Change: knowledge, to build on knowledge. It is observed generally that being at the mercy of vendors, especially big ones who hamper your access to the product (which is also your library information, paradoxically) means that you cannot respond intelligently as librarians to your patrons locally...   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 637)

Change:  to connect in different ways over catalog items, bringing them to life.Josh mentions that you do need enthusiasts who are encouraged to dabble in the web - to have knowledge, to share knowledge, to build on knowledge.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 597)

Change: Kids' page on the JoCo site. That you go to the library website to do the things that you would do at the library, not to read about the library or other semi-unrelated things. We compare the OK State AquaBrowser overlay with the Drupal platform of the AADL catalog.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 518)

Change: Live "blogging" on the wiki by edh. Josh has an epic hatred of library catalogs because they are severely non-user-friendly. Most of the JoCo users go straight to the catalog which is not designed as our actual "website" is. I make the confession that   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 430)

Change: Serendipitous experiences mentioned - being able to find more than what you were looking for, and other things that relate are important to patrons so that you preserve the experience of discovery? Josh shows us this article. Then we do a try with   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 380)

Change:  pitted four catalogs against each other in a "shoot-out" so that they could decide which catalog was best. Ended up really testing three - one   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 277)

Change: Amazon?Jim points out that it doesn't matter how great we think it is, it's all about the user experience and how they search, what they want to find.Talk ensues about Koha and moving on to open source. LibLime does offer hosted solutions and help with maintaining the catalog.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 190)

Change: this our employment security? Being necessary to help patrons work through broken technology called the OPAC?The point is made that there are no "dead ends" in Amazon as final as those in the OPACs.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 121)

Change: Our fearless leader is Josh Neff! Josh has an epic hatred of library catalogs because they are severely non-user-friendly. Most of the JoCo users go straight to the catalog which is not designed as our actual "website" is.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 40)

Change: Created by erindowney Mar 19 2008, 2:36 PM EDT for: no reason given