library jargon

After some recent user feedback, I found myself, once again, checking out the library usability studies over at Library Terms That Users Understand. (Today’s choice nugget: Databases = “the base that holds the data.” Yes!)

This is a great resource I come back to whenever we get feedback from users about terms they find confusing or I just want to think about how we could say it better. Check it out! Thanks to John Kupersmith at UC Berkeley for maintaining this collection…