Thursday, October 8, 2009

Five trends in discoverability

Lorcan Dempsey posted on his blog about a U. MN study on discoverability.

The 5 trends are

1. Users are discovering relevant resources outside of traditional library systems.

2. Users expect discovery and delivery to coincide.

3. Expanding use of portable Intenet devices.

4. Recommendation increasingly push discovery.

5. Users rely increasingly on non-traditional information objects.


This is worth reading.

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