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  • Ideo and the Design Process
    Posted August 10, 2010 by Ben Crowder

    Ideo is one of the most successful design agencies in the world. Here is the elevator pitch from their website, ideo.com: Founded in 1991, IDEO is an innovation and design firm that uses a human-centered, design-based approach to help organizations in the business, government, education, and social sectors innovate and grow in three ways: Identify [...]

  • New Spice
    Posted July 16, 2010 by Ben Crowder

    We love the new library video – New Spice. Watch it several times – it just gets better and better.

  • Building Community
    Posted June 4, 2010 by Ben Crowder

    Five years ago byu.edu went through a redesign. I was hired by the Library at this time and joined the Web Advisory Board. Unfortunately, I was too late to make much of a difference to the trajectory of the redesign project. I didn’t like the solution but felt I was powerless to do anything about it. [...]

  • Linked Data
    Posted May 20, 2010 by Ben Crowder

    Barbara Tillett of the the Library of Congress was in our library this week speaking on the subject of Linked Data, RDF and RDA, the new cataloging standard based on RDF. I have been really excited about this topic since Web Directions North in February 2009. Unfortunately, I had no idea that the Library of Congress [...]

  • Patron to Patron Lending
    Posted June 10, 2009 by Ben Crowder

    My book, your book, lets share all of our books!

  • Using Book Reviews
    Posted June 4, 2009 by Ben Crowder

    ScholarSearch includes book review functionality for those of us at BYU, but I would like to see book reviews from outside sources in our catalog and in ScholarSearch.

  • Deep Search in ScholarSearch
    Posted May 27, 2009 by Jared Howland

    Searching multiple databases simultaneously currently has many shortcomings including very slow results, inaccurate facets and less-than optimal relevancy ranking. Implementing Deep Search for ScholarSearch would eliminate all of those shortcomings and allow for a better search experience.

  • Idea Lab
    Posted by Jared Howland

    I would like to create a system that would allow anyone to contribute ideas to the library. You would then be able to vote on your favorite ideas. The most popular ideas would be implemented by the library.

  • Library Forum
    Posted May 5, 2009 by Ben Crowder

    Would a forum be helpful for students, library employees, or professorial faculty? I don’t know! What do you think?

  • Faculty Submissions to the Institutional Repository
    Posted April 28, 2009 by Ben Crowder

    Gathering the output of scholars is challenging. Would a simple CONTENTdm interface make the problem easier or harder to solve?