Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Findability : Information Not Location

This is the last session in the Search Engines track on the last day of CIL, presented by Mike Creech and Ken Varnum of the University of Michigan Library.  This was an interesting, although not particularly useful session in which Mike & Ken described the process they went to to improve the University of Michigan library websites.  They had vastly different problems than I am used to having to deal with (33 websites, all under the University of Michigan Libraries moniker, that had hugely variant interfaces and designs, that needed standardization while still maintaining a certain level of autonomy).  They also briefly discussed the tagging system that they are implementing on these sites.

This is the final session I'm attending at CIL, after which I imagine, I'll lose my free Internet connection and may not be able to post for a few days.  I'll be back at work in Winnetka (assuming my nascent cold can be persuaded to go somewhere else) on Friday.

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