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, [...]
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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 [...]
Mashed Libraries — "Mash Oop North"?
I'll try and make some time to blog about the excellent dev8D event, but on Thursday morning I had a chat with Owen Stephens about running a Mashed Libraries event in Yorkshire. Earlier on in the week, the name "Mash Oop North" sprang into my head[1]. With a name like that, it'd be rude not [...]
It's raining squirrels
Squirrels falling out of the sky isn't something that's unheard of in Huddersfield — see this BBC News story about an inventor who suffered whiplash from a falling squirrel — but I'd not seen it happen until yesterday. Late yesterday afternoon, we ventured out into the snow and had a little wander through the local [...]
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 [...]
Talis Podcast
I can't remember if I was using my "posh telephone voice", but Richard Wallis has just posted a podcast that was recorded yesterday afternoon with Patrick Murray-John. It's definitely worth fast-forwarding past my inane waffley bits to listen to Patrick's comments, as he makes some great points. Using usage data for marketing purposes wasn't something [...]