We implemented personalization on our website in 2012. An early presentation on that project can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/ianchan/building-a-usercentric-website-by-integrating-course-enrollment-data.
A more complete write-up is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/LHT-07-2013-0096. Here’s a more recent screenshot of the home page after user login. https://www.diigo.com/item/image/qxh8/v7ng?size=o. We’re largely a commuter campus and close to 70% of traffic is from off-campus. Also, student access is quite high in the evenings and on weekends, much of it from off-campus. All of that off-campus traffic requires login to access our e-resources. So we ask users to consider logging-in first since they will have to later in the research process. Our next steps are to integrate data from Alma/Primo/ILLiad (check-outs/fines/ILL requests/citation lists/saved queries) and tie it all together with Shibboleth. Somewhat related: I’m at a mobile app conference and there’s a lot of interest in personas and personalization. Best regards, Ian Ian Chan Systems Coordinator University Library California State University San Marcos ic...@csusm.edu | 760-750-4385 <tel:7607504385> | biblio.csusm.edu <http://biblio.csusm.edu/> | Skype: ian.t.chan <callto:ian.t.chan> On 3/23/16, 12:18 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Bennett Ponsford" <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU on behalf of bcponsf...@library.tamu.edu> wrote: >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 ponsf...@tamu.edu > > > >-------- Original message -------- >From: Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> >Date: 03/23/2016 1:56 PM (GMT-06:00) >To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU >Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites > >On Mar 23, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Mark Weiler <mwei...@wlu.ca> 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
