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RedLightGreen is now online.
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The links to Library of Congress Subject Headings proved to be an especially popular feature. Staff members said that providing users with the ability to readily discover other subject terms that they may have missed was an ingenious concept. In addition, staff was impressed with the various links to scholarly books reviews, full-text documents, and other unique Web sites. They also liked the way "More Search Options" was set up to limit search results. The ease of checking the home institution's catalog and saving citations to a choice of formats was considered an added bonus.
Tuna Breath is Judith Bush's blog that "discusses the launch and analysis of RLG.org's RedLightGreen.com website -- recasting traditional bibliographic metadata for a world that believes everything should work like Google(tm)" He introduces her blog and actually cited my reaction to MerrileeProffitt's talk at SIMS.
Here's a blurb about RedLightGreen that MerrileeProffitt sent me:
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RedLightGreen searches millions of records describing library books to put the most widely held, most relevant items near the top of any search results list, which helps students to zero in on the most credible books and authors quickly. If a particular book is widely available, it can be considered an important source of information in its subject area: selection by dozens of academic librarians is an implicit endorsement of
its worth.
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Students can use their own words to get good results from the bibliographic data in RedLightGreen. Once they have found the books they want, a few clicks will take them to the record for that book in the library catalog to check on its availability, allowing them move quickly
from finding relevant books to getting and reading those books. With a few more clicks, RedLightGreen creates a properly formatted bibliography according to MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian rules. The system also provides detailed bibliographic information on any book, including data about editions, contributors, subject classifications, and more.
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Available to any Web user, RedLightGreen is being tested in partnership with Columbia University, New York University, Swarthmore College, and
University of Minnesota during fall 2003.
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Test drive RedLightGreen at:
For more information, contact Merrilee Proffitt (mgp@notes.rlg.org).
