Archive for November 21st, 2005
Tension Between Personalization And Privacy
Most academic libraries would probably want to offer the sort of personalization features to their user communities that those users have come to expect with web retailers such as Amazon and Netflix. Consider “pushing” to a user news about some recent articles that are on the same topic as ones he or she retreived within [...]
Posted: 21 November, 2005 in Information Ethics, Worth Reading.
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Impending Demise Of The Local OPAC
That’s the title of a provocative presentation made by Gregg Silvis, of the University of Delaware Library systems office, at the annual PALINET meeting. I made a reference to this program in an earlier post, and I finally attended last Monday. Silvis began with a retrospective of OPAC development, and reminded everyone of how much [...]
Posted: 21 November, 2005 in Conference Blogging, Technology Issues.
Comments: 6