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Ann Wolpert, MIT Libraries Surveyed users, got amazing 46% return rate, 1500 comments Full text article searches: library gateway, google scholar, Barton online catalog (which does not have full text). Bottom places: other search engines print indexes. Book searches: Barton online catalog, Amazon (!), Google. Bottom places: e-book gateways or databases. Search for facts: Google, Wikipedia, printed handbooks (dictionaries, encyclopedias). Bottom: individual databases, library staff. Course management systems are an important part of access - needs to integrate better with library services. Jean-Claude Guédon Wikipedia: distance between people and text is decreasing. Google search: if you find a good result, talk to the person, don't just read the document. Libraries have an opportunity to extract and cluster the "review of the literature" in PhD theses, to identify communities and pathways through knowledge Extract uncommon words (what Amazon calls Statistically Improbable Phrases) from books and build a network of those. Create HG Wells "the world brain". (review of reading: http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/138/guedon.html ) Ed Tenner, Princeton Panelist Ed Tenner: complaining about Wikipedia entry and Google searches on "World history"; on the other hand Brittanica doesn't even acknowledge the existence of the field. I asked him at the question session whether he had fixed the Wikipedia entry & he said he'd do that (and write up the results). Tenner: Suggests that academic sites learn the tradecraft of SEO, so that the "best" result gets the top results. Learn the game, play it. Reading 2.0, Tim O'Reilly Three or four talks in one. Summit next week: Reading 2.0, future of reading, what does digital content do to reading. What job does a book do?
Books as entertainment value
Evolution
What job does a library do?
Why the Google Library Project matters The Orphaned Works Problem
Does search drive discovery? Analysis based on Safari. Panel Keynote: Mary Sue Coleman essentially same as speech given to publishers group http://www.umich.edu/~pog/speeches/060206google.html Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A dialogue about the impacts of mass digitization http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/symposium conference blog: http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/sltsymposium/ |
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