Wednesday, September 24, 2008

After the fall

There was an interesting opinion piece on redesigning OPACs in the January/February 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine, The Online Library Catalog: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained?.

1 comment:

Derek Reece said...

Good article. I liked the history of OPACs. The domain novice vs. domain experts is useful to consider. This was a good quote in the context of why users start at Google, "As such, searching the web specifically, and searching for information generally, conforms to the principle of least effort, "The design of any ... information system should be the system's ease of use ... If an organization desires to have a high quality of information used, it must make ease of use of primary importance" (Rosenberg, 1966, 19)".