We're now accepting registrations for Mashed Library UK 2009: Mash Oop North! Please see the event blog for further details. ———— Blimey — we've "sold out" already! Any bookings from 2:20pm onwards today will be placed on a waiting list.
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Tracking the library angle on swine flu
For anyone who's interested in how libraries and librarians are blogging about the swine flu outbreak, I've just added a dedicated RSS feed over on the HotStuff 2.0 blog: http://www.daveyp.com/hotstuff/?p=268
Transcript of the #cilip2 Twitter hastag
Despite a widespread network failure that seemed to affect quite a few universities, I finally managed to pick up all of the #cilip2 tweets from today's event: http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/cilip2.html Whenever I get a spare half-an-hour, I'll do some analysis of the tweets. If anyone want a tab separated version of the data, you can grab it [...]
Sunny day
A gorgeous sunny day, ideal for a walk in the wood… …or for lazing around in the garden…
OCLC to launch web based ILS
I'm guessing it's safe to post this now, although I'm still expecting a phone call from lawyers representing OCLC and/or The Library Journal after "accidentally" stumbling on the news before it officially broke :-S The LJ article (written by Marshall Breeding) isn't live at the moment, but it the annoucement has appeared on the OCLC [...]
Twittering ideas
Is your library looking a little tired and shabby? Are you patrons listless and lackadaisical? Are you in need of inspiration? Have you shifted your paradigms recently? Do you believe that ideas should come at regular 15 minute intervals and always be less than 140 characters long? I should have thought of hooking the Library [...]
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 [...]
Read my shocking story
…now, that's more like it
Mashed Library UK 2009 – Mash Oop North!
The date for your diary is Tuesday 7th July 2009 and the event will take place in a large studio space in the Creative Arts Building at the University of Huddersfield. The online registration form should appear before the end of April. If you want to keep up-to-date with the event, then make sure you [...]
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 [...]