Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Bennett Ponsford]

Thanks muchly.  bcp

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Bennett Claire Ponsford  |  Digital Services Librarian
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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken 
Varnum
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 3:20 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

I don't have much context for whether these stats show amazingly high usage, or 
pathetically low But here are summary data:

So far this year (since 1/1/2016), 2111 distinct users added at least one thing 
to their Favorites list. 378 distinct users have added a tag to one or more 
items.

Since the start of the current system (three years ago, roughly March 1, 2013), 
about 15,000 users have saved at least one favorite item; just over
3000 users have added at least one tag to one item.

We migrated data in from our previous system, bringing total usage (since 
roughly 2010) to 33,700 users with at least one item in their favorites 
account; 14,000 with at least one tag on one item.



--
Ken Varnum
Senior Program Manager for Discovery, Delivery, and Learning Analytics Library 
Information Technology | University of Michigan Library var...@umich.edu | 
@varnum | 734-615-3287 http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum

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 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
>
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Bennett Claire Ponsford  |  Digital Services Librarian 
> bennett.ponsf...@tamu.edu
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Ken Varnum
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 3:43 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites
>
> 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 
> var...@umich.edu | @varnum | 734-615-3287 
> http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Valerie Forrestal < 
> valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu> 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 Fo

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Ken Varnum]

I don't have much context for whether these stats show amazingly high
usage, or pathetically low But here are summary data:

So far this year (since 1/1/2016), 2111 distinct users added at least one
thing to their Favorites list. 378 distinct users have added a tag to one
or more items.

Since the start of the current system (three years ago, roughly March 1,
2013), about 15,000 users have saved at least one favorite item; just over
3000 users have added at least one tag to one item.

We migrated data in from our previous system, bringing total usage (since
roughly 2010) to 33,700 users with at least one item in their favorites
account; 14,000 with at least one tag on one item.



--
Ken Varnum
Senior Program Manager for Discovery, Delivery, and Learning Analytics
Library Information Technology | University of Michigan Library
var...@umich.edu | @varnum | 734-615-3287
http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum

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 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
>
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Bennett Claire Ponsford  |  Digital Services Librarian
> bennett.ponsf...@tamu.edu
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Ken Varnum
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 3:43 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites
>
> 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
> var...@umich.edu | @varnum | 734-615-3287
> http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Valerie Forrestal <
> valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu> 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
> > valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu
> >
> >
> > On 3/23/2016 2:55 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> >
> >> On Mar 23, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Mark Weiler <mwei...@wlu.ca> wrote:
> &

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Bennett Ponsford]

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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Bennett Claire Ponsford  |  Digital Services Librarian
bennett.ponsf...@tamu.edu
 


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken 
Varnum
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 3:43 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

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 var...@umich.edu | 
@varnum | 734-615-3287 http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Valerie Forrestal < 
valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu> 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
> valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu
>
>
> On 3/23/2016 2:55 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>
>> 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 

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Ken Varnum]

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
var...@umich.edu | @varnum | 734-615-3287
http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Charlie Morris 
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  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
>> var...@umich.edu | @varnum | 734-615-3287
>> http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Valerie Forrestal <
>> valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu> 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
>> > valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu
>> >
>> >
>> > On 3/23/2016 2:55 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mar 23, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Mark Weiler  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
>> >> 

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Ken Varnum]

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
var...@umich.edu | @varnum | 734-615-3287
http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Valerie Forrestal <
valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu> 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
> valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu
>
>
> On 3/23/2016 2:55 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>
>> On Mar 23, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Mark Weiler  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 

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Ian Chan]

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  | biblio.csusm.edu 
<http://biblio.csusm.edu/> | Skype: 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,
>  electron

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Bennett Ponsford]

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 

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Valerie Forrestal]

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
valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu

On 3/23/2016 2:55 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

On Mar 23, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Mark Weiler  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.

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[William Denton]

On 23 March 2016, Cornel Darden Jr. wrote:


Seems like overkill, why a login to access the library's website?


Indeed, but once you're logged in, though, to access some subscription resource, 
there's a lot the system could show you.


At the university where I work we don't do any customization on the library's 
web site, but we do provide a feed of personalized links into the course 
management system.  Students have to log in to get into Moodle, and then when 
they're looking at a course page Moodle hands over the course code to us, and we 
send back a box with:


- basic catalogue search
- links to relevant subject guides
- links to most relevant eresources
- links to course guide (if there is one)
- links to reserves (if there are some)
- link to subject librarian

The guides (LibGuides) are all tagged to match faculties and programs: the 
Biology guide is tagged sc/biol, so we know it's relevant to all course in the 
SC(ience) faculty and BIOL(ogy) program.  Librarians are tagged similarly in a 
basic spreadsheet.


We inject this into the course management system and the student portal, but 
don't make use of these things on our own site, even though students end up 
logging in a lot to get to journals and databases.  We should!


Bill
--
William Denton ↔  Toronto, Canada ↔  https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Eric Lease Morgan]

On Mar 23, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Mark Weiler  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

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Jason Bengtson]

Often these kinds of things are optional . . . you sign in for the benefit
and convenience of capturing your settings, but it's not required for use
of the site generally. Kind of like MyNCBI and PubMed.

Best regards,

*Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA*
Assistant Director, IT Services
K-State Libraries
414 Hale Library
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-7450
jbengt...@ksu.edu
www.jasonbengtson.com

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Cornel Darden Jr.  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Seems like overkill, why a login to access the library's website?
>
> Cornel Darden Jr.
> Chief Information Officer
> Casanova Information Services, LLC
> Office Phone: (779) 205-3105
> Mobile Phone: (708) 705-2945
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Mar 23, 2016, at 12:38 PM, Ian Walls 
> wrote:
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> >
> > Oddly enough, we're looking at this kind of thing right now.  I also
> just got a message from my ILL Librarian that she saw a great conference
> presentation on this kinda thing by Scott Bertagnole of Brigham Young
> University.
> >
> > From our perspective, the trick is authentication.  We want to at least
> use Common Credentials with our University authentication system, rather
> than Yet Another Account to Remember (YAAR!), if not Single Sign-on, but we
> also need to support the other 4 colleges in our consortium, as well as
> community borrowers. Getting course data about students is also tricky,
> since we need to collaborate with other units on campus to get permission
> to sanely and securely access this data from the registrar.
> >
> > I'm envisioning three levels of integration:
> >
> > 1. Catalog + ILL to see what materials you have
> > 2. Course reserves and supporting materials
> > 3. Miscellaneous/experimental integrations with other services
> >
> > Hope this is useful; I'd love to keep this conversation going, whether
> on list or off.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > -Ian
> >
> >> On 03/23/2016 01:26 PM, Mark Weiler 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?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Mark Weiler, MLIS, PhD
> >> Web & User Experience Librarian | Psychology Librarian
> >> Laurier Library
> >> Office: Waterloo campus Library, room 104
> >> 519.884.0710 x4296
> >> mwei...@wlu.ca
> >>
> >>  [cid:image001.png@01CF7E4C.6BD81010]
> >> WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
> >> 75 University Ave. W.
> >> Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
> >>
> >> https://library.wlu.ca
> >>
> >>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Bennett Ponsford]

In our case, it's not the website as a whole - just their personal stuff.

Bennett

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
Bennett Claire Ponsford  |  Digital Services Librarian
University Libraries | Texas A University
5000 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843-5000

979.845.0877  |  bennett.ponsf...@tamu.edu
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
http://library.tamu.edu


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cornel 
Darden Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 1:21 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

Hello,

Seems like overkill, why a login to access the library's website?

Cornel Darden Jr. 
Chief Information Officer
Casanova Information Services, LLC
Office Phone: (779) 205-3105
Mobile Phone: (708) 705-2945

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 23, 2016, at 12:38 PM, Ian Walls <iwa...@library.umass.edu> wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> 
> Oddly enough, we're looking at this kind of thing right now.  I also just got 
> a message from my ILL Librarian that she saw a great conference presentation 
> on this kinda thing by Scott Bertagnole of Brigham Young University.
> 
> From our perspective, the trick is authentication.  We want to at least use 
> Common Credentials with our University authentication system, rather than Yet 
> Another Account to Remember (YAAR!), if not Single Sign-on, but we also need 
> to support the other 4 colleges in our consortium, as well as community 
> borrowers. Getting course data about students is also tricky, since we need 
> to collaborate with other units on campus to get permission to sanely and 
> securely access this data from the registrar.
> 
> I'm envisioning three levels of integration:
> 
> 1. Catalog + ILL to see what materials you have 2. Course reserves and 
> supporting materials 3. Miscellaneous/experimental integrations with 
> other services
> 
> Hope this is useful; I'd love to keep this conversation going, whether on 
> list or off.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> -Ian
> 
>> On 03/23/2016 01:26 PM, Mark Weiler 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?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mark Weiler, MLIS, PhD
>> Web & User Experience Librarian | Psychology Librarian Laurier 
>> Library
>> Office: Waterloo campus Library, room 104
>> 519.884.0710 x4296
>> mwei...@wlu.ca<mailto:mwei...@wlu.ca>
>> 
>>  [cid:image001.png@01CF7E4C.6BD81010]
>> WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
>> 75 University Ave. W.
>> Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
>> 
>> https://library.wlu.ca<https://library.wlu.ca/>
>> 
>> 

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Cornel Darden Jr.]

Hello,

Seems like overkill, why a login to access the library's website?

Cornel Darden Jr. 
Chief Information Officer
Casanova Information Services, LLC 
Office Phone: (779) 205-3105
Mobile Phone: (708) 705-2945

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 23, 2016, at 12:38 PM, Ian Walls  wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> 
> Oddly enough, we're looking at this kind of thing right now.  I also just got 
> a message from my ILL Librarian that she saw a great conference presentation 
> on this kinda thing by Scott Bertagnole of Brigham Young University.
> 
> From our perspective, the trick is authentication.  We want to at least use 
> Common Credentials with our University authentication system, rather than Yet 
> Another Account to Remember (YAAR!), if not Single Sign-on, but we also need 
> to support the other 4 colleges in our consortium, as well as community 
> borrowers. Getting course data about students is also tricky, since we need 
> to collaborate with other units on campus to get permission to sanely and 
> securely access this data from the registrar.
> 
> I'm envisioning three levels of integration:
> 
> 1. Catalog + ILL to see what materials you have
> 2. Course reserves and supporting materials
> 3. Miscellaneous/experimental integrations with other services
> 
> Hope this is useful; I'd love to keep this conversation going, whether on 
> list or off.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> -Ian
> 
>> On 03/23/2016 01:26 PM, Mark Weiler 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?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mark Weiler, MLIS, PhD
>> Web & User Experience Librarian | Psychology Librarian
>> Laurier Library
>> Office: Waterloo campus Library, room 104
>> 519.884.0710 x4296
>> mwei...@wlu.ca
>> 
>>  [cid:image001.png@01CF7E4C.6BD81010]
>> WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
>> 75 University Ave. W.
>> Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
>> 
>> https://library.wlu.ca
>> 
>> 

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Bennett Ponsford]

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 be very interested in 
what other libraries are doing.

Bennett

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
Bennett Claire Ponsford  |  Digital Services Librarian
University Libraries | Texas A University
5000 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843-5000

979.845.0877  |  bennett.ponsf...@tamu.edu

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
http://library.tamu.edu
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ian 
Walls
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 12:38 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

Mark,


Oddly enough, we're looking at this kind of thing right now.  I also just got a 
message from my ILL Librarian that she saw a great conference presentation on 
this kinda thing by Scott Bertagnole of Brigham Young University.

 From our perspective, the trick is authentication.  We want to at least use 
Common Credentials with our University authentication system, rather than Yet 
Another Account to Remember (YAAR!), if not Single Sign-on, but we also need to 
support the other 4 colleges in our consortium, as well as community borrowers. 
Getting course data about students is also tricky, since we need to collaborate 
with other units on campus to get permission to sanely and securely access this 
data from the registrar.

I'm envisioning three levels of integration:

1. Catalog + ILL to see what materials you have 2. Course reserves and 
supporting materials 3. Miscellaneous/experimental integrations with other 
services

Hope this is useful; I'd love to keep this conversation going, whether on list 
or off.

Cheers,


-Ian

On 03/23/2016 01:26 PM, Mark Weiler 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?
>
>
>
> Mark Weiler, MLIS, PhD
> Web & User Experience Librarian | Psychology Librarian Laurier Library
> Office: Waterloo campus Library, room 104
> 519.884.0710 x4296
> mwei...@wlu.ca<mailto:mwei...@wlu.ca>
>
>   [cid:image001.png@01CF7E4C.6BD81010]
> WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
> 75 University Ave. W.
> Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
>
> https://library.wlu.ca<https://library.wlu.ca/>
>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Ian Walls]

Mark,


Oddly enough, we're looking at this kind of thing right now.  I also 
just got a message from my ILL Librarian that she saw a great conference 
presentation on this kinda thing by Scott Bertagnole of Brigham Young 
University.


From our perspective, the trick is authentication.  We want to at least 
use Common Credentials with our University authentication system, rather 
than Yet Another Account to Remember (YAAR!), if not Single Sign-on, but 
we also need to support the other 4 colleges in our consortium, as well 
as community borrowers. Getting course data about students is also 
tricky, since we need to collaborate with other units on campus to get 
permission to sanely and securely access this data from the registrar.


I'm envisioning three levels of integration:

1. Catalog + ILL to see what materials you have
2. Course reserves and supporting materials
3. Miscellaneous/experimental integrations with other services

Hope this is useful; I'd love to keep this conversation going, whether 
on list or off.


Cheers,


-Ian

On 03/23/2016 01:26 PM, Mark Weiler 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?



Mark Weiler, MLIS, PhD
Web & User Experience Librarian | Psychology Librarian
Laurier Library
Office: Waterloo campus Library, room 104
519.884.0710 x4296
mwei...@wlu.ca

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WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
75 University Ave. W.
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5

https://library.wlu.ca

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Jason Bengtson]

I created an experimental web app to move in this direction when I was at
the TMC Library, although we didn't implement it. It was a modest start (it
kept track of links that had been used and offered them back up to the
user, with an algorithm built in to try and avoid the "click here" naming
problem). I decided to use web storage instead of an account model, since I
think people get tired of creating accounts . . . although if the account
could be tied into a single sign on solution it would probably be okay (due
to the nature of the TMC library we didn't have such a solution in place).
I presented on the topic at SCC/MLA last year and there was a lot of
interest. Eventually I'd like to allow people to "edit" the look of web
pages on the site and save their state.

Best regards,

*Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA*
Assistant Director, IT Services
K-State Libraries
414 Hale Library
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-7450
jbengt...@ksu.edu
www.jasonbengtson.com

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Mark Weiler  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?
>
>
>
> Mark Weiler, MLIS, PhD
> Web & User Experience Librarian | Psychology Librarian
> Laurier Library
> Office: Waterloo campus Library, room 104
> 519.884.0710 x4296
> mwei...@wlu.ca
>
>  [cid:image001.png@01CF7E4C.6BD81010]
> WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
> 75 University Ave. W.
> Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
>
> https://library.wlu.ca
>
>

[CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

[Mark Weiler]

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?



Mark Weiler, MLIS, PhD
Web & User Experience Librarian | Psychology Librarian
Laurier Library
Office: Waterloo campus Library, room 104
519.884.0710 x4296
mwei...@wlu.ca

 [cid:image001.png@01CF7E4C.6BD81010]
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
75 University Ave. W.
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5

https://library.wlu.ca