www.slideshare.net\/daveyp\/<\/a><\/p>\nKeyword suggestions – about 25% of keyword searches on Huddersfield OPAC give zero results.
\nLook at what people are typing in the keyword search – Huddersfield found ‘renew’ was a common search term – so can pop up a information box with information about renewing your books.<\/p>\n
By looking at common keyword combinations can help people refine their searches<\/p>\n
Borrowing suggestions – people who borrowed this item, also borrowed …
\nTesco’s collect and exploit this data. Do libraries sometimes assume we know what is best for our users – but we perhaps need to look at data to prove or disprove our assumptions<\/p>\n
Because borrowing driven by reading lists, perhaps helps suggestions stay on-topic<\/p>\n
Course specific ‘new books’ list – based on what people on specific courses borrow
\nAble to do amazon-y type personalised suggestions<\/p>\n
Borrowing profile for Huddersfield – average number of books borrowed shows v high peak in October, lull during the summer – now can see the use of the suggestions following this with a peak in November.<\/p>\n
Seems to be a correlation between introduction of suggestions\/recommendations with increase in borrowing – how could this be investigated further?<\/p>\n
Started collecting e-journal data via SFX – starting to do journal recommendations based on usage.<\/p>\n
Suggested scenario – can start seeding new students experience – 1st time student accesses website can use ‘average’ behaviour of students on same course – so highly personalised. Also, if information delivered via widgets could drag and drop to other environments.<\/p>\n
JISC Mosaic project, looking at usage data (at National level I think?)<\/p>\n
So – some ideas of stuff that you might do with usage data:<\/p>\n
#1 Basic library account info:
\nJust your bog standard library optionss
\n– view items on loan. hold requests etc
\n– renew items
\nConfgure alerting options
\n– SMS, Facebook, Google Teleppathy
\nConvert Karma
\n– rewards for sharing information\/contributing to pool of data – perhaps swap karma points for free services\/waiving fines etc.<\/p>\n
#2 Discovery service
\nSingle box for search<\/p>\n
#3 Book recommendations
\nStudents like book covers
\nPrimarily a ‘we think you might be interested in’ service
\nUses database of circulation transactions, augmented with Mosaic data
\ntime relevant to the modules student is taking
\nAsapts to choices student makes over time<\/p>\n
#4 New books
\nData-mining of books borrowed by student on a course
\nProvide new books lists based on this information (already doing this at Huddersfield I think)<\/p>\n
#5 Relevant Journals<\/p>\n
#6 Relevant articles
\n– Whenever student interacts with library services e.g. keywords etc. – refines their profile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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