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On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Bennett Ponsford <
bcponsf...@library.tamu.edu> wrote:
> Ken, what has been the usage of this?
>
> We've been activ
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 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
In our case, it's not the website as a whole - just their personal stuff.
Bennett
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We have done this - we call it MyLibrary - for our two catalogs, two ILLiad
implementations, and course reserves. We wanted to add in room reservations,
but the vendor we use does not include what rooms you have checked out in their
API.
We're now looking at what else to add, so I would also
On the other hand, I'm looking for best practices that I call point librarians
to. And for that, having support from ALA/LITA is pretty much essential. I
can quote Jared Spool or Jakob Nielsen till I'm blue in the face and no one
will listen, but if I can say these guidelines come from ALA
