Ken, what has been the usage of this?
We've been actively getting out of the "bookbag" business, encouraging our people to use RefWorks or EndNote or other citation management software to save individual article and book level data. We don't really offer anything for journals or databases. We've been burned in the past with data loss when a product goes down or with migrating large quantities of data from one product or the other.
So, I'm curious about how much it is used, and what has been the feedback from your users? I know I'd get a lot of pushback if I suggested it, so I'd also be interested in what, if any, problems you've run into.
Bennett
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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/
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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
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> ~val
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> Valerie Forrestal
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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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