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
Notes from the LITA Forum 2009
Reporting from Salt Lake City, UT.
The first day of the conference was filled with presentations and conversations about many technology related issues. The ones that I attended focused on mobile technologies mostly.
In the opening plenary, Joan Lippincott overviewed a variety of ways in which libraries can deliver resources and services to users [...]
Tom, October 3rd 2009
