college students welcome their help in doing research online. The typical freshman assumes that she is already an expert user of the Internet, and her daily experience leads her to believe that she can get what she wants online without having to undergo a training program. Indeed, if she were to use her library’s Web site, with its dozens of user interfaces, search protocols, and limitations, she might with some justification conclude that it is the library, not her, that needs help understanding the nature of electronic information retrieval.
Posted April 2, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: google, information, information behavior, information search and retrieval, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library systems, online behavior, peter binkley, search behavior, search engines, search practice, steven cohen, web searching. 2 Comments.
These pictures are mostly foolish, but here’s a small point: none of us had ever seen a cop pull over a cab — certainly not a cab with passengers — before this, so we were all rather curious about why. In front of us stood a question, an example of the many questions we all encounter every day, and it’s the kind of question that few of us would ever suggest going to the library to answer.
Posted March 25, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Photoblog, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: cambridge, cambridge ma, future libraries, future library, information, information behavior, information seeking, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, massachusetts, police, question, questions, reference, reference information, sign, silly. Be the first one.
Via Librarian Way I found the LiS Radio webcast of a conversation between Sandra Erdelez and Karen Fischer, two of three editors of Theories of Information Behavior from ASIS&T and Information Today.
Unfortunately, the interview focuses on how the book came to be more than the content, but the description reads:
overviews of more than 70 conceptual [...]
Posted November 28, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: information, information behavior, librarian, libraries, library, lis, lisradio, manage, radio, seek, share, use. Be the first one.
I’ve been talking about it a lot lately, most recently in a comment at LibDev.
In the old world, information companies could create value by limiting access to their content. Most of us have so internalized this scarcity = value theory that we do little more than grumble about the New York Times’ authwall or similar [...]
Posted July 15, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: accessibility, accessible resources, authoritative, electric forest, google, google economy, information, jenny levine, new york times, oclc, scarcity, search engines, the shifted librarian, value, value equation, value theory. 5 Comments.
I love libraries, and I love books, but there the needs of our students and limitations of our budgets have no room for misplaced romantic attachments. That’s why I’ve found myself paraphrasing something from Ibiblio’s Paul Jones (via Teleread):
That smell of an old book, that smell of old libraries? That’s the smell of the books [...]
Posted June 12, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: book, books, budgets, education, ibiblio, information, libraries, library, paul jones, romantic attachments, rot, rotting, smell. One Comment.
Roger over at Electric Forest is making some arguments about the value of open access to information. Hopefully he’ll forgive me for my edit of his comment (though readers check the original to make sure I preserved the original meaning):
…keep the [information] under heavy protection and you will find that people ignore this sheltered content [...]
Posted June 7, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: accessibility, accessible resources, google, google economy, information, integration, kudos, leading the way, libraries, library, open access, search, trustworthy, wikipedia. 3 Comments.
