Emily's Musings

Last Collection Management Class

If you're only going to have class in person on campus once or twice a semester, it should definitely be on a day where the campus looks like this:

Plus, the Friends of the Library were having a big $5/bag book sale, so I couldn't resist getting a couple of interesting looking things...

Class was good as well -- I turned in my final paper which was on "Supplementing traditional reader's advisory service by layering user rating systems and collaborative filtering systems onto our online catalogs" -- like Amazon does when in recommends books for you based on what you've bought or rated and what other people who bought those books recommend... We had a great discussion about merchandizing and presentation of books in the library -- basically asking "What would Barnes and Noble do?" and realizing that many of the patrons coming to the library are there to browse, and we really don't set up most of our libraries to accomodate that. Rather, the books are organized so that we can find them, not so that patrons can. And don't even get me started on the problems with our online catalogs...