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Sara Thompson

Nobody cares about the library: How digital technology makes the library invisible (and... - 1 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 23 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Yet, while it is certainly true that digital technology has made libraries and librarians invisible to scholars in some ways, it is also true, that in some areas, digital technology has made librarians increasingly visible, increasingly important.
  • The invisible library
  • Let me offer three instances where the library should strive for invisibility, three examples of “good” invisibility:
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  • Search:
  • APIs and 3rd party mashups:
  • Social media:
  • The visible library
  • Focus on special collections
  • Start supporting data-driven research
  • Start supporting new modes of scholarly communication—financially, technically, and institutionally.
  • Here I’d suggest tools and training for database creation, social network analysis, and simple text mining.
  • Sara Thompson on 23 Feb 12
     
    Skip the first bit about the Chuck clip - not important and too long. Scroll forward to the part starting with "The Invisible Library" -- excellent food for thought about the roles we play. 
Sara Thompson

How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box - 2 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 08 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 08 Feb 12
     
    Article from ACRL, due out March 2012 This study examines how users search a large public university library using a prominent, single search box on the library website. The article examines two semesters of real-world data, totaling nearly 1.4 million transactions...
Mark Lindner

» Differences in Discovery Tools An Anthropology of Algorithms - 0 views

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shared by Mark Lindner on 22 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Mark Lindner on 22 Jun 12
     
    One of the main conclusions of this research is that students are outsourcing much of the evaluation process to the search tools themselves, and because of this the search algorithms that drive these tools are functioning to determine what resources students use.  Differences in resource use attributable to differences in the design of the discovery tools' search algorithms could be directly observed in the data collected from students.
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