Ian On The Red Dot

I needed to do some research so I went to the National Library Site to search for books related to the stuff I needed. I totally hated the interface. And when I did find a book I might be interested in, the information given was not enough for me to make the decision if I should go down to the library to borrow it. Maybe the information was there and I wasn’t used to the interface so didn’t know how to get it.

Then I remembered BookJetty created by Herryanto Siatono of Pluit Solutions. BookJetty was a site I knew about for sometime. When I first discovered it, I thought it was a really cool and impressive mashup. That was it.

Today, I’m in love with it. Totally. In. Love. I guess it takes a moment when you really need a useful tool to appreciate a site like BookJetty. I got the needed information easily, without needing to look for how to get the information. This site is more than a mashup. I apologise for ever having thought of it just that way.
It makes you wonder how a national organisation like the National Library Board with all its resources cannot produce a tool as useful as BookJetty created by a one man team with presumably less resources (then again, intellect and ability are resources too, so I guess …).