NOTES
context Oz curriculum, cloud, game based learning,our environment is physical and virtual – Our job
to forget the past

Things have changed since we designed library systems. Don’t lose track of what is happening in
other areas

Google creates the illusion of accessibility. How does search impact the way students think

Our students conceptualizer the info environment differently. The way they search impacts the way
we organize info.

linked data ontologies are focused on helping machines find and make use of information checkout
is right: Interrogation of data from different data pools requires new thinking, and user focus

Search experience influences how students see information structureImportance of RDA and metadata mean we cannot take old thinking into new information environments

Our OPAC How can we change our technology interface discovery interface. We need natural predictive responsive search capacity

Judy O’Connell talking about search in web3 makes lots of sense. Make our search engines look more like what people are used to.

OPAC challenge for today – goal is not a search engine as we know it. We’re not working with
records any more

linkeddata will fall down if basics like the ISBN (identifier) is incorrect (or not unique)

Judy O’Connell introduced the context which Education Libraries will need to work within:
these included the Australian curriculum, the cloud and game based learning. The Library
environment is physical and virtual

Judy challenged us to think about our OPACS, they should no longer be seen as a tool for
locating records any longer. Interrogation of data from different data pools requires new
thinking and a user focus. We need to change our technology interface and a natural predictive
responsive search capacity. Web 3.0 will challenge us to make our search engines look more
like what people are used to. How can we change our technology interface to make it a
discovery interface?

We will need OPACs with a natural predictive responsive search capacity as the search
experience will influence how students see information structure. Our students conceptualize
the information and the environment differently and the way they search should impact on the
way that we organize information. Google creates the illusion of accessibility. How does search
impact the way students think?

The learning technologies environment has changed since we designed library management
systems and we must not lose sight of what is happening in other areas. The importance of RDA
and metadata mean that we cannot take old thinking into new information environments.