Friday, November 14, 2003

ResourceShelf I've been thinking about the many different points of view and contributors to the world of online instructional resources. One of the most important is the contribution of librarians. As my colleague Vicky York said at the EduResources Online WCET Conference "applying metadata is just cataloguing"--something that librarians have been doing for decades. Among the 53 weblog feeds that I'm tracking, the ResourceShelf is one of the most valuable for finding library resources. ResourceShelf is compiled and edited by Gary Price with "resources and news for information professionals." Although I'm not an information professional, I do find the information that comes across on ResourceShelf to be exceedingly valuable, often leading to links and resources that I would not have located on my own. E.g., this report from Wed. Nov. 12, 2003 in ResourceShelf about "User Misconceptions about Information Retrieval Systems" should be of interest to everyone who works with instructional repositories and referatories (http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu/go/intranet/papers/usermis.pdf). 11:47:26 AM    COMMENT []