Mastery and user interface
Jakob Nielsen on different user interface experiences. He classifies the
experiences as involving mastery, mystery, or misery!
> The original
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National access to EEBO
JISC has secured long-term access to Early English Books Online for the UK
community. They are looking at an interesting
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Microsoft and internationalization
Operating in an international environment raises many issues. Of course, this is
a big factor for OCLC. There is an
Top screen scientist
The BBC held a Top Screen Scientist Vote
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/scientists/] and the results are in.
Cataloging mission statement
I have just come across the MIT Libraries’ Cataloging Mission Statement.
> The cataloging units of the MIT Libraries develop
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Wikipedia and reputation
Ross Mayfield summarises current discussions about the ‘trustworthiness’ of
Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page].
> Which brings
Learning and libraries
The recent report released by DLF, Digital Library Content and Course Management
Systems: Issues of Interoperation, makes it three: three
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Collection level description
Libraries have historically been interested in trees: their descriptive
practices have focused on works and their manifestations. Libraries are becoming
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Ontologies
JISC announces the publication of Latest TechWatch report: role of ontologies
in
teaching and learning
[https://www.jisc.ac.uk/
Universities are more like country clubs than health clubs
From the column of Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics, in
Management Today:
> There was even
Olympic icons
Like many others, I have been intermittently watching the Olympics. The Munich
Olympics were the first I really registered. I
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UKOLN focus and POIs
A very nice roundup of news and progress reports in the inaugural issue of
UKOLN
focus [https://www.ukoln.ac.
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