Visual Boolean

Reading Merryll's comment about Visual Search in Ebsco, I had an "ah ha" moment.

Visual Search seems to works like a Boolean search in limiting (and then organizing) your results with a picture (squares and circles). I checked out Grokker, too. It is intriguing.

It begins to makes sense and I can see how it would be helpful if you weren't exactly sure where you wanted to go and what might be available.

Merryll sent a link to Oklahoma State as another example of a visual search.

Reminds me of the PennTags by the University of Pennsylvania social bookmarking site.

A picture can be worth a thousand words.

FYI - Merryl is GALILEO's Merryll S. Penson, Executive Director, Library Services, Office of Information and Instructional Technology, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Thank you for reading and commenting.