Professional Reading Shelf
Web Directories
Source: LII
The LII Wants Your Feedback
Karen Schneider and the Librarians’ Internet Index have just placed their Annual User Survey online. Please share your thoughts. It only takes a few, very few, minutes. If you’ve never visted and used this wonderful resource, it’s a MUST! Since we shared a few thoughts about the LII earlier this week in this post (2nd item), no need to repeat them today. Btw, not only is the LII a wonderful directory but also a great current awareness resource that we think is a must read, along with ResourceShelf and DocuTicker, of course.
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Personal Information Management
Source: E-LIS
Annotating the Web: An Exploratory Study of Web Users’ Needs for Personal Annotation Tools
This paper was writen by Xin Fu, Tom Ciszek, Gary Marchionini, and Paul Solomon, and was published in the Proceedings 68th Annual Meeting (2005) of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). From the abstract, “This exploratory study investigates the needs Web users have to make annotations for their personal use when they view Web pages. Three forms of annotations observed on printed documents – text selection and emphasis, association building, and document re-segmentation – are examined in the Web environment. The study shows that text selection and association building through notes or symbols remain the dominant forms of annotation on the Web, while structural annotation (re-segmentation) and layout annotation (change of font, color, etc.) are also prevalent. The study also investigates users’ preferences for the tools designed to facilitate Web annotation practices. Findings suggest that usability is of utmost importance when developing Web annotation tools, and that under the current technical conditions, users welcome lightweight annotation functions, which are built into standard Web browsers.”

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