Archive for March, 2009

CIL Notes: Designing the Digital Experience

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Fine tuning should never be done by staff. Fine-tuning should be done by customers. – David Lee King David Lee King provided a strong overview of design theory and ways we can turn our digital presences from a static list of information into something that creates more of an experience for the user. The logic’s [...]

CIL Notes: Next-Gen Digital Reference Tools

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Reference 2.0 is mobile, digital, and social. We need to maximize the combination of these. –Joe Murphy Breakneck tour of the state of digital reference. I’m a little overwhelmed by Madeline Kriescher (implementation strategies), Joe Murphy (futurecasting), and Jan Johansson’s (data and visualization) state of the industry. The whole thing leaves me with a lot [...]

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