Reinventing the Library Catalog - Aaron Tay

I have enjoyed Aaron Tay’s writings for a couple years. I found this tongue-in-cheek observation very insightful about the future of the library catalog, Steve Jobs style…

“Well, today, we’re introducing three revolutionary products of this class. The first one is a next generation library catalogue search with faceted browsing and web 2.0 features. The second is a revolutionary searching device that searches articles from databases. And the third is a breakthrough mobile internet device. So, three things: a next generation library catalogue; a revolutionary searching device that searches articles; and a breakthrough mobile user interface.  These are not three separate devices, this is one device, and we are calling it icatalogue. Today, libraries are going to reinvent the catalogue!” … Read More

via Musings About Librarianship

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