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%
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Presentation to the TILE Project meeting in London
About 90 minutes ago, I had the pleasure of doing a short presentation to the JISC TILE Project's "Sitting on a gold mine" workshop in London. Unfortunately I wasn't able to present in person, so we had a go doing it all via a video conferencing link. As far as I can tell, it seemed [...]
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 [...]
Coming soon, to a blog near here…
Okay — I'm the first to admit I don't blog enough… I still haven't even blogged about how great Mashed Library 2008 was (luckily other attendees have already blogged about it!) Anyway, unless I get run over by a bus, later on this week I'm going to post something fairly big — well, it's about [...]
Dewey friend wheel
I've been meaning to have a stab at creating something similar to a friend wheel, but using library data, for a while now. Here's a prototype which uses our "people who borrowed this, also borrowed…" data to try find strong borrowing relationships… I picked three random Dewey numbers and hacked together a quick PerlMagick script [...]
Our books, arranged by Hue and Lightness
Sunday afternoons were made for doing this kind of thing… (click here for the biggest version) Several thousand of our books, arranged vertically by hue and horizontally by lightness. The value was calculated by finding the average colour of the book cover and then converting that to the relevant HSL value. There's a little bit [...]
Congratulations!
May the road rise up to meet you May the wind be ever at your back May the sun shine warm upon your face And the rain fall softly on your fields Congratulations to our friends, Amanda and Paul, who tied the knot yesterday on a sunny autumnal day in Yorkshire!
Green eco-friendly catalogue PCs
Warning — long blog post ahead! I've been promising to post something about our new catalogue PCs …but first, a bit of background: Like most large(ish) academic libraries, we've got dedicated catalogues PCs… lots of them… on every floor! From memory, we had at least 35 of them before the start of the refurbishment. We [...]
Playing with Processing
Iman first mentioned Processing ages ago, but it's only recently I've gotten around to having a play with it. So, this is my first stab at coming up with something visual and it's in the same vein as Dewey Blobs… …you'll need Java installed to view it. Rather than lay Dewey out on a 2D [...]
World exclusive!
This is a little naughty of me — posting pictures of the two subject floors that have undergone refurbishment this year before many of our library staff have had chance to see them in person Last summer, we refurb'd the entrance floor of the library and rebranded it as the "Student Centre" to reflect the [...]