So I’m entering a contest sponsored by Northwest Airlines to win a golfing trip. (No I don’t golf but I’d be happy to take the trip to Spain anyway.) I’ve got to fill in this form and see the following: “* denotes optional field”. Come on NWA. How much are you paying these designers? Since when do you mark “optional” fields. You mark the required ones to draw attention to them. What’s the point of drawing attention to an optional field. (Never mind that there’s a total of one optional field in the whole form.)
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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