Professional Reading Shelf
Website Usability
Source: Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content
“Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.”
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Libraries–Cell Phones
Source: Inside Higher Ed
The Silencer
“The decline of Western civilization proceeds apace. One shudders to imagine life in decades hence. A case in point: People now use cell phones in research libraries. Wandering the stacks, they babble away in a blithe and full-throated manner -? conversing, not with their imaginary friends (as did the occasional library-haunting weirdo of yesteryear) but rather with someone who is evidently named ‘Dude,’ and who might, for all one knows, be roaming elsewhere in the building: an audible menace to all serious thought and scholarly endeavor. This situation is intolerable. It must not continue. I have given this matter long consideration, and can offer a simple and elegant solution: These people ought to be shot.”

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