[Web4lib] Local Book iPhone application

Sharon Foster fostersm1 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 21:06:29 EST 2010


There's an interesting graduate student project--how do {pick an age
group or other demographic} decide which web services to use for which
purposes?

Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS
Technology Librarian
http://firstgentrekkie.blogspot.com/
"Have you tried switching it off and on again?"




On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:50 PM, David Friggens <friggens at waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
> Indeed, which is why more people use Wikipedia than Britannica, and why
> more people use LibraryThing than WorldCat. Similarly there are
> situations where you would just do a Google search rather look something
> up on Wikipedia, and where you would check out Google Maps rather than
> going to LibraryThing Local. But there are times when
> quality/reliability are more important, and you go directly to Wikipedia
> rather than Google, or to LibraryThing Local rather than Google Maps.
> Horses for courses and all that...




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