We've had recommendations ("people who borrowed this...") based on circ data in our OPAC since 2005 and it's had a huge (positive) impact on how stock circulates and on how many items students borrower per year, e.g.
http://library.hud.ac.uk/catlink/bib/415607/cls/
If you're interested in this area, you might want to check out the JISC funded MOSAIC Project, which is seeking to get usage data (including anonymised circ data) released as Open Data:
http://www.sero.co.uk/jisc-mosaic.html
Much as I love bX, I do wonder what's stopping libraries from collaborating and doing recommendations themselves?
regards
Dave Pattern
Library Systems Manager
University of Huddersfield
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michele Newberry
Sent: 30 June 2010 16:50
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] next "next-generation library catalog"
Look at bX and BibTips:
http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=14580
http://www.bibtip.org/
- Michele
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