[WEB4LIB] RE: advice please

[William Frost]

Perhaps this might be modeled after Consumer Reports with a chart showing relative strength in various categories accompanied by a narrative.

William J. Frost, Webmaster
Harvey A. Andruss Library
Bloomsburg University
Bloomsburg, PA  17815

>>> "Brian Cockburn" <cockbuba at jmu.edu> - 3/23/01 8:49 AM >>>
This is a dire need.  I Think rather than a "forum" so much, a very good
website that rates the vendors and products on certain established and
accepted fairly objective criteria.  It could include "reviews" of new
products.  Comparison of like products and a list of products with a
numerical rating.

I have thought a lot about this issue and applaud your willingness to start
this.

I, like you have not seen anything that does this

Brian Cockburn
Digital Services Librarian
James Madison University
VMail:  540.568.6978  EMail:  cockbuba at jmu.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On
Behalf Of Liz Linton
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 7:11 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] advice please

My interest is in starting a forum/website for issues
pertaining to usability and library electronic subscription resources.

Over and over again I am shocked at the egregious violations of basic
usability that librarians and their patrons are asked to endure by the
various vendors.
Sloppy, shoddy and unacceptable interfaces are the rule
rather than the exception.

My question is this - As far as you know, is there
already such a resource in place? (If so, I haven't located it.)

If there is not already such a creature for librarians, what are some of
the features you'd like to see incorporated into such a site?

Thank you in advance for your time and thoughts.

Sincerely,

Liz Linton
Electronic Resources Librarian
Sweet Briar College

http://www.cochran.sbc.edu
http://gos.sbc.edu