A panel discussion on databases at the SLJ Summit in D.C. raised some important concerns about database vendors. I think it would behoove them to listen to these concerns if they want their consumer market(k12 librarians and k12 students) to keep using their products. In this arena, I’d say, Google has got it right. One [...]
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Partial mea culpa
March 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Web 2.0
A few days ago I wrote a post trying to get attention of database designers to a few things, namely making searching more convenient and fun for students so they would use the databases more frequently. One particular thing I mentioned was embeddable search widgets. After investigating and some legwork on my part, I discovered [...]
Are databases dead?
March 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Research, Search tools, Web 2.0
I’m going to be blunt in this post. Databases are dead. (Okay, maybe that is a bit dramatic.) And who would mourn their loss? What value do they add to our internet experience? Both Joyce Valenza and I (and I’m sure scores of other librarians) have probably written similar posts in the past asking database [...]
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