INLS 180 Day 5 Notes
Sept. 28, 2005
Project commitments due
Points
The request affects the answer
Choose search engine or librarian depends on lots of factors, including perceptions about libraries, machines, etc.
We missed opportunities to discuss ASK and got distracted by google searches
Sometimes people need info but do not know they do
Make systems user centered
Machines cannot replace people; machines are different than people
The same question can yield different answers.
Assessing needs is the key to providing answers
Questions
Motion searching?
How to get librarians on the search engines? [online reference, VRD)
Is narrowing always the best strategy? [no]
How do we stimulate and improve people’s ability to express their info needs?
Will better structure in the corpus (e.g., a DL) lead to better search results than heaps?
What will librarians do 10 years from now?
Tournament of ideas for aboutness ala Belkin? [??]
Can we improve ref lib performance (a bit more than half right) by collaborative reference?
Belkin’s research today? (Diane Kelly!)
Should people who take trouble to come to library get preference over calls/emails?
Harter, S. P. (1992). Psychological relevance and information science. (JASIST online)
Schamber, L., Eisenberg, M. B., & Nilan, M. S. (1990). A re-examination of relevance: Toward a dynamic, situational definition. (SILS reserve)
Amento, B., Terveen, L., & Hill, W. (2000). Does ‘authority’ mean quality? Predicting expert quality ratings of web documents. Proceedings of ACM SIGIR (Athens, July 24-28). 296-303. ( ACM Digital Library).
5. One-minute paper concept
What was the big point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?