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Many of the other speakers - mostly vendors - demoed their equivalent to Google's 'Did you mean' with various names, like "Did you want". This led me to refer in my talk to this particular feature as the " Spice Girls' feature ": " Tell me what I want, what I really really want ". :-)

I am in Denver today, giving the afternoon plenary at today's Next Gen Library Interface Conference , put on by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries . I'd like to thank George Machovec , associate director of "the Alliance", for inviting me down. The meeting is a mix of vendor presentations with two plenaries: Morning Keynote: Marshall Breeding , Director for Innovative Technologies and Research, Vanderbilt University Library Vendor presentation: Encore (III) break Vendor presentation: AquaBrowser Vendor presentation: Primo (Ex Libris) lunch Afternoon Keynote: Glen Newton , Researcher, Information Science, NRC-CISTI, National Research Council Canada: Open source tools and case study . break Vendor presentation: WorldCat Local (OCLC) Vendor presentation: Indigo (TLC) Here is my presentation . PowerPoint created in Open Office. Related post (Marshal Breeding): 2008 Feb 23: Openness in the library (technology) Update March 28: Link to Colorado Alliance of Resear...