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Saturday, February 7, 2004 |
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Burn the catalog. An intriguing commentary on the frustrations of using the online catalog, and of teaching others to use it. Honey, I feel your pain. This is not just about availability, but about the near-impossibility of teaching undergraduates the kinds of search heuristics that will reliably produce useful material on most research subjects. ... I used to be a punk and think that was about Luddism and sloth, but I'm realizing that the fault lies less in ourselves and more in our tools... [baa baa blog]
I can relate to the frustrations espressed here -- with my students and with my own research. I think this is a great suggestion:I'm to the point where I think we'd be better off to just utterly erase our existing academic catalogs and forget about backwards-compatibility, lock all the vendors and librarians and scholars together in a room, and make them hammer out electronic research tools that are Amazon-plus, Amazon without the intent to sell books but with the intent of guiding users of all kinds to the books and articles and materials that they ought to find, a catalog that is a partner rather than an obstacle in the making and tracking of knowledge.
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