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We have focused on pulling in people's personal stuff from our disparate systems, so they don't have to know which catalog a book was checked out from, or even if it checked out from one of our libraries or via ILL. So far the response has been favorable - particularly the option to renew all books at one time. We have talked about adding in the ability to "favorite" e-resources through out the website and then manage their favorites in MyLibrary. But I'm not sure how much that would be used. Bennett Bennett Claire Ponsford Digital Services Librarian Texas AM University Libraries bennett [log in to unmask] -------- Original message -------- From: Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> Date: 03/23/2016 1:56 PM (GMT-06:00) To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites 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