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My short (~10min) presentation at ILI2009.
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I Know What You Borrowed Last SummerExploiting Usage Data in an Academic Library
Dave Pattern
Library Systems Manager
University of Huddersfield, UK
www.daveyp.com
Preamble
• More information about this presentation…– daveyp.com/ili2009/
• Please remix and reuse these slides!– creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
• Have you remembered to switch your phone on?– please feel free take photos, record audio, live blog,
tweet (@daveyp, #ili2009), etc
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
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
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number of unique titles (bib#) borrowed per calendar year (2009 figure is predicted)
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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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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Catalogue keyword searcheskeyword cloud eye candy…
Catalogue keyword searchesguided searches
• 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 converts the data to 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 release“if you love something, set it free…”
JISC MOSAIC Projecthttp://bit.ly/jiscmosaic
JISC MOSAIC Projectdeveloper competition
JISC MOSAIC Projectdeveloper competition
JISC MOSAIC Projectdeveloper competition
In summary…
• At Huddersfield, exploited usage data is helping to change borrowing habits
• Are libraries prepared to let go of their data?
• “Raw data now!” – Sir Tim Berners-Lee– TED speech, March 2009 (http://bit.ly/q9sR)
Final recommendations…
• Capture as much usage data as you can …even if you don’t have a use for it now!
• Whenever possible, release aggregated or anonymised versions of the data– try to use a Creative Commons Zero or Open Data
Commons licence to encourage re-use– don’t be a “data hugger”!
