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Technology: "Don't Make Me Think"--A Plea for Simplicity and Transparency
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Bell, Colleen – Public Services Quarterly, 2006
What would it take for libraries to provide their patrons with the same kind of success in finding information using their resources as they achieve with Google, and as quickly? This author asserts that the answer is not that complicated: be more like Google, and then move beyond Google. With the technology available right now, this is not an…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Academic Libraries, Internet, Library Services