Tagging WAS: [Web4lib] Re: Future of libraries

[HAZEL Margaret E]

I think there are significant differences, too, in how the people use
public libraries, vs how students use academic libraries. 

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Subject: Tagging WAS: [Web4lib] Re: Future of libraries

I would argue, too, that the catalog is not the best place to implement
'social' features.  For any academic library, it holds only a small
fraction of what users are looking for.
 
It would be significantly better, in my opinion, to offer a system that
allows people to save/organize/share records from all of the library's
databases, not just the one that searches items physically in the
library.
 
--Dave
 
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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu