Our blue-skies library ‘un-project’ (which is still codenamed Jerome) took a significant step forward this week, as Nick Jackson has described on the Jerome blog. Thanks to some clever Horizon-wrangling code (courtesy of Dave Pattern at the University of Huddersfield), Jerome will soon provide searchable access to the whole library catalogue of the University of [...]
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The case for opening up library data: #jiscmosaic at Wolves
I made the (deceptively long) journey over to the city campus of the University of Wolverhampton yesterday (18 Nov 2009) for the concluding JISC MOSAIC project event. I was without an Internet connection all day so wasn’t able to waste time contribute to the backchannel by tweeting from the event, so here’s my writeup. Interlude 1: [...]
We’re not un-hot
Dave Pattern‘s HotStuff 2.0 blog analyses more than 800 ‘biblioblogs’ in an attempt to discover new and/or interesting topics… “Just for fun, every day the last 3 blog posts from each blog are analysed to give a “Hot or Not” score. Points are gained for using words that haven’t been used frequently in the past, [...]
Sharing book usage data for the benefit of all
The University of Huddersfield have made their circulation usage and recommendation data free and reusable for the benefit of other libraries. Library systems manager, Dave Pattern, envisions a “book recommendation service that makes Amazon’s look amateurish”, made possible through more and more libraries doing the same. Dave asks: “whether or not you can augment this [...]
Mashed Library ’08 – proper writeup
I promised to turn my as-it-happened notes from last week’s Mashed Library event into a proper, readable account of the day. A few other attendees have already written up their respective ‘takes’, including Tony Hirst, Paul Walk, Jo Alcock and organiser Owen Stephens, to whom credit is due. Here’s my effort… The day started interestingly [...]
Change to e-book links on HiP
Chris L. and I have made a couple of changes to the way e-book links work on the public catalogue. I’ve put a message on the public blog about the most obvious difference – MyiLibrary titles now open up in a new browser window – this seemed to be something that annoyed a lot of [...]
Google Book Search Data API
Google have launched an API for their Book Search, and Dave Pattern is already wondering how to nail it to his OPAC… Paul
Huddersfield’s EcOPACs
Dave Pattern, systems librarian at Huddersfield (whose blog I follow religiously) has just posted about how he’s potentially saving his university thousands of pounds a year and at the same time keeping Huddersfield green by replacing their ’beige boxes’ with low-energy-use OPACs. Paul (taking a break from late-night MSc work!)
