It doesn't seem two minutes since the library refurbisment started, but we're now into the final year of the project. This time, it's floors 2 and 3 that are getting the treatment. I'll be snapping some shots of floor 2 tomorrow, but here's some from (the now closed) floor 3…
Posts under ‘Huddersfield Uni’
Quick plug: CILIP U&CR Y&H Open Source event
Just a quick plug to say that there are still spaces available at the "Open Source: Free Speech, Free Beer and Free Kittens!" event at Hudderfield on Friday 26th June. Full details and a link to the booking form are available on the CILIP University College and Research Group web site.
Speakers at the event [...]
Web service for the free book usage data
I've been meaning to get around to adding a web service front end on to the book usage data that we released in December for ages. So, better late than never, here it is!
It's not the fastest bit of code I've ever written, but (if there's enough interest) I could speed it up.
The web [...]
Keyword search data
We've been logging all keyword searches on our OPAC for nearly 3 years and now have details for over 3 million searches. Just in case the data is of any use to anyone, I've uploaded an aggregated XML version to our web server: http://library.hud.ac.uk/data/keyworddata/
As with the usage data, we're putting it out there with [...]
Books that connect users
I thought it would be interesting to trawl the data and find out which books have been borrowed by the largest number of different courses within the university. I forget what the correct Graph Theory term is, but these are the books (nodes?) that connect together (edges?) the largest number of separate groups of [...]
The impact of serendipity (part 2)
I promised I'd dig a bit deeper into the book data, so here goes!
We have seven academic schools in the university, so I thought it would be interesting to see how the range of titles broke down by each school. As previously noted, the borrowing patterns seem to have changed at the end of [...]
A library dating service
In my UKSG presentation, I briefly touched on the need for library services (perhaps the OPAC, but perhaps not) to start joining users together in the same way that sites like Facebook do.
In the same way that a "people who borrowed this, also borrowed…" service starts exposing the hidden links between items on shelves, I [...]
The impact of book suggestions/recommendations?
Whilst finalising my presentation for the 2009 UKSG Conference in Torquay, I thought it would be interested to dig into the circulation data to see if there was any indication that our book recommendation/suggestion services (i.e. "people who borrowed this, also borrowed…" and "we think you might be interested in…") have had any impact on [...]
QR Codes in the OPAC?
Just wondering if anyone out there is already experimenting with QR Codes in their OPAC?
We're trying to figure out the best way of providing item location information (e.g. floor and shelfmark), so I'm interested to know if anyone has already done this.
Mash Oop North
Coming this summer…
We're hoping to fix the date soon, but it's likely to be on or around Tuesday July 7th at the University of Huddersfield.
If it is July 7th, then we'd be able to celebrate:
the Roswell UFO incident
the very first piece of commercially sliced bread
…that both events occurred on July 7th is not a coincidence [...]