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Footnote

The many hands-on examples throughout the book and the four case studies at the end of the book are obvious strong points linking theory with practice. The four case studies are very useful, and it is hard to find such cases in the literature since few companies want to publicize such information. The four case studies are not just simple repeats; they are very different from each other and provide readers specific examples to analyze and follow. Web Usability is an excellent textbook, with a wrap-up (including discussion questions, design exercises, and suggested reading) at the end of each chapter. Each wrap-up first outlines where the focus should be placed, corresponding to what was presented at the very beginning of each chapter. Discussion questions help recall in an active way the main points in each chapter. The design exercises make readers apply to a design project what they have just obtained from the chapter, leading to a deeper understanding of knowledge. Suggested reading provides additional information sources for people who want to further study the research topic, which bridges the educational community back to academia. The book is enhanced by two universal resource locators (URLs) linking to the Addison-Wesley instructor resource center (http://www. aw.com/irc) and the Web-Star survey and project deliverables (http:// www. aw.com/cssupport), respectively. There are valuable resources in these two URLs, which can be used together with Web Usability. Like the Web, books are required to possess good information architecture to facilitate understanding. Fortunately, Web Usability has very clear information architecture. Chap. 1 introduces the user-centered Web-development life cycle, which is composed of seven stages. Chap. 2 discusses Stage l, chaps. 3 and 4 detail Stage 2, chaps. 5 through 7 outline Stage 3, and chaps. 8 through I1 present Stages 4 through 7, respectively. In chaps. 2 through 11, details (called "methods" in this review) are given for every stage of the methodology. The main clue of the book is how to design a new Web site; however, this does not mean that Web redesign is trivial and ignored. The author mentions Web redesign issues from time to time, and a dedicated section is presented to discuss redesign in chaps. 2, 3, 10, and 11.

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Footnote

Rez. in: JASIST 55(2004) no.11, S.1025-1026 (D.E. Agosto): ""Did you ever feel as though the Internet has caused you to lose control of your library?" So begins the introduction to this volume of over 50 articles, essays, library policies, and other documents from a variety of sources, most of which are library journals aimed at practitioners. Volume editor Block has a long history of library service as well as an active career as an online journalist. From 1977 to 1999 she was the Associate Director of Public Services at the St. Ambrose University library in Davenport, Iowa. She was also a Fox News Online weekly columnist from 1998 to 2000. She currently writes for and publishes the weekly ezine Exlibris, which focuses an the use of computers, the Internet, and digital databases to improve library services. Despite the promising premise of this book, the final product is largely a disappointment because of the superficial coverage of its issues. A listing of the most frequently represented sources serves to express the general level and style of the entries: nine articles are reprinted from Computers in Libraries, five from Library Journal, four from Library Journal NetConnect, four from ExLibris, four from American Libraries, three from College & Research Libraries News, two from Online, and two from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Most of the authors included contributed only one item, although Roy Tennant (manager of the California Digital Library) authored three of the pieces, and Janet L. Balas (library information systems specialist at the Monroeville Public Library in Pennsylvania) and Karen G. Schneider (coordinator of lii.org, the Librarians' Index to the Internet) each wrote two. Volume editor Block herself wrote six of the entries, most of which have been reprinted from ExLibris. Reading the volume is muck like reading an issue of one of these journals-a pleasant experience that discusses issues in the field without presenting much research. Net Effects doesn't offer much in the way of theory or research, but then again it doesn't claim to. Instead, it claims to be an "idea book" (p. 5) with practical solutions to Internet-generated library problems. While the idea is a good one, little of the material is revolutionary or surprising (or even very creative), and most of the solutions offered will already be familiar to most of the book's intended audience.

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Content

In dieser Sichtweise sind intellektuelle Schlüsselerlebnisse großer Mathematikerbiographien weniger Bewegungsstadien eines Schwungrads als ablesbare Pegelstände auf Meßinstrumenten; es ist, wie Atiyah schreibt, der "Druck der Ereignisse" im Wissenschaftssystem in toto, der den Fortschritt erzwingt. So listet denn auch Michael Monastyrsky, dessen "Geschmack und Übersicht" in diesen Dingen vom Physiker, Autor populärwissenschaftlicher Bücher und Kenner der Materie Freeman Dyson besonders hervorgehoben werden, in seinem kleinen Buch "Die moderne Mathematik im Lichte der Fields-Medaille" von 1998 nicht einfach positivistisch Namen und Leistungen der Preisträger auf, sondern ordnet den in der Medaillengeschichte aufgehobenen Fortschritt nach Feldern - Topologie, Zahlentheorie, Algebra und so weiter -, obwohl es "Kategorien" etwa im Sinne des Disziplinensystems beim Nobelpreis für die FieldsMedaille nicht gibt. Jenseits der so entworfenen Karte der mathematischen Welt mit mal produktiven, mal unproduktiven Standorten erinnert Monastyrsky in seiner Monographie aber auch an den geographischen und historischen Zufall, der hier wie überall sonst in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte mehr Macht ausübt als selbst das erlesenste Preiskomitee. - Die Objektivität hörte an der russischen Grenze auf - "Wenn die sowjetischen Mathematiker nicht zwangsweise vom Rest der mathematischen Welt isoliert .worden wären, hätte er den Preis gewiß erhalten", schreibt der Fields-Chronist über Lew Genrichowitsch Schnirelman, einen 1905 geborenen russischen Mathematiker, der sich aus bis heute ungeklärten Gründen 1938 das Leben nahm, nachdem er zusammen mit L. A. Ljusternik ein schwieriges Problem aus der Geometrie gelöst, einen neuen Begriff ins Fachgebiet der Topologie eingebracht und auch als Zahlentheoretiker Bedeutendes geleistet hatte. Die nüchterne Feststellung, daß dieser Mann die Medaille nicht bekommen hat, die doch nach objektiven Kriterien für ebenso objektive Errungenschaften verliehen werden soll, die er ja vorzuweisen hatte, ist ebenso lakonisch wie bewegend, das in ihr hörbare Echo der IkarosGeschichte leise, aber durchdringend. Ein anderer Fall eines potentiellen Preisträgers, der die Medaille nie bekam, ist zur Zeit im Kino zu besichtigen: John Forbes Nash Jr., dem man, wie es in der deutschen Synchronfassung des Films "A Beautiful Mind" unter Tilgung des Preiseigennamens heißt, "den Mathematikerpreis" vorenthalten hat. Schöner kann man nicht behaupten, daß es im Grunde nur diesen einen geben könne. Nash wäre sehr gern Preisträger gewesen - er hat nicht nur, wie "A Beautiful Mind" zeigt, der Spieltheorie John von Neumanns und Oskar Morgensterns wichtige Gedanken hinzugefügt, sondern auch Probleme der reinen Mathematik wie die Einbettung sogenannter Riemannscher Mannigfaltigkeiten (gleichsam einer besonderen Art abstrakter Flächen) in euklidische (das heißt den Gesetzen der Schulgeometrie entsprechende sozusagen "flache") Räume untersucht, wobei ihm wichtige Funde glückten. Wie seine Biographin Sylvia Nasar, auf deren Werk das Filmdrehbuch basiert, ausführlich schildert, hat Nash persönlich einige zum Teil tragikomische Anstrengungen unternommen, um sich die "Auszeichnung aller Auszeichnungen" (Nasar) für das Jahr 1958 zu sichern. Er ging leer aus; bei der nächsten Gelegenheit, 1962, war es, um die Kränkung vollkommen zu machen, sogar ein persönlicher Bekannter und Kollege am selben Arbeitsplatz, der die Medaille an Nashs Stelle erhielt: der Princetoner Mathematiker John Milnor, mit dem Nash eine etwas instabile Freundschaft verband. Anders als Nash hatte Milnor nicht lange nach preiswürdigen Problemen suchen müssen; sein Beweis, daß eine siebendimensionale Sphäre verschiedene Differentialstrukturen haben kann, beeindruckte nicht nur das Fields-Komitee, sondern war auch der Keim eines neuen eigenständigen Feldes, der sogenannten Differentialtopologie.