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Presented by Kara Jones and Kate Robinson at the LWW7 Conferences, Molyvos, Greece, 15 September 2007.TRANSCRIPT
The rise of recommendation and review:A place in online library environments?
Libraries Without Walls – LWW714 - 18 September 2007
Delphinia Hotel, Molyvos, Aegean Island of Lesvos, Greece
Kara Jones Kate RobinsonResearch Publications Librarian Head of Reader Services
Library & Learning CentreUniversity of Bath, UK.
Review and Recommendation
• User generated content
• Social
• Community focused
• Social technologies
• Familiar processes
Library Catalogue
• Authoritative
• No risk
• Quality controlled/assured
• Stand-alone/static
• Top-down
Bringing the two together
User generated content
reviews
recommendations
comments
+the library catalogue?
Academic perspective?
• How can an undergraduate possibly constructively comment on MY reading list?
Librarian perspective?
• What is the future for the library catalogue if we don't do this?
Library user perspective?
• How are you going to encourage me to add my reviews?
What have we done at Bath?
• Experimented on a ‘safe’ collection
– ‘Around the World in 80+ Books’
– Recommended by international students and staff as a ‘taster’ of their home countries
– Seeded conversation by encouraging international students to visit the collection site
Moderated reviews
• Attached a wiki space page to each catalogue record to record comments
• Login to comment, moderation in place
• Ratings function to be added
• Use this ‘safe’ environment as a small scale pilot project
• See what happens!
Questions?
Kate RobinsonHead of Reader ServicesLibrary & Learning CentreUniversity of BathEm: [email protected]
Kara JonesResearch Publications LibrarianLibrary & Learning CentreUniversity of BathEm: [email protected]
15 September 2007