Mosaic Wolverhampton

Library & Service Perspective The University of Huddersfield Experience Dave Pattern Library Systems Manager University of Huddersfield, UK [email_address]

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University of Huddersfield Library
Medium sized UK University
20,000 students and 2,000 staff
Library holds over 240,000 books
Current LMS/ILS Horizon installed in 1996
over 3 million borrowing (“circ”) transactions stored in the DB

library catalogue

General unhappiness with vendor product
“In-house” enhancements to the existing OPAC…
user suggestions from surveys
“Web 2.0” inspired features
borrowing good ideas from other web sites
new features launched with no/low publicity
“perpetual beta”
background summer 2005

suggestions based on circ data “people who borrowed this…”

borrowing profile average loans per month average number of book loans per month

feature usage “people who borrowed this…” average number of clicks per month on “people who borrowed this” suggestions

getting personal! suggestions for what to borrow next

building better new book lists course specific RSS feeds

the impact

the impact on borrowing range of stock borrowed per year number of unique titles (bib#) borrowed per calendar year (2009 figure is predicted) borrowing suggestions added to catalogue at start of 2006

the impact on borrowing average number of books borrowed average number of books borrowed per active borrower per calendar year (2009 predicted)

keyword cloud

catalogue keyword searches guided searches

usage data for staff

usage data for staff loans per academic school

usage data for staff borrowing profile

open data

http://library.hud.ac.uk/usagedata/
prompted by the JISC Tile Project
aggregated usage data for 2 million circulation transactions, covering around 80,000 book titles
recommendation data for over 37,000 titles
simple XML format
Open Data Commons / CC0 licence
library usage data release “if you love something, set it free…”

Data released on 12th Dec 2008…
… 2 days later, Patrick Murray-John at University of Mary Washington converted the data into a semantic version (RDF)
Patrick’s blog post at http://bit.ly/noJD
Talis podcast at http://bit.ly/z6yjF
library usage data release “if you love something, set it free…”

library usage data BA (Hons) Multimedia Design

non-usage

Non/Low-usage Project 2005 onwards

summary

final thoughts…
Serendipity is helping change borrowing habits
Analysis of usage data allows greater insights in how our services are used (or not used!)
What benefits can be derived if we were all sharing our data?

Mosaic Wolverhampton

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