Satisfactorally well written, but I still had to go back and re-read several parts in order to get the right idea. Is it just me misremembering again, or was there a big deal made out of T3 internet connections a while back--like was it used as a marketing campaign on the scale of the 10-10-220 commercials but with the idea of "bigger is better" like those insane razors?
Dismantling Integrated Library Systems
Every library I have worked in has used an ILS--but no library has been satisfied with theirs. I have found them clunky, plodding, and ugly--sort of like Shetland Ponies.
I'm glad to see that there is some recognition of the dissatisfaction with ILS's and that they may go the way of the OPAC in terms of improvments over time.
Inside the Google Machine
The video was a nice presentation and all, but like most companies' chest-thumping power points, it was overwhelmingly shallow. It didn't really explore how Google works (with the algorithyms and spiders
and all), which would have been more to the point really, considering what we're studying and all.
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