voting with their fingers: what research libraries can learn from user behavior
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Voting with Their Fingers: What Research Libraries Can Learn from User Behavior. Anne R. Kenney Columbia Reference Symposium March 2004. Recent Trends in User Behavior. Self service Satisfaction Seamlessness “Google is disintermediating the library.” The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Voting with Their Fingers: What Research Libraries Can Learn from User Behavior
Anne R. Kenney Columbia Reference
SymposiumMarch 2004
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Recent Trends in User Behavior
Self service Satisfaction Seamlessness
“Google is disintermediating the library.”
The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition
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How Do Libraries Stack Up? There are 139,800 libraries in the
US They circulate about the same
number of items as FedEx ships per day
Amazon ships over one fourth as many books per day as circulate in all US libraries combined
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Top Sites on the Web in the English Language
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Top Web Sites for Reference
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Most Popular Research Library Web Sites
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What do popular sites have in common?
Easy to use/low barriers to use Reuse/recombine information Personalization or anonymity Communication Community and participation Pan and zoom from macro to micro
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What do popular sites have in common?
Increase personal productivity Enhance decision making, laying
out options Relevancy and vetting Contextualization Prompts and suggestions Integration with other services,
databases
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What do popular sites have in common?
Value adds Supporting tools (translation) Ability to manipulate, save, and
use information What’s new/relevant; current
awareness
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Redefining the Search Experience
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Auxiliary Services
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Limiting the Search to the University Domain
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Relevancy/Assessment Information
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Search Inside Feature Offers Granularity
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Personalization, Community, and Participation
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1-Way & 2-Way Communication
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Refining Search/Offering Choices
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Impartial Information and Candidate Input
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Analogy to a Library Service
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Currently Relevant Information
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Link to respected review sources
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One Search. Three Responses.
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Concept Mapping
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The 88th Most Popular Site on the Web
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Costs to Support refdesk.com
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What Research Libraries Have Going For Them
Content (depth, volume, range) Trust Authoritative information Content management (retrieval,
classification, metadata) Common vocabulary and
processes
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What Research Libraries Have Going For Them
Formalized sharing mechanisms Free and equitable access to
clientele Common technology services
(authentication and authorization) Good communication networks Vetting information (indexes,
abstracts, reviews)
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What Research Libraries Have Going For Them
Auxiliary information (use data) Searching/sorting mechanisms Some capability to link databases Some relevance ranking
capabilities People!
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What Research Libraries Don’t Do Well
Complicated interface Lingo intensive Prerequisite user knowledge Non intuitive distinctions Little sense of community Lack of collaboration tools
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What Research Libraries Don’t Do Well
Nascent communication tools Lack of federated searching Rigid categorization Limited granular access Little recombinant use of
information, especially in public services to provide context or improve searching, vetting, relevance, and decision making
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What Research Libraries Don’t Do Well
Human intensive processes Limited external linking to relevant
sites Poor marketing of services and
products Limited embedding in other
domains to advertise services and provide direct access to resources
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Number 1 Library in College Category
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Most Popular Library Site on the Web
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Relevance Ranking at NLM
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RLG’s RedLightGreen Prototype
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Possible Next Steps?
Increase sense of community, document sharing, message sharing
Repurpose data we already collect and use it in serving our public Abstracts, indexes, reviews Subject headings/classification schemes Circulation data Recent acquisitions
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Possible Next Steps?
From CUL to Borrow Direct--make links to external sources overt
Provide tracking information on delivery options (including purchase)
Take the library into places where users go
Track use and prepare to adjust
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Conclusion: Two Quotes
“I don’t think people want a search engine, I think they want a find engine.” Seth Godin, Washington Post
“Netflix… seems to use an honest collaborative recommendation engine…it stocks almost everything and has done much to increase the visibility of foreign and independent films, and we’ve had excellent service” Walt Crawford, Cites & Insights