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Comments for Ambient Findability
Ambient Findability: 09/28/11
Ambient Findability by Peter Morville is often used as a textbook in the reference course I took. The professor I took it from didn't include the book but the title and the fact that it was published by O'Reilly Media piqued my interest enough to want to read it as the class was starting up.
Although the description mentions information overload, the book isn't really about that. It's about how information and people hook up. There is the information that one seeks and that which falls into one's lap.
Morville begins his book by wondering how the reader has come across his book. He goes on to wonder if anyone will find his book.
Much of the book is a discussion on techniques of cataloguing information so it can be found again. It isn't though an SEO recipe book. Instead it is a call for professionalism, consistency and intelligence behind how information is gathered, sorted and marked for retrieval.
I read a library book via interlibrary loan. Someday I would like my own copy.
Five stars.
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