L&LR staff blog

Over the past year (and increasingly frantically over the past few weeks), I’ve been working to liberate a small amount of the Library’s recent book-circulation data, as part of a national project (“MOSAIC – Making Our Shared Activity Information Count”) investigating the possibilities around exploiting “user activity data” within university libraries. I’m immensely relieved that [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m in here a couple of times, looking bemused. These were mostly taken by Dave Pattern (Huddersfield) and are on flickr. #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px [...]

Google have launched an API for their Book Search, and Dave Pattern is already wondering how to nail it to his OPAC… Paul

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!)