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    1. Interface = Instruction Ellysa Stern Cahoy Penn State University Libraries CIC Libraries Conference March 19, 2007
    2. Finding Time
    3. I wish I had known that the solution for needing to teach our users how to search our catalog was to create a system that didn't need to be taught. Tennant, Roy. What I Wish I Had Known. Library Journal. November 15, 2005. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6282632.html
      • Google recognizes
      • that it is an application
      • and immediately provides
      • you with the user interface
      • while libraries are still stuck in the
      • mind set of web 'pages’ .
      • --Bill Moody on Web4Lib
    4.  
    5. Usability Expert : Ok, so this is the search form... Librarian(s): So... is this the simple search form or the advanced search? Usability Expert : This is the search form. Singer, Ross. Polishing the Turd: The Danger of Redesigning the OPAC. May 9, 2005. http://dilettantes.blogspot.com/2005/05/polishing-turd-dangers-of-redesigning.html
    6.  
    7. http://www.lib.umn.edu/undergrad/
    8. http://www.maryville.edu/library/Default.asp
    9. http://www.lib.byu.edu/
    10.  
    11. http://www.ksulib.org/ac/
    12. http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl
      • “ Librarians need to use their expertise to make the library's online presence approach the simplicity and power of the Internet.”
      • Wilder, Stanley. “Information Literacy Makes all the Wrong Assumptions.” The Chronicle Review , January 7, 2005. http://www.bright.net/~dlackey/WrongAssumptions.htm
    13. How Do We Get There? Involve students in interface planning Give a small, informed group the freedom to dream and develop
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    16. References
      • Dempsey, Lorcan. " The User interface that Isn't." May 2005. http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000667.html
      • Klein, Leo Robert. The Expert User Is Dead.  Library Journal. October 15, 2003. http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA323336
      • Lippincott, Joan. Net Generation Students and Libraries . Coalition for Networked Information, 2006. http://www.educause.edu/NetGenerationStudentsandLibraries/6067
      • Lippincott, Sarah & Martha Kyrillidow. How ARL University Communities Access Information: Highlights from LibQUAL+. Bimonthly Report 236, October 2004.
      • Miller, Todd. In Defense of Stupid Users . Library Journal . March 15, 2005.
      • http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA509607.html
      • OCLC. How Academic Librarians Can Influence Students’ Web-Based Information Choices . (OCLC White Paper on the Information Habits of Students.) June 2002. http://www.mnstate.edu/schwartz/informationhabits.pdf
      • Salaway, Gail, et al. The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology , 2006. http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ERS0607
      • Tennant, Roy. What I Wish I Had Known. Library Journal. November 15, 2005. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6282632.html
      • Wilder, Stanley. “Information Literacy Makes all the Wrong Assumptions.” The Chronicle Review , January 7, 2005. http://www.bright.net/~dlackey/WrongAssumptions.htm
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