Encore is an overlay to Millennium which allows students to search the catalogue then refine searches and search outside the catalogue. EBSCOhost permits the search and display of journal articles. Both are attempting to use interfaces similar to Google interfaces.
Jenny Levine's talk about injecting librarians back into searching and using gaming for teaching how to use resources and for teaching social interaction is very interesting though rather long.
The Web 2.0 video was interesting in that nowhere did it mention ACCURACY or relability or currency. It was about people supplying information to each other but nowhere it it question if what they supplied is the truth. Nor it aim for conciseness nor ease of finding what is required.
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