I’m a full time reference librarian at Austin Community College. For now, this blog is my place to share what I’ve learned at conferences and the Friday Link Round Up I do as a part of my Staff Development Team responsibilities.
You can read a brief bio on the Emerging Leaders wiki or see what I’m up to at my ACC staff page.
DEAR Ellie,
The Internet has transformed how we communicate with the public, but there are still many challenges in making information easy to find. Since you cover social software in Ellie <3 libraries, I thought you might be interested in a study that my nonprofit published this summer about how people find information online. The study covers three groups: non-profit organizations and cities; web designers and firms; and the general public.
The study was fascinating on a number of levels, and I invite you to read the executive summary or download a PDF of the findings at http://www.idea.org/find-information.html .
The survey results sparked ideas about tools we could provide that might make finding information online easier. This fall, we will start beta testing a cool new new navigational tool. I don’t have your email, so if you are interested, you can sign up for our beta here: http://www.spicynodes.org/ or to stay abreast of our (very) occasional new projects, you can get our newsletter here: http://www.idea.org/newsletter.html
Thanks,
Michael