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What is Incremental Tailoring

Chapter 57
Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact
The process of making small changes to a computer application to achieve a final effect; typically, this involves changes to the interface for the end user.
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Computational Sense for Digital Librarians
Michael B. Twidale (University of Illinois, USA) and David M. Nichols (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-879-6.ch057
Abstract
This chapter discusses the role of technology in digital library education. It explores how elements of computer science and library science can be blended to produce an appropriate “computational sense” for future digital librarians. Elements of this approach include: metacognitive skills in learning about new computational resources, fluency in tailoring applications and a view of computing applications as codesigned artifacts that can evolve in response to the changing needs of users. The development of spreadsheets is used as an example of technological development that was well-designed to support both ease of use and incremental skill acquisition. The discussion in this chapter aims to inform the development of digital library software tools—particularly those used in educational contexts.
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