A good couple of years ago, I blogged about "lending paths", but we've not really progressed things any further since then. I still like the idea that you can somehow predict books that people might/should borrow and also when you might get a sudden rush of demand on a particular title. Anyway, whilst heading back [...]
Posts Tagged ‘huddersfield’
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 [...]
Mashed Library UK 2009 — Open for Business!
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.
Sunny day
A gorgeous sunny day, ideal for a walk in the wood… …or for lazing around in the garden…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]