The other things that occurs to me is that if we want the library to be
important for recommendations, it has to apply to a wide variety of formats
and sources - websites, too.
Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
Colgate University Libraries
charper_at_colgate.edu
315-228-7363
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:26 PM, David Pattern <d.c.pattern_at_hud.ac.uk>wrote:
> I'd agree with you over that, Cindy.
>
> In an ideal world, our RFID returns unit would give students the option to
> quickly rate a book as they return it (seeing as the unit only accepts one
> item at a time). Hopefully, one of these days, I'll persuade our RFID
> supplier to add that functionality to the unit's touch screen.
>
> regards
> Dave
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:
> NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cindy Harper
> Sent: 30 June 2010 17:18
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] next "next-generation library catalog"
>
> These sound very interesting. The only problem I see with circ-based or
> view-based recommendation engines is that make my "recommendation" of
> something that I checked out and found excellent equivalent to something I
> checked out and found to be poor. But then, I suppose word-of-mouth would
> moderate the number of users choosing the "horrible" items. But we
> probably
> couldn't get scholars to partcipate in an active service such as a ratings
> system, or could we?
>
> Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
> Colgate University Libraries
> charper_at_colgate.edu
> 315-228-7363
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:02 PM, David Pattern <d.c.pattern_at_hud.ac.uk
> >wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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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