- The increase in search tools means the time it takes for a thorough search is taking longer. A corrollary is you have to know when to end your search because there is just so much out there.
- Federated searching is improving with tabs, visual searches, and tag clouds, but there are big challengers in the academic search engines, such as Google Scholar, which need to be considered.
- E-book searches (Google Scholar, Amazon, etc.) are getting good and are worth using for research.
- Gary Price will do online or teleconference brown bag presentations!
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Computers in Libraries 07, Wednesday review
When I get back to work on Friday, I'll try to get the rest of my notes up for the conference, but I wanted to get out today's review while it is still fresh. Today's opening session was ok for its topic, but the presentation of it was not great. The speaker seemed to fall victim to the tyranny of PowerPoint. It was about an LOC project with UNESCO and many other national libraries to digitize culturally relevant materials from around the world. So that was the worst presentation of the day. I went to the A sessions on searching and they were all great; good topics, good tips and strategies, and good presentations. Some of what I learned was:
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Makes sense to me. Of course, with the ever-increasing number of search engines, we can get better results with more time, BUT ... the same benefit means more, MUCH more, garbaged to sort through. So establishing a kind of professional/personal "cut-off" point is essential, as you say.
Looking forward to having you back.
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