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You’ve just experienced a common ailment called the blog lull, familiar to many as a symptom of life getting very busy for that blogger. In this case our lull was a result of the preparation for and multitude of questions subsequent to the annual Innovative Users Group conference. We had […]
Surely you all remember the P.D. Eastman book Are You My Mother? In it a baby bird wanders around asking all types of animals if they are his mother. Well that’s somewhat how I’ve felt over the past few years as I’ve tried to identify who the real customer is for the OPAC.
The […]
Hi there, I’m Stephanie and I’m part of the Encore Services department. I started at Innovative as an intern in Product Management, then came back to work in Customer Services in the Digital Resources group and I’ve been here just about 3 years now.
In my spare time, I do some web design and I try […]
February 12, 2008 :
Q&A: Facets, Tag Clouds, and Shoe Shopping
Here’s the first in a series of “Q&A” podcasts with Innovative staff. We’re calling this one Dinah Sanders on Three Challenges for New Discovery Tools.
Dinah is the Senor Product Manager for Encore and she hits on a few of its features like facets and tag clouds. There’s also a fun search example about shoe shopping…
Dinah […]
For all the discussion of radical change in librarianship, it’s not hard to find themes which go back generations. One inspiring thinker is Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, the great Indian librarian who wrote his Five Laws back in 1931:
Books are for use.
Every reader his book.
Every book its reader.
Save the time of the reader.
The library is a […]
Hi! I’m Dinah Sanders and I really truly am named after Alice’s cat in Alice In Wonderland. Maybe that set me down a bookish path from an early age…
Prior to getting my library degree, I worked at and even owned my own bookstore, but for all my fondness for the printed word, the Web is […]
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