[Web4lib] Friendly language

[Cindy Harper]

Wouldn't "jargon" words be OK if we had tooltips/hover links that defined
them (and some indication that hovering your cursor would bring up a
tooltip)?  Sometimes I think it's useful for users to understand that there
are terms librarians use to denote categories (Reserve readings) that don't
exist in the outside world.  And "Books" just isn't specific enough
sometimes.

Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
Colgate University Libraries
charper at colgate.edu
315-228-7363



On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>wrote:

> On 01/28/2010 09:48 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess wrote:
>
> > ...I know a number of libraries have looked into de-jargonizing (how's
> > that for a word) their websites
>
> Here's a good starting point: <http://www.jkup.net/terms.html>.
>
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> Thomas Dowling
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
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