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Comment on My library roots/routes by thewikiman

thewikiman — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:56:41 +0000

I think making serendipty work *for* you (if that isn’t a complete contradiction in terms) is one of the most important drivers in any sucessful career…

The music and library link is an interesting one – I come from a musical background so I wonder if I’ll end up doing something involving both at some stage.

Comment on My library roots/routes by Edith

Edith — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:38:40 +0000

Yes, I think it was months before I got serious about it but your post definitely set the cogs turning!

I think you’d have a lot to say about your library roots already, but hey, whenever you feel ready for it :)

Comment on My library roots/routes by Katie

Katie — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:16:12 +0000

I didn’t know it was me that got you thinking about this career seriously all those years ago!

Funny that I didn’t manage the traineeship route in the end after all – it’s turned out for the best though. It’s been so interesting reading everybody’s roots/routes, but I don’t feel quite qualified to do a post of my own yet (probably cos I’m not – haha ;) Hopefully in a couple of years.

Comment on Group mash – creating subject search from reading list by Edith

Edith — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:25:57 +0000

Thanks Tony, those are great suggestions!

Unsure how useful Mosaic is for us, as I expect all the courses in my institution are under the ‘Music’ UCAS code so stuff borrowed on other courses may be of limited relevance, but could still be worth a shot. Will have to make time to play around, and may well take you up on that offer :)

Comment on Group mash – creating subject search from reading list by Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:32:47 +0000

A couple of other ways of generating references come to mind:
1) take the ISBN of a book on a current reading list and then look up ‘people who bought this also bought that’ recommendations using the Amazon wbservice;
2) use the Mosaic api mentioned on @daveyp’s blog to do the following:
a) do an isbn lookup to find the courses that associated with people who have borrowed that book from an academic library;
b) then take the course codes and use the other API call to look up what other books were borrowed by people on those courses.
3) if 2, submit the solution to the developer competition and claim your prize :-)

tony
PS happy to help if i can….

Comment on Mashed Libraries 2008 by Coming soon, to a blog near here… – "Self-plagiarism is style"

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:17:49 +0000

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Comment on Mashed Library UK ‘09 by Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:33:00 +0000

Hi Edith,

Just read your blog entry and see that you mention that you would like to use a spellchecker in your PAC. I recently (well, about a year ago!) implemented one (yahoo spelling suggestions), which is really easy to plug into your OPAC as long as you have access to the HTML and don’t mind a bit of extra javascript in your OPAC. Here’s an example: http://tinyurl.com/m5ersa

If you’re interested I can speak to you at mashedlib 09!

Mark.

Comment on Mashed Libraries 2008 by Mashed Library UK ‘09 « Multi-faceted

Mashed Library UK ‘09 « Multi-faceted — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:15:37 +0000

[...] Mashed Library UK ‘09 Wednesday, 17 June 2009 — Edith My employer’s agreed to fund my attendance at the Mashed Library UK 2009 unconference in Huddersfield next month, which I’m very grateful for and really looking forward to after the successful inaugural event in London last year. [...]

Comment on Review: Spotify for libraries and music students by Jo Alcock

Jo Alcock — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:30:05 +0000

Great post Edith, thanks for such a useful review.

I still haven’t used Spotify yet, I keep saying I will give it a go and I’m sure at some point soon I’ll get round to it!

Will be interested to see whether it’s feasible in an academic library sense, I’m sure some of our Music students would find it useful.

Comment on Music recording copyright: EU term extension plans by More on the EU music copyright term extension « Multi-faceted

More on the EU music copyright term extension « Multi-faceted — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:11:00 +0000

[...] internet recently about the EU’s plans to extend the term of recorded music copyright, which I mentioned last year. The Open Rights Group has created the following cartoon video to explain what the plans are and [...]