Abstract

Editorial Board Thoughts: Issue Introduction
 Discovery: What Do You Mean by That?

Highlights

  • Mwuah ha ha ha haaa! it’s my turn

  • This issue is a compilation of presentations from the Discovery Mini-Conference held at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries in the spring of 2009

  • The first article by Jennifer Fabbi gives the full chronology and framework of the project, but I have the pleasure of introducing this issue and topic by virtue of my role as guest editor, as well as my own participation in the MiniConference before I left UNLV in July 2009

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Summary

Judith Carter

Mwuah ha ha ha haaa! it’s my turn. I hold the power of the editorial. (Can you tell I’m writing this around Halloween?) Seriously I’ve been intimately and extensively involved with Information Technology and Libraries for eleven years, yet this is the first time I’ve escaped from behind the editing scenes to address the readership directly. 23–26), I am honored Marc agreed to let me be guest editor for this theme issue This issue is a compilation of presentations from the Discovery Mini-Conference held at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries in the spring of 2009. But a little theoretical for a visual presentation To make these themes more concrete and visual, I suggested we apply them to personas as described in one of my favorite books, The Inmates are Running the Asylum.[3] This encourages programmers to create a user with a full backstory and design a product for their needs. I created some colorful and representational characters using a well-known, alliteratively named candy’s website

Our five characters were
To satisfy curiosity or be entertained
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