Comments on: understanding what users understand http://www.librarian.net/stax/1679/understanding-what-users-understand/ putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:05:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Speaking My Language « MaisonBisson.com http://www.librarian.net/stax/1679/understanding-what-users-understand/comment-page-1/#comment-5508 Speaking My Language « MaisonBisson.com Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:29:15 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1679#comment-5508 [...] The point of all this in a post from Jessamyn about understanding what users understand. [...] [...] The point of all this in a post from Jessamyn about understanding what users understand. [...]

]]> By: Sarah Houghton (LiB) http://www.librarian.net/stax/1679/understanding-what-users-understand/comment-page-1/#comment-4081 Sarah Houghton (LiB) Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:47:58 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1679#comment-4081 We used this research while redesigning our library's website the last time around. The author, John Kupersmith, is a working librarian but also a library commissioner for my current (soon to be former) employer, the Marin County Free Library. His work is very valuable to those doing the naming of things in libraries... We used this research while redesigning our library’s website the last time around. The author, John Kupersmith, is a working librarian but also a library commissioner for my current (soon to be former) employer, the Marin County Free Library. His work is very valuable to those doing the naming of things in libraries…

]]> By: Rabbitinpumpkin http://www.librarian.net/stax/1679/understanding-what-users-understand/comment-page-1/#comment-4026 Rabbitinpumpkin Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:58:41 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1679#comment-4026 Sweet Jebus, Thank God. While doing my culminating (which prevented me from seeing Jess at SJSU last semester) I was tearing up the place to find some conclusive studies on the word "database" was confusing. Fortunately I still passed by excluding that sentence out, but was sad that I couldn't get a source on this obvious glossary problem. I'll pass it along to my library. We suffer from lack of decent slogans. and a marketing budget. wee.... Sweet Jebus, Thank God. While doing my culminating (which prevented me from seeing Jess at SJSU last semester) I was tearing up the place to find some conclusive studies on the word “database” was confusing. Fortunately I still passed by excluding that sentence out, but was sad that I couldn’t get a source on this obvious glossary problem.

I’ll pass it along to my library. We suffer from lack of decent slogans. and a marketing budget. wee….

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