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Never Too Many Cooks: Add Spice to Your Catalog without Stewing Over User Input

In this presentation, Glenn Peterson from Hennepin County Library discusses innovative strategies to enrich library catalogs by integrating user-generated content. The session covers the benefits of blending staff blogs, patron comments, and customized alerts, fostering community engagement. Highlighting features like mini-reviews, personalized booklists, and audio reviews, Peterson reveals how these enhancements have led to increased patron interaction, particularly among teens. Discover how to create a vibrant library catalog that invites user input and delivers enhanced value.

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Never Too Many Cooks: Add Spice to Your Catalog without Stewing Over User Input

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  1. Never Too Many Cooks:Add Spice to Your Catalog without Stewing Over User Input Library 2.0: Delivering Twice the Value Friday, May 4, 2007 Glenn Peterson, Hennepin (MN) County Library

  2. Blending together… • Staff blogs • Patron comments • Staff booklists • Patron booklists • Customized feeds & alerts

  3. Comments are… • mini-reviews • on any title in the catalog • on titles included in booklists • a “blog for every book”

  4. Patrons can comment… • full bib screen • items out • pre-overdue notices • booklists

  5. Fruit salad… • Bibliographic info • Enriched content • Patron comments • Audio reviews (podcasts) • Amazon reviews • Related lists • Recent comments

  6. Savory? • Most-heavily used feature on our site • Especially popular with teens • 5700 comments/3000 users over the first 11 months

  7. Our to-do list • Ratings • Avatars • User profiles • Tag cloud

  8. Related developments • WPopac (Plymouth State U.) • SOPAC (Ann Arbor District Library) • Millennium (Innovative) • LibraryThing for Libraries

  9. Contact Information Glenn Peterson Web Administrator gpeterson@hclib.org www.hclib.org/extranet

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