Discovering the library collectionslibrary traditions in the light of the weband its users
Lukas KosterLibrary of the University of AmsterdamThe [email protected]
Rosemie [email protected]
From Amsterdam to Brussels
Theory
Practice
Objective of this talkConfrontation between the library traditions and the webin the light of "meeting new user expectations"
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What are user expectations?
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Two traditions: the library and the web
Catalog records versus enriched dataTables of content, abstracts, ratings, tags
Recommendations
OPAC versus search engines and popular sitesGoogle
Amazon
Bibliographic reference versus full content and delivery online
Library vocabulary versus familiar concepts
2.0 unwritten rulesGuide meAttract meFind meReward me
Guide me
Advanced! Not simple!
No FRBR
No relevance ranking
FRBR
Relevance ranking
So many databases to search
Guiding? Fail!
One index, different databases
Synonymstwo search actions
ORcombined searches
Synonyms=
Query Expansion
attract me
MARC! Catalogue card!
find me
where is the library?
come to us
we come to you
republishing the library data
www.bibliotheek.be
library holding widget on other websites
Web access any time anywhere
Location awareness
Mobile! Literally: go where your users are
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reward me
System recommendations
Recommendationsfrom social networks
Recommendationsfrom social networks
my opinon?
25.000 getagde titels2,5% van alle titels
can LIBRARIES meet new user expectations?
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