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| | Is there such a thing as a lib tech guru?Published on 2008-04-22 I’m hesitant about how fashionable the now popular title “Evangelist” really is. In my mind, harshly put, an evangelist is a prejudiced, narrow minded, message driven, company edged fan boy. Do I think of Matthew, Mark. Luke and John? In a way, yes. But, of course, I am trying to make a point. Guru, for me is maybe more of an appropriate "title" of somebody who has the relative knowledge to be an authority of foresight in their area. Wikipedia: “In a further Western metaphorical extension, guru is used to refer to a person who has authority because of his or her perceived secular knowledge or skills.” I do not think Marshall Breeding would present himself as a library technology guru but in my mind he is among the strongest contestants. At the 2008 Computer in Libraries Conference he summarized the necessary development of the libraries “public interfaces” (his expression): - Decoupling of the front end interface from the backend - A single point of entry of services offered by the library - Print and electronic resources - Metadata and fulltext - Local and remote (metadata) - Relevancy ranked results (users expect the “right” stuff first) - Facets, clusters, for narrowing the search - Query enhancement (“Did you mean?”) - Suggested related results (similar titles) - Locally created content - User-contributed content - Navigation “bread crumbs” - Single sign-on and personalization options We will come back on the “Locally created content “ in a blog close to you. Read more at http://www.librarytechnology.org/
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