ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Virtual Conference-Daniel Greenstein

Daniel Greenstein
Experience comes from Open Content Alliance (content partners like UC, Internet Archive; tech partners like HP Labs, Yahoo, etc.; funders).
Interesting notes from talk:
Melvyl (UC library catalog) has three recommender systems in place (a "more like this" feature, recs produced by an algorithm run on their circ data, and recs from Amazon)
UC has found that [...]

ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Virtual Conference-Blogging in Academic Libraries

Susan Herzog of BlogBib and Susan's Blog gave a presentation on blogging in academic libraries. At the beginning of the session she asked a series of questions of the participants: less than half of the people in the session read blogs, about a quarter had their own blogs, and strangely enough, even fewer people had [...]

IDEO and innovation, Part 1

I've kept Tom Kelley's The Art of Innovation out from the library long past the time I sat down and inhaled it in one weekend but now that I have to give it back and that I've just started his second book, The Ten Faces of Innovation, I figure I should sum up, compare and [...]

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