Re: next "next-generation library catalog"

From: Michele Newberry <fclmin_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:50:11 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Look at bX and BibTips:
   http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=14580
   http://www.bibtip.org/

- Michele

On 6/30/2010 10:46 AM, Cindy Harper wrote:
> Is anyone talking about "recommendation engines"?    I know that the idea of
> restricted vetting of materials is unpopular, but for our undergraduates,
> websites or materials recommended by faculty and scholars would be of
> interest.  If recommendation systems kept track of user categories of
> credentials, would they be more meaningful?
>
> Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
> Colgate University Libraries
> charper_at_colgate.edu
> 315-228-7363
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Eric Lease Morgan<emorgan_at_nd.edu>  wrote:
>
>    
>> At ALA I shared a podium with John Blyberg and Tim Spalding, and we all
>> gave presentations about "next generation library catalogs" as sponsored by
>> the ALA Next Generation Library Special Catalog Interest Group. Here a blurb
>> and a link to mine:
>>
>>   The Next Next-Generation Library Catalog
>>
>>   With the advent of the Internet and wide-scale availability of
>>   full-text content, people are overwhelmed with the amount of
>>   accessible data and information. Library catalogs can only go so
>>   far when it comes to delimiting what is relevant and what is not.
>>   Even when the most exact searches return 100′s of hits what is a
>>   person to do? Services against texts — digital humanities
>>   computing techniques — represent a possible answer. Whether the
>>   content is represented by novels, works of literature, or
>>   scholarly journal articles the methods of the digital humanities
>>   can provide ways to compare&  contrast, analyze, and make more
>>   useful any type of content. This essay elaborates on these ideas
>>   and describes how they can be integrated into the "next,
>>   next-generation library catalog"...
>>
>>   The next "next generation library catalog" is not about find,
>>   instead it is about use. Integrating digital humanities computing
>>   techniques into library collections and services is just one
>>   example of how this can be done.
>>
>>   http://tinyurl.com/3xcwood
>>
>> --
>> Eric Lease Morgan
>> University of Notre Dame
>>
>>      
>    

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