Neuroscience
Guy Kawasaki’s blog, How to Change the World: A practical blog for impractical people, lists The Top Ten Stupid Ways to Hinder Market Adoption.
His comments are aimed at commercial web sites, but many are valid for libraries and our vendors as well. They’re mostly things that would annoy tech-savvy users / customers, but we in libraries don’t want to alienate our tech-savvy patrons, do we?
These include:
Also check out the lengthy comments from other readers of Guy’s post; there are even more good pet peeves!)
- A Good Laugh
I often quote from Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science. Here they are, in case you haven't committed them to memory: Books are for use.Every reader his [or her] book.Every book its reader.Save the time of the User.The library is a growing...
- Web 2.0 For My Friends Or, A Facebook Frenzy!
In thinking back over 2008, one of the best things about the year was the proliferation of friends, buddies, and acquaintances I met. For the most part, this meeting took place online, through various social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and...
- The Future Of Reference
A colleague (hi Terry!) asked me to speak on a panel in his class about the future of reference. I'm a poor prognosticator (tho' I like to say the word), but I have a few thoughts. Here's a bit of what I said in class: Even before I talk about...
- Evaluating Health Information
I’m going to post this on my other blog, Libraries For My Friends, but I thought some of you might like it too: MedlinePlus offers a great set of material on how to evaluate health information online. It includes links to … a flash tutorial called...
- Nature Neuro, Etc. Offers Rss Feeds
Did you know that the journal Nature (plus its myriad imprints) has rss feeds? You can get them for Nature itself, Nature Neuroscience, and Nature Neuroscience Reviews -- plus a whole bunch more. Check out the Nature page for info. on RSS feeds and the...
Neuroscience
Hindering Tech-savvy Users
Guy Kawasaki’s blog, How to Change the World: A practical blog for impractical people, lists The Top Ten Stupid Ways to Hinder Market Adoption.
His comments are aimed at commercial web sites, but many are valid for libraries and our vendors as well. They’re mostly things that would annoy tech-savvy users / customers, but we in libraries don’t want to alienate our tech-savvy patrons, do we?
These include:
- Long URLs (LexisNexis? Hello?)
- Windows that don’t generate URLs (I’m looking at you, SFX)
- Lack of feeds and email lists (RSS feeds for new books & other new library resources?)
- User names cannot contain the @ character (or, in the case of Scopus / Elsevier, THEY generate the user names – who can remember stephaniebrown18? Who wants to?)
- Supporting only Windows Internet Explorer (‘nuff said)
Also check out the lengthy comments from other readers of Guy’s post; there are even more good pet peeves!)
- A Good Laugh
I often quote from Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science. Here they are, in case you haven't committed them to memory: Books are for use.Every reader his [or her] book.Every book its reader.Save the time of the User.The library is a growing...
- Web 2.0 For My Friends Or, A Facebook Frenzy!
In thinking back over 2008, one of the best things about the year was the proliferation of friends, buddies, and acquaintances I met. For the most part, this meeting took place online, through various social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and...
- The Future Of Reference
A colleague (hi Terry!) asked me to speak on a panel in his class about the future of reference. I'm a poor prognosticator (tho' I like to say the word), but I have a few thoughts. Here's a bit of what I said in class: Even before I talk about...
- Evaluating Health Information
I’m going to post this on my other blog, Libraries For My Friends, but I thought some of you might like it too: MedlinePlus offers a great set of material on how to evaluate health information online. It includes links to … a flash tutorial called...
- Nature Neuro, Etc. Offers Rss Feeds
Did you know that the journal Nature (plus its myriad imprints) has rss feeds? You can get them for Nature itself, Nature Neuroscience, and Nature Neuroscience Reviews -- plus a whole bunch more. Check out the Nature page for info. on RSS feeds and the...