[WEB4LIB] link annotations

Tony Barry me at Tony-Barry.emu.id.au
Thu Jul 26 01:21:58 EDT 2001


At 9:59 AM -0700 25/7/01, Martin, Julie wrote:
>We're in the process of a redesign and there are strong feelings on 
>both sides of this issue. Some people feel the annotations are 
>unecessary, and that after you've used a resource once they just 
>clutter things up. Other's feel that librarians add value by 
>providing some descriptive information about the resource and what 
>it's unique features are.

Even better, use a system which lets the user community add their own 
reviews and comments on the resource and rate it's level of 
usefulness. They are the people it's for and in the best position to 
judge, not the librarians.

Tony
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