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Posts Tagged ‘terminology’

I’m New @ the Library

Monday, September 3rd, 2012

I’m new but I’m old.
new AND old
AND OR NOT
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(Nesting)
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New vocabulary. Sort. The most relevant items are not necessarily at the top.
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Terms are couched. Couched in their own terms – nested, truncated, and wild.
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New at the library. New at libguides. New at libcoaching. Old at libcoaxing.
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Jargon Junction

Monday, March 1st, 2010

This is Matt again.
So, in case you hadn’t noticed, the library’s just launched a new web site.  And one big thing that’s changed was something that surprised me.
A lot of the words I use all the time and think are obvious are instead off-putting jargon to people.  So while the old website was filled with [...]