For those investigating a shelf browse (and for those that have
implemented one), I have a few questions:

Where is the feature demand originating? Staff? Faculty? Students? Grad
students? Undergrad students? (Not to exclude publics or special
libraries, but this seems to be an academic catalog feature, when it shows
up.)

What is the level of familiarity with library/library services/library
systems for those that request this feature?

Is implementing shelf browse an attempt to work around some other catalog
deficiency (e.g. weak subject cataloging)?

Does the corpus have the cataloging data to support such a feature? (A lot
of ebook packages do not have call numbers, for example.) What¹s the
percentage? Is that reasonable?

How do you plan on tracking use of the feature? What would you consider to
be a success rate? 20% of sessions? 5%? 1%?

At what point do you sunset the feature? Expand upon it?

How long will the feature take to implement? How many staff will be
involved? What is the ROI?

Will all of your users understand the visual implementation on the page?
How do you plan on testing it?

Does the shelf metaphor still hold for your users? How do you know?

-Sean

On 1/28/15, 8:30 AM, "Darylyne Provost" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>We're interested in implementing a virtual browse feature as well, so I
>was
>glad to find this post.
>
>Since we have a shared catalog and the feature is currently under
>discussion by our partner institutions, we're also considering
>implementing
>it for our installation of Summon first. I've seen U of Huddersfield, but
>am wondering if there are additional examples?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Darylyne
>
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>Assistant Director for Systems, Web, & Emerging Technologies
>Colby College
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>On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Gerritsma, Wouter
><[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>> Beautiful to see that the meticulously recorded book height is put into
>> use.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Harper, Cynthia
>> Sent: dinsdag 27 januari 2015 21:27
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
>>
>> What testimony to what a difference presentation can make!  So much
>>better
>> than basically the same functionality, but in a text list, as shown in
>>our
>> old III Webpac.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Cole Hudson
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 9:57 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
>>
>> Hi Jenn,
>>
>> Just to add one example more to the mix, we've built a shelf browser
>>based
>> on Harvard's Stackview/Stacklife project--adding to it a z39.50
>>connector
>> and organizing results by call number. This search works across all of
>> holdings, regardless of the books' locations. (Click the link, then
>>under
>> the Books and Media box, click See on Shelf to look at our shelf
>>browser.)
>>
>> http://library.wayne.edu/quicksearch/#q=the%20hobbit
>>
>> Also, our code is on Github: https://github.com/WSULib/SVCatConnector
>>
>> Cole
>>