Monday 17 October 2011

Apart from print and electronic information, librarians should also be aware of other data such as experimental and computational. This formed the basis of Yasien Sayed's talk. He also stated that from his experience students are moving away from printed to electronic information. Jenny Walker carried this idea further by stating that only 3% of students use the library website to search for information. They prefer a single search box for everything. Richard Higgs made an interesting point. He said that we should structure content the way users want to access it, not according to organisational silos. Colin Darch pointed out that in future libraries will have to deliver content to mobile devices. Real food for thought.