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October | 2012 | Matt J Borg
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UX, discovery and academic libraries. Context and the discovery journey. It’s hard to talk about specific examples of searches that “don’t work” in Summon, isn’t it? Firstly you’ve got the problem that a search in one institution’s implementation won’t match another’s. Secondly, and more worryingly, the examples we talk about are generally ones that we come up with, rather than ones our students bring to […]. October 23, 2012. Summon and Information Literacy webinar. October 22, 2012. Bored of Borg Blog?
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Context and the discovery journey | Matt J Borg
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UX, discovery and academic libraries. Context and the discovery journey. It’s hard to talk about specific examples of searches that “don’t work” in Summon, isn’t it? For example, you could, if you wanted to, just search for Dementia in Summon, and for our implementation the first 5 results don’t look particularly useful. The first is from 1987. Alternatively, you could compare this to Google – first three results. Are paid for ads, then wikipedia, then useful stuff aimed at general public from NHS. It...
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Summon-ing the courage: JIBS user event | Matt J Borg
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UX, discovery and academic libraries. Summon-ing the courage: JIBS user event. I was fortunate enough to be asked to talk at the JIBS User group event and AGM held at SOAS in London on Monday 25 February. I was surprised when someone in the audience asked generally how many institutions had hidden or got rid of their OPAC and about 15 hands went up out of about 100 attendees. A surprising amount, and definitely a good start. Highlights from the day for me included Paul Stainthorp’s. March 1, 2013.
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Library website refresh. | Matt J Borg
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UX, discovery and academic libraries. We’re committed to getting a refreshed, slightly redesigned Library Gateway. Out there in time for returning students. Sometimes that feels like it is beginning of October, but then you remember that the Education students start in September, and we need to prepare teaching material. So it actually needs to be ready by August. gulp . There are a few reasons why we’re dissatisfied with the current Library Gateway (60 links! I thought. No one is really using IE6 an...
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March | 2013 | Matt J Borg
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UX, discovery and academic libraries. Summon-ing the courage: JIBS user event. I was fortunate enough to be asked to talk at the JIBS User group event and AGM held at SOAS in London on Monday 25 February. The whole day was fascinating, with many interesting presentations from institutions that had implemented a discovery system. I was worried that much of my content would have already been […]. March 1, 2013. Bored of Borg Blog? Go back to the main site. Summon-ing the courage: JIBS user event.
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Internet Explorer 6 and library web pages. | Matt J Borg
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UX, discovery and academic libraries. Internet Explorer 6 and library web pages. I mentioned recently that we needed to think about IE6 when designing and creating library web pages. There is an assertion that this is ridiculous, and we need to move away from catering to a browser that’s over ten years old. However, I think we in HE (and probably lots of other areas) need to pay careful consideration, and that our users have particular needs that have to be addressed. But also zero chance of us being abl...
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Shoshin | Matt J Borg
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UX, discovery and academic libraries. About 18 months ago, toward the end of 2010, we started to look at implementations of discovery systems. We had already decided to move from federated search to a discovery platform (best. decison. ever.) and were keen to see what others were doing. Eventually we decided on Serials Solutions’ Summon. A Zen master) in his 1970 book “Zen Mind, Beginners Mind”. In which he suggests:. Do NOT do that, AND instead do this OR it won’t work. My results, then the experience w...
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April | 2012 | Matt J Borg
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UX, discovery and academic libraries. Internet Explorer 6 and library web pages. I mentioned recently that we needed to think about IE6 when designing and creating library web pages. There is an assertion that this is ridiculous, and we need to move away from catering to a browser that’s over ten years old. However, I think we in HE (and probably lots of other areas) need to […]. April 13, 2012. April 11, 2012. Bored of Borg Blog? Go back to the main site. Summon-ing the courage: JIBS user event.
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May | 2012 | Matt J Borg
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UX, discovery and academic libraries. Mobile technologies in libraries : information sharing event. Today I gave a talk at the Mobile technologies in libraries : information sharing event on Creating a separate mobile library gateway with a framework called iUI – and why I wouldn’t do it again (which I attempted to acronymise as CASMLGWAFCiUIAWIWDIA , but I don’t think it caught on). As promised, the slides and the […]. May 8, 2012. Where are the beautifully designed interfaces? I was being […].
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Summon and Information Literacy webinar | Matt J Borg
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UX, discovery and academic libraries. Summon and Information Literacy webinar. So last week I spoke at a Serial Solution webinar on Summon and its impact on information literacy at Sheffield Hallam. The talk I gave was a mash up of a talk I gave with my colleague Angie at the IFLA satellite conference, a talk I gave at the M-Library conference. The talk I gave at the July 2012 Summon Information Literacy event. And a sprinkling of some other things I’ve been thinking about. The slides are also available.
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