Classic Note Entries

Libraries and Information Curation

Failure of the status quo

  • Information scarcity is no longer the issue. Attention scarcity is the problem.
  • The publisher's role in information curation and filtering has never been more important. However, the tools to achieve them are changing.
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit. William Pollard, Physicist

Pathways to related content

  • Related search terms
  • Links to related content within and across resources
  • Dynamically generated as new content is added
  • Goal: Increases serendipitous discovery, site stickiness, and usage metrics like number of page views and time on site


This from a publisher. What about us in the library?