Internet Librarian Mentioned on Yahoo Blog
November 12th, 2005Man, this conference is getting more media play than any previous ITI event in recent memory. Take a look at what Chris Fillius of Yahoo! Search had to say. From the post:
“Elsewhere, librarians discussed creating online library catalogs that allow patrons to tag, comment, review, share, recommend, and otherwise create a virtual community around records in the catalog. Imagine browsing through a library catalog and seeing other people’s reviews or recommendations for similar items. Sounds like what happens on many Web sites now, places like Yahoo! Local, My Web 2.0, Flickr, Furl, Amazon.com, etc.”
“Of course I attended the search-related discussions at the conference, which included representatives from Yahoo! , Google, Ask, A9, Groxis and PubSub. My main take-away was that some librarians feel the major search companies are helping improve access to information, while other librarians are concerned about the monopolization and commercialization of information. This was particularly evident in the sessions and hallway conversations I heard about digitizing books, which we’ve been thinking hard about, as well.”
A PubSub representative at “search related discussions”? It must have been me, but I don’t remember taking part in any official search-related discussions. No worries. Anyway, I’m thrilled that Yahoo deemed the conference blog worthy. The 10th Anniversary next year is going to be the biggest ever. I can just sense it.