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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