A Hipper HIP

Dave Pattern, Library Systems ManagerUniversity of Huddersfield

d.c.pattern@hud.ac.uk

Preamble

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Contents• Spellchecker• xISBN• Google Book Search• ticTOCs• LibraryThing• …and more

Spell checker

• All OPAC keyword searches were monitored over a six month period

• Approx 23% of searches gave zero results– 74 people entered “renew” as a

keyword(!)

• Users expect suggestions and prompts, not “dead end” pages

Spell checker

Ratings and comments

Other editions

• Uses web services provided by OCLC and LibraryThing to locate other editions and related works within local holdings– www.oclc.org/research/projects/xisbn/– www.librarything.com/api

Other editions

Email alerts

RSS feeds

RSS feeds

RSS feeds

Google Book Search

Virtual shelf browser

LibraryThing

ticTOCs

Item usage

Thank you!

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