IUG 2008 – Day Two

Encore Encore is a front end to the catalog for keyword searching only. III describes it as a ‘discovery’ tool. It’s for patrons who don’t know what they are looking for and want to do a ‘google’ type search in the catalog. Once results are found the patron can then narrow down the results my using what [...]

IUG 2008 – Day One

Opening Session There are 1600 attendees at this year’s IUG conference. Our guest speaker – Larry Irving (coined the term Digital Divide) was very entertaining and informative.  The main point was the Digital Divide has changed.  The new digital divide is who has broadband access. By 2010 1 in 10 people in the world will be on [...]