These examples are fantastic! Thanks for the write-ups!

I think a real value add to this kind of service would be some sort of
bibliographic tool. If students could save article citations/links in
the system, create lists of books/articles for each paper they write,
and export bibliographies from that, I they would have a near-seamless
research process. Don't know if that's possible though. Many students
find current bibliographic/resource management software extremely hard
to use, so they settle for citation generators instead. And this could
solve the problem of them having to email article links to themselves to
find those same articles later. One stop shopping, as it were. /ramble

~val

Valerie Forrestal
Web Services Librarian/Asst. Professor
City University of New York
College of Staten Island Library
2800 Victory Blvd., 1L-109I
Staten Island, N.Y. 10314
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On 3/23/2016 2:55 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Mark Weiler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I'm doing some exploratory research on personalization of academic library websites. E.g. student logs in, the site presents books due dates, room reservations, course list with associated course readings, subject librarians.  For faculty members, the site might present other information, such as how to put material on course reserves, deposit material into institutional repository, etc.   Has anyone looked into this, or tried it?
> I did quite a bit of work on this idea quite a number of years ago, measured in Internet time. See:
>
>    MyLibrary@NCState (1999)
>    http://infomotions.com/musings/sigir-99/
>
>    The text describes MyLibrary@NCState, an extensible
>    implementation of a user-centered, customizable interface to a
>    library's collection of information resources. The system
>    integrates principles of librarianship with globably networked
>    computing resources creating a dynamic, customer-driven front-end
>    to any library's set of materials. It supports a framework for
>    libraries to provide enhanced access to local and remote sets of
>    data, information, and knowledge. At the same, it does not
>    overwhelm its users with too much information because the users
>    control exactly how much information is displayed to them at any
>    given time. The system is active and not passive; direct human
>    interaction, computer mediated guidance and communication
>    technologies, as well as current awareness services all play
>    indispensible roles in its implementation.
>
>
>    MyLibrary: A Copernican revolution in libraries (2005)
>    http://infomotions.com/musings/copernican-mylibrary/
>
>    "We are suffering from information overload," the speaker said.
>    "There is too much stuff to choose from. We want access to the
>    world's knowledge, but we only want to see one particular part of
>    it at any one particular time."... The speaker was part of a
>    focus group at the North Carolina State University (NCSU),
>    Raleigh, back in 1997... To address the issues raised in our
>    focus groups, the NCSU Libraries chose to create MyLibrary, an
>    Internet-based library service. It would mimic the commercial
>    portals in functionality but include library content: lists of
>    new books, access to the catalog and other bibliographic indexes,
>    electronic journals, Internet sites, circulation services,
>    interlibrary loan services, the local newspaper, and more. Most
>    importantly, we designed the system to provide access to our most
>    valuable resource: the expertise of our staff. After all, if you
>    are using My Yahoo! and you have a question, then who are you
>    going to call? Nobody. But if you are using a library and you
>    have a question, then you should be able to reach a librarian.
>
>
>    MyLibrary: A digital library framework & toolkit (2008)
>    http://infomotions.com/musings/mylibrary-framework/
>
>    This article describes a digital library framework and toolkit
>    called MyLibrary. At its heart, MyLibrary is designed to create
>    relationships between information resources and people. To this
>    end, MyLibrary is made up of essentially four parts: 1)
>    information resources, 2) patrons, 3) librarians, and 4) a set of
>    locally-defined, institution-specific facet/term combinations
>    interconnecting the first three. On another level, MyLibrary is a
>    set of object-oriented Perl modules intended to read and write to
>    a specifically shaped relational database. Used in conjunction
>    with other computer applications and tools, MyLibrary provides a
>    way to create and support digital library collections and
>    services. Librarians and developers can use MyLibrary to create
>    any number of digital library applications: full-text indexes to
>    journal literature, a traditional library catalog complete with
>    circulation, a database-driven website, an institutional
>    repository, an image database, etc. The article describes each of
>    these points in greater detail.
>
> Technologically, the problem of personalization is not difficult. Instead, the problem I encountered in trying to make a thing like MyLibrary a reality were library professional ethics. Too many librarians thought the implementation of the idea challenged intellectual privacy. Alas.
>
> —
> Eric Lease Morgan
> Artist- And Librarian—At-Large
>
> (574) 485-6870


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