Comments on: The Guardian’s “Libraries of the Future” Supplement http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/the-guardians-libraries-of-the-future-supplement/ Reflections on the Web and Web 2.0 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:11:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Library Views 圖書館觀點 » Libraries Unleashed http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/the-guardians-libraries-of-the-future-supplement/#comment-65172 Library Views 圖書館觀點 » Libraries Unleashed Mon, 05 May 2008 22:28:47 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=638#comment-65172 [...] Brian Kelly [...] [...] Brian Kelly [...]

]]> By: Bloggers around the world welcome Guardian supplement : Libraries of the Future http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/the-guardians-libraries-of-the-future-supplement/#comment-64976 Bloggers around the world welcome Guardian supplement : Libraries of the Future Thu, 01 May 2008 10:59:21 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=638#comment-64976 [...] literacy was a theme for many blogs – for SIS at the Uni of Pittsburgh, for Bloggable Librarian, Brian Kelly at UK Web Focus and for Dana McKay, who, in response to the supplement, called on education [...] [...] literacy was a theme for many blogs – for SIS at the Uni of Pittsburgh, for Bloggable Librarian, Brian Kelly at UK Web Focus and for Dana McKay, who, in response to the supplement, called on education [...]

]]> By: Roddy MacLeod http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/the-guardians-libraries-of-the-future-supplement/#comment-64776 Roddy MacLeod Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:03:11 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=638#comment-64776 Couldn't agree more with your view that complementing services aimed, perhaps, at niche areas are needed, and especially for researchers and professors. For example, there's a rapidly growing number of RSS feeds of various kinds, of potential use to academics, being produced - e.g. Calls for papers, conference announcements, new learning & teaching resource announcements, new items in Institutional Repositories, new theses & dissertations, and so on. But these tend to produce a torrent of items within which only a very small number will be of interest to any particular academic. Filtering tools, personalisation tools, and such like, would be useful. These, surely, would be more useful than the current response of the LIS community which seems to me to be to produce zillions of "what is RSS" explanations and tutorials, and such like (many of which seem to go quickly out of date). Roddy Couldn’t agree more with your view that complementing services aimed, perhaps, at niche areas are needed, and especially for researchers and professors. For example, there’s a rapidly growing number of RSS feeds of various kinds, of potential use to academics, being produced - e.g. Calls for papers, conference announcements, new learning & teaching resource announcements, new items in Institutional Repositories, new theses & dissertations, and so on. But these tend to produce a torrent of items within which only a very small number will be of interest to any particular academic. Filtering tools, personalisation tools, and such like, would be useful.

These, surely, would be more useful than the current response of the LIS community which seems to me to be to produce zillions of “what is RSS” explanations and tutorials, and such like (many of which seem to go quickly out of date).

Roddy

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