Liberate the Library! A while back I popped an email to Stephen from Library Stuff asking him what he thought about a few amazon-esque developments I could see having an amazing impact on a traditional library catalogue and online presence... stephen was kind enough to post it to library stuff (this was down at the time) and it got a bit of interest but picking up this:
Amazon is calling its program "Look Inside the Book II". It would let online browsers search by terms like "Caravaggio," "sans-culottes," or "Osama bin Laden," and then see a list of books mentioning the term along with the sentence that contains it. Browsers could then choose to see several pages around that citation. http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5049506.html?tag=fd_top [vis elearningpost]
has got me back onto it...
It's huuuuge! The potential of adding features such as:
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Reading / Searching the 'blurb'
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Seeing the book
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READING WHAT YOUR PEERS & TEACHERS THINK ABOUT IT!
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Searching the entire text!
To what are, let's face it, pretty useless catalogues for anything but finding if they have a particular book and if it's in (well, at every uni I've been at so far - and this is the fourth in Melb!)
Anyone out there seen any of these implemented in a library-kinda system? Wow! Could even start listmania!
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