Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

The May edition of Péter’s Digital Reference Shelf reviews both the New York Times Book Review Archive and RedLightGreen.  The RLG review was of particular interest to me:

RLG can’t make wonders from the heterogeneous catalog records of its member libraries, but it goes the furthest in offering a huge free catalog with an interface calibrated for collegiate end users who don’t speak the library lingo and don’t care to learn it.

Users who don’t care to learn library lingo?  Say it isn’t so!  We all know that this is the trend in online user interfaces for libraries–take the "lingo" out and replace it with some common sense and straightforward navigation.  RLG has done that, and bully for them for doing so.  Glad to see Péter agrees