Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
We're interested in implementing a virtual browse feature as well, so I was glad to find this post. Since we have a shared catalog and the feature is currently under discussion by our partner institutions, we're also considering implementing it for our installation of Summon first. I've seen U of Huddersfield, but am wondering if there are additional examples? Thanks, Darylyne ** Darylyne Provost Assistant Director for Systems, Web, Emerging Technologies Colby College 207.859.5117 dprov...@colby.edu On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Gerritsma, Wouter wouter.gerrit...@wur.nl wrote: Beautiful to see that the meticulously recorded book height is put into use. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Harper, Cynthia Sent: dinsdag 27 januari 2015 21:27 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse? What testimony to what a difference presentation can make! So much better than basically the same functionality, but in a text list, as shown in our old III Webpac. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cole Hudson Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 9:57 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse? Hi Jenn, Just to add one example more to the mix, we've built a shelf browser based on Harvard's Stackview/Stacklife project--adding to it a z39.50 connector and organizing results by call number. This search works across all of holdings, regardless of the books' locations. (Click the link, then under the Books and Media box, click See on Shelf to look at our shelf browser.) http://library.wayne.edu/quicksearch/#q=the%20hobbit Also, our code is on Github: https://github.com/WSULib/SVCatConnector Cole
Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
For those investigating a shelf browse (and for those that have implemented one), I have a few questions: Where is the feature demand originating? Staff? Faculty? Students? Grad students? Undergrad students? (Not to exclude publics or special libraries, but this seems to be an academic catalog feature, when it shows up.) What is the level of familiarity with library/library services/library systems for those that request this feature? Is implementing shelf browse an attempt to work around some other catalog deficiency (e.g. weak subject cataloging)? Does the corpus have the cataloging data to support such a feature? (A lot of ebook packages do not have call numbers, for example.) What¹s the percentage? Is that reasonable? How do you plan on tracking use of the feature? What would you consider to be a success rate? 20% of sessions? 5%? 1%? At what point do you sunset the feature? Expand upon it? How long will the feature take to implement? How many staff will be involved? What is the ROI? Will all of your users understand the visual implementation on the page? How do you plan on testing it? Does the shelf metaphor still hold for your users? How do you know? -Sean On 1/28/15, 8:30 AM, Darylyne Provost dprov...@colby.edu wrote: We're interested in implementing a virtual browse feature as well, so I was glad to find this post. Since we have a shared catalog and the feature is currently under discussion by our partner institutions, we're also considering implementing it for our installation of Summon first. I've seen U of Huddersfield, but am wondering if there are additional examples? Thanks, Darylyne ** Darylyne Provost Assistant Director for Systems, Web, Emerging Technologies Colby College 207.859.5117 dprov...@colby.edu On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Gerritsma, Wouter wouter.gerrit...@wur.nl wrote: Beautiful to see that the meticulously recorded book height is put into use. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Harper, Cynthia Sent: dinsdag 27 januari 2015 21:27 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse? What testimony to what a difference presentation can make! So much better than basically the same functionality, but in a text list, as shown in our old III Webpac. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cole Hudson Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 9:57 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse? Hi Jenn, Just to add one example more to the mix, we've built a shelf browser based on Harvard's Stackview/Stacklife project--adding to it a z39.50 connector and organizing results by call number. This search works across all of holdings, regardless of the books' locations. (Click the link, then under the Books and Media box, click See on Shelf to look at our shelf browser.) http://library.wayne.edu/quicksearch/#q=the%20hobbit Also, our code is on Github: https://github.com/WSULib/SVCatConnector Cole
Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
+1 to Sean's questions. I've considered implementing a shelf browse system myself, but I am wary. It's a huge amount of work, and I have no idea who it will benefit or how much. It's one of those things that certainly seems cool to me, but unfortunately I am not the target audience of our website (but it would be much easier if I were). Any usage stats would be greatly appreciated. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Sean Hannan Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:29 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse? For those investigating a shelf browse (and for those that have implemented one), I have a few questions: Where is the feature demand originating? Staff? Faculty? Students? Grad students? Undergrad students? (Not to exclude publics or special libraries, but this seems to be an academic catalog feature, when it shows up.) What is the level of familiarity with library/library services/library systems for those that request this feature? Is implementing shelf browse an attempt to work around some other catalog deficiency (e.g. weak subject cataloging)? Does the corpus have the cataloging data to support such a feature? (A lot of ebook packages do not have call numbers, for example.) What零 the percentage? Is that reasonable? How do you plan on tracking use of the feature? What would you consider to be a success rate? 20% of sessions? 5%? 1%? At what point do you sunset the feature? Expand upon it? How long will the feature take to implement? How many staff will be involved? What is the ROI? Will all of your users understand the visual implementation on the page? How do you plan on testing it? Does the shelf metaphor still hold for your users? How do you know? -Sean On 1/28/15, 8:30 AM, Darylyne Provost dprov...@colby.edu wrote: We're interested in implementing a virtual browse feature as well, so I was glad to find this post. Since we have a shared catalog and the feature is currently under discussion by our partner institutions, we're also considering implementing it for our installation of Summon first. I've seen U of Huddersfield, but am wondering if there are additional examples? Thanks, Darylyne ** Darylyne Provost Assistant Director for Systems, Web, Emerging Technologies Colby College 207.859.5117 dprov...@colby.edu On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Gerritsma, Wouter wouter.gerrit...@wur.nl wrote: Beautiful to see that the meticulously recorded book height is put into use. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Harper, Cynthia Sent: dinsdag 27 januari 2015 21:27 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse? What testimony to what a difference presentation can make! So much better than basically the same functionality, but in a text list, as shown in our old III Webpac. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cole Hudson Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 9:57 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse? Hi Jenn, Just to add one example more to the mix, we've built a shelf browser based on Harvard's Stackview/Stacklife project--adding to it a z39.50 connector and organizing results by call number. This search works across all of holdings, regardless of the books' locations. (Click the link, then under the Books and Media box, click See on Shelf to look at our shelf browser.) http://library.wayne.edu/quicksearch/#q=the%20hobbit Also, our code is on Github: https://github.com/WSULib/SVCatConnector Cole
Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
Thanks, everyone, for the links to interesting implementations. It's definitely given me some inspiration as we start to think about this possibility. I'll give my 2 cents (Canadian, that's $0.016 US today, sorry!) on a few of Sean's questions below - the ones we've actually given any thought to yet. We're at the 'hey, this is probably something we should look into' phase right now, so naturally we haven't covered all of these things. On 2015-01-28 9:29 AM, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote: Where is the feature demand originating? Staff? Faculty? Students? Grad students? Undergrad students? (Not to exclude publics or special libraries, but this seems to be an academic catalog feature, when it shows up.) This has come up for us as we start (as other academic libraries are) to think about remimagined libraries of the future and the possibility of a smaller on-site collection with remote or on-site but not browsable storage comes up for consideration, and what that would mean for faculty (especially) who find value in browsing shelves. We're not committed to any of this yet - right now it's just a thought experiment of what it would mean. What is the level of familiarity with library/library services/library systems for those that request this feature? I try very hard to encourage my tech folks not to worry about that. If it's a documented user need or helps us strategically in some other way then we need to have it on the table of things we work on. I can communicate how hard it will be as part of the priorities discussion, and if it's a priority, it's a priority, and we move forward. I encourage and reward 'cool, let's work on that and solve an interesting problem' over 'is this really necessary, do those folks asking us know what we're talking about?' My apologies if I've read too much into your question, though! Is implementing shelf browse an attempt to work around some other catalog deficiency (e.g. weak subject cataloging)? Does the corpus have the cataloging data to support such a feature? (A lot of ebook packages do not have call numbers, for example.) What¹s the percentage? Is that reasonable? I'm actually wondering if there are better ways to do thematic browsing than call number, but I know most (all?) do implement this as a literal shelf/call # browse. But there are probably other possibilities that could meet the serendipity need that could be worth exploring. How do you plan on tracking use of the feature? What would you consider to be a success rate? 20% of sessions? 5%? 1%? At what point do you sunset the feature? Expand upon it? I struggle with questions like this because I think they're unfair - frankly, our organizations don't typically ask questions like this about e.g. an advanced search or title browse or journal a-z list, so asking it for THIS feature puts a standard up that we don't use for other things. Now, I'm all about assessment and collecting lots of data and ongoing review, but we work on that for *everything*. Sure, we'll put some thought into this but it's very unlikely something we decide is a priority is going to get a sunset clause put into it at the beginning when we have all sorts of legacy stuff that's limping along but of less utility. We always look at our offerings to decide what stays and what goes, and we'd do that for this too. But it's not in the culture of our organization to set strict metrics like this before implementation, and frankly I think we shouldn't do that. I want the flexibility going forward to shift priorities as the landscape changes. For better or for worse, library services are more than math problems. :-) Jenn --- Jenn Riley Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives | Vice Doyenne, Initiatives numériques McGill University Library | Bibliothèque Université McGill 3459 McTavish Street | 3459, rue McTavish Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0C9 | Montréal (QC) Canada H3A 0C9 (514) 398-3642 jenn.ri...@mcgill.ca
Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
What testimony to what a difference presentation can make! So much better than basically the same functionality, but in a text list, as shown in our old III Webpac. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cole Hudson Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 9:57 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse? Hi Jenn, Just to add one example more to the mix, we've built a shelf browser based on Harvard's Stackview/Stacklife project--adding to it a z39.50 connector and organizing results by call number. This search works across all of holdings, regardless of the books' locations. (Click the link, then under the Books and Media box, click See on Shelf to look at our shelf browser.) http://library.wayne.edu/quicksearch/#q=the%20hobbit Also, our code is on Github: https://github.com/WSULib/SVCatConnector Cole
Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
Beautiful to see that the meticulously recorded book height is put into use. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Harper, Cynthia Sent: dinsdag 27 januari 2015 21:27 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse? What testimony to what a difference presentation can make! So much better than basically the same functionality, but in a text list, as shown in our old III Webpac. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cole Hudson Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 9:57 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse? Hi Jenn, Just to add one example more to the mix, we've built a shelf browser based on Harvard's Stackview/Stacklife project--adding to it a z39.50 connector and organizing results by call number. This search works across all of holdings, regardless of the books' locations. (Click the link, then under the Books and Media box, click See on Shelf to look at our shelf browser.) http://library.wayne.edu/quicksearch/#q=the%20hobbit Also, our code is on Github: https://github.com/WSULib/SVCatConnector Cole
Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
Hi Jenn, Just to add one example more to the mix, we've built a shelf browser based on Harvard's Stackview/Stacklife project--adding to it a z39.50 connector and organizing results by call number. This search works across all of holdings, regardless of the books' locations. (Click the link, then under the Books and Media box, click See on Shelf to look at our shelf browser.) http://library.wayne.edu/quicksearch/#q=the%20hobbit Also, our code is on Github: https://github.com/WSULib/SVCatConnector Cole
Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
Not state of the art anymore, but we still use a cover-based browse at NCSU: http://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/record/NCSU1855526 http://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/browse?callNumber=SD418.3+.A53+C26+2005format=covers We have work underway to add a horizontal cover-based widget to the full record to allow browsing directly there a la Amazon recommendations. We are actually planning to offer both call number browse and a subject-based browse. -emily Date:Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:23:11 -0700 From:todd.d.robb...@gmail.com todd.d.robb...@gmail.com Subject: Re: state of the art in virtual shelf browse? BYU has a neat alphabetical browser by title, subject, and call number via autocomplete: https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/browse –Tod On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Benjamin Armintor armin...@gmail.com wrote: Jenn, To pitch another example in with Tom's: CLIO at Columbia http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/9399500 Our layout is different, and (as you can see) it's collapsed by default. - Ben On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: Jenn, You can make your own conclusions about state of the art, but here is Stanford's virtual shelf browse integrated into SearchWorks: - embedded in a record view as a film strip (see the browse related items section of the page) - a full page, gallery view of related items, grouped together by call number By design, this virtual shelf browse is across Stanford's entire holdings, regardless of physical location of the books. Another implementation to look at is Harvard's Stacklife: http://stacklife.harvard.edu/ - Tom On Jan 25, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Jenn Riley wrote: At my library, we're starting to think about virtual shelf browsing options. Who's doing a really good job with this now? What organizations can I look to for state of the art implementations for inspiration? Thanks for any suggestions. Jenn --- Jenn Riley Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives | Vice Doyenne, Initiatives numériques McGill University Library | Bibliothèque Université McGill 3459 McTavish Street | 3459, rue McTavish Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0C9 | Montréal (QC) Canada H3A 0C9 (514) 398-3642 jenn.ri...@mcgill.ca -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
BYU has a neat alphabetical browser by title, subject, and call number via autocomplete: https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/browse –Tod On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Benjamin Armintor armin...@gmail.com wrote: Jenn, To pitch another example in with Tom's: CLIO at Columbia http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/9399500 Our layout is different, and (as you can see) it's collapsed by default. - Ben On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: Jenn, You can make your own conclusions about state of the art, but here is Stanford's virtual shelf browse integrated into SearchWorks: - embedded in a record view as a film strip (see the browse related items section of the page) - a full page, gallery view of related items, grouped together by call number By design, this virtual shelf browse is across Stanford's entire holdings, regardless of physical location of the books. Another implementation to look at is Harvard's Stacklife: http://stacklife.harvard.edu/ - Tom On Jan 25, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Jenn Riley wrote: At my library, we're starting to think about virtual shelf browsing options. Who's doing a really good job with this now? What organizations can I look to for state of the art implementations for inspiration? Thanks for any suggestions. Jenn --- Jenn Riley Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives | Vice Doyenne, Initiatives numériques McGill University Library | Bibliothèque Université McGill 3459 McTavish Street | 3459, rue McTavish Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0C9 | Montréal (QC) Canada H3A 0C9 (514) 398-3642 jenn.ri...@mcgill.ca -- Tod Robbins Digital Asset Manager, MLIS todrobbins.com | @todrobbins http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins
Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
Jenn, You can make your own conclusions about state of the art, but here is Stanford's virtual shelf browse integrated into SearchWorks: - embedded in a record view as a film strip (see the browse related items section of the page) - a full page, gallery view of related items, grouped together by call number By design, this virtual shelf browse is across Stanford's entire holdings, regardless of physical location of the books. Another implementation to look at is Harvard's Stacklife: http://stacklife.harvard.edu/ - Tom On Jan 25, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Jenn Riley wrote: At my library, we're starting to think about virtual shelf browsing options. Who's doing a really good job with this now? What organizations can I look to for state of the art implementations for inspiration? Thanks for any suggestions. Jenn --- Jenn Riley Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives | Vice Doyenne, Initiatives numériques McGill University Library | Bibliothèque Université McGill 3459 McTavish Street | 3459, rue McTavish Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0C9 | Montréal (QC) Canada H3A 0C9 (514) 398-3642 jenn.ri...@mcgill.ca
Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
Jenn, To pitch another example in with Tom's: CLIO at Columbia http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/9399500 Our layout is different, and (as you can see) it's collapsed by default. - Ben On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: Jenn, You can make your own conclusions about state of the art, but here is Stanford's virtual shelf browse integrated into SearchWorks: - embedded in a record view as a film strip (see the browse related items section of the page) - a full page, gallery view of related items, grouped together by call number By design, this virtual shelf browse is across Stanford's entire holdings, regardless of physical location of the books. Another implementation to look at is Harvard's Stacklife: http://stacklife.harvard.edu/ - Tom On Jan 25, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Jenn Riley wrote: At my library, we're starting to think about virtual shelf browsing options. Who's doing a really good job with this now? What organizations can I look to for state of the art implementations for inspiration? Thanks for any suggestions. Jenn --- Jenn Riley Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives | Vice Doyenne, Initiatives numériques McGill University Library | Bibliothèque Université McGill 3459 McTavish Street | 3459, rue McTavish Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0C9 | Montréal (QC) Canada H3A 0C9 (514) 398-3642 jenn.ri...@mcgill.ca
[CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
At my library, we're starting to think about virtual shelf browsing options. Who's doing a really good job with this now? What organizations can I look to for state of the art implementations for inspiration? Thanks for any suggestions. Jenn --- Jenn Riley Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives | Vice Doyenne, Initiatives numériques McGill University Library | Bibliothèque Université McGill 3459 McTavish Street | 3459, rue McTavish Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0C9 | Montréal (QC) Canada H3A 0C9 (514) 398-3642 jenn.ri...@mcgill.ca
