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Library & Service PerspectiveThe University of Huddersfield Experience
Dave Pattern
Library Systems Manager
University of Huddersfield, UK
preamble
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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 cataloguelibrary 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”
backgroundsummer 2005
suggestions based on circ data“people who borrowed this…”
suggestions based on circ data“people who borrowed this…”
borrowing profileaverage loans per month
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average number of book loans per month
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average number of clicks per month on “people who borrowed this” suggestions
feature usage“people who borrowed this…”
getting personal!suggestions for what to borrow next
building better new book listscourse specific RSS feeds
building better new book listscourse specific RSS feeds
the impactthe impact
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number of unique titles (bib#) borrowed per calendar year (2009 figure is predicted)
the impact on borrowingrange of stock borrowed per year
borrowing suggestions added to catalogue at start of 2006
average number of books borrowed per active borrower per calendar year (2009 predicted)
the impact on borrowingaverage number of books borrowed
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keyword cloud
catalogue keyword searchesguided searches
catalogue keyword searchesguided searches
catalogue keyword searchesguided searches
catalogue keyword searchesguided searches
usage data for staff
usage data for staffloans per academic school
usage data for staffloans per academic school
usage data for staffborrowing profile
open dataopen 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 dataBA (Hons) Multimedia Design
non-usagenon-usage
Non/Low-usage Project2005 onwards
Non/Low-usage Project2005 onwards
summarysummary
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?