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 [...]
Posts under ‘Huddersfield Uni’
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, [...]
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 [...]
3 Million
Aaron's cool Wordle visualisations prompted me to have a look at our ever growing log of OPAC keyword searches (see this blog post from 2006). We've been collecting the keyword searches for just over 2.5 years and, sometime within the last 7 days, the 3 millionth entry was logged. Not that I ever need an [...]
ITV Unforgiven – campus shots
Following on from the last blog post, here's some of the "on-campus" photos… (that naughty faked "York" signage) (Quayside, staged to look like a student cafeteria) (The Art & Design section of the Main Library — apparently the few seconds of footage that appeared in the final programme took 3 hours to shoot!) (St Paul's [...]
Hey up — we're on TV!
The last episode of "Unforgiven" (IMDB) has just finished, and it featured quite a bit of footage filmed on-campus at the University of Huddersfield — mostly in the new Creative Arts Building, opposite the library… However, if you watched the programme, you probably spotted that the TV production crew covered up the University of Huddersfield [...]
Yay!
I'm feeling extra proud today — the results of the Times Higher Education's annual Student Experience Survey are out and the library at Huddersfield has been ranked equal seventh for the library facilities! The survey results are for 101 institutions, so it's wonderful to see that our library is ranked in the top 10%
Free book usage data from the University of Huddersfield
I'm very proud to announce that Library Services at the University of Huddersfield has just done something that would have perhaps been unthinkable a few years ago: we've just released a major portion of our book circulation and recommendation data under an Open Data Commons/CC0 licence. In total, there's data for over 80,000 titles derived [...]