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Posts under ‘Huddersfield Uni’
Sliding down the long tail
At a recent event in Edinburgh, I was asked about how we generate the "people who borrowed this, also borrowed…" suggestions in our OPAC and whether or not there are privacy issues with generating them. Last week, I popped over to Manchester for a meeting of the JISC funded SALT (Surfacing the Academic Long Tail), [...]
Here comes Summ(er|on)
It's probably a sign of getting old and decrepit, but this year has just flown by – it doesn't seem like two minutes since we kicked off our implementation of Serials Solutions' Summon and now it's gone fully live (it actually went fully live halfway through the Mashed Library event we ran the other week). The [...]
Non/low library usage and final grades
Whilst chatting to one of the delegates at yesterday's "Gaining business intelligence from user activity data" event (my Powerpoint slides can be grabbed from here) about non & low-usage of library services/resources, I began wondering how that relates to final grades. In the previous blog post, we've seen that there appears to be evidence of [...]
Library usage and final grades
It's high time I started blogging again, so let's start off with something that my colleagues in the library have been talking about at recent conferences — the link between the usage of library services and the final academic grades achieved by students. As a bit of background to this, it's probably worth mentioning that [...]
Library Refurbishment — Year 3 of 3
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…
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 [...]
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 students [...]