Nina McHale (University of Colorado Denver) discussed the hype of federated search engines and discovery interface tools. These high levels of overblown expectation have led to consistent disappoint with the performance and lack of features of these systems, hence the title. [Unrealistic expectations, I might add.]
The lack of features is in comparison to the native [...]
Why Reference and Instruction Librarians Hate Federated Searching and NextGen Catalogs
Tom, October 5th 2009
Nanometers as Things
Last night a broadcast tv network station serving my area covered a story on the local evening news about luring to the area a high tech company that produces nanometers. ??? Aren’t nanometers a unit of measure? Did I miss something?
Tom, May 6th 2009
Sun & Oracle?
I know that I can’t be the only one out there who at once finds the news that Oracle is buying Sun both amazingly humorous and disconcerting. Not too long ago the leaders of both spared quite regularly (Scott McNealy and Larry Ellison); now nothing but a tech love fest. As many analysts [...]
Tom, April 20th 2009
LITA TTT Pulls Off a Winner
[Session at ALA Midwinter, Denver, CO, January 25, 2009]
In high contrast to last year’s event, the LITA Top Technology Trends meeting at ALA Midwinter this morning went extremely well. The content, of course, is always interesting, but this time the technology employed to deliver the experience came off without a hitch. The use [...]
Tom, January 25th 2009
