Try http://www.lib.umich.edu/my-account/favorites/faq -- we have a crazy
authentication system where https is the signifier for authenticated
access, http is for unauthenticated. We're in the process of changing this
(long overdue), I should note.
--
Ken Varnum
Senior Program Manager for Discovery, Delivery, and Learning Analytics
Library Information Technology | University of Michigan Library
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http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Charlie Morris <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Ken,
>
> I'm interested in reading more about this, but the link you provided sends
> me to login screen:
> https://www.lib.umich.edu/my-account/favorites/faq
>
> Is there a blogpost or something else (a repo?) that provides more
> information?
>
> Sounds neat!
>
> Thank you,
> Charlie
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Ken Varnum <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> We have something like this; a "favorites" tool that lets logged-in users
>> save individual items from the catalog, ArticlesPlus (our Summon-based
>> article discovery interface), databases (from our database finder) and
>> journals (from our journal finder) to their account. You can organize them
>> into folders, and export lists of citations. The tool uses the campus
>> single sign-on system (CoSign); since the campus allows anyone to set up a
>> "friend" account with just an email address, anyone can create a library
>> account and save things. This free Friend account does not, of course,
>> provide access to our licensed content, though you can search freely --
>> clicking the full text link will not succeed unless you are affiliated
>> with
>> the University of Michigan.
>>
>> You can read more about Favorites at
>> https://www.lib.umich.edu/my-account/favorites/faq , and if you want to
>> try
>> it out, set up a Friend account -- instructions are provided by our campus
>> IT group at http://www.itcs.umich.edu/itcsdocs/s4316/
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Varnum
>> Senior Program Manager for Discovery, Delivery, and Learning Analytics
>> Library Information Technology | University of Michigan Library
>> [log in to unmask] | @varnum | 734-615-3287
>> http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Valerie Forrestal <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > 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
>> > Phone: 718.982.4023
>> > [log in to unmask]
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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