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Faceted navigation of social tagging applications
(ISKO-UK, 2011)
The goal of this paper is to conduct an analysis of seventeen existing and proposed methodologies for the use of facets in social tagging applications, with particular emphasis placed on the extent to which these methodologies ...
Social Discovery Tools: Cataloguing Meets User Convenience.
(Canadian Association for Information Science, 2011)
The paper discusses (a) the ethical dimensions of creating catalogue records to reflect user convenience, (b) the relationship between culture and user convenience, and (c) how social discovery tools can facilitate the ...
Lousie Spiteri CV
(2013-08-28)
The Public Library Catalogue as a Social Space: A Case Study of Social Discovery Systems in Two Canadian Public Libraries
(Canadian Society for Information Science, 2011-01-01)
This paper uses transaction log data to examine how library users interact with two social discovery systems used in two Canadian public library systems. Results indicate that user-generated content is not used extensively ...
Library catalogues of the future: A social space and collaborative tool?
(Library Trends, 2012)
Next-generation catalogues are providing opportunities for library
professionals and users to interact, collaborate, and enhance core
library functions. Technology, innovation, and creativity are all components
that are ...
Social discovery systems in public libraries: If we build them, will they come?
(Library Trends, 2012)
If the public library catalogue is to continue to have relevance to its
users, it needs to move beyond its current inventory model, where all
content is designed and controlled by library staff and client interaction
with ...