Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques
I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.
EBSCO has created the Discovery Pulse Blog to promote usage of the firm's data discovery tools. Discovery tools conduct a metasearch of multiple types of data resources held by an institution, providing a uniform query and report interface. Very popular with students, but currently the results are not as precise as using the search options of most stand-alone products.
-DDLabels: data discovery, EBSCO
posted by David Dial | 5:47 AM
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Meredith Farkas discusses the value of QR codes to help library users discover electronic resources.
The problem with such device-centered technology is that a code that links to a database is, to the naked eye, indistinguishable from a code that leads to a security threat. Farkas calls QR codes a "stop gap solution" (para. 6), and I would be hesitant to spend much time deploying this technology.
-DDLabels: data discovery, QR Codes
posted by David Dial | 11:20 PM
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