<div dir="ltr">I agree with once third party companies get involved, that could become a privacy issue. Especially if patrons can't opt out easily. Goodreads is probably a good compromise if third parties would have to be involved to do it. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:16 PM Terran McCanna <<a href="mailto:tmccanna@georgialibraries.org">tmccanna@georgialibraries.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I feel fairly certain this would be a pretty massive project to come up with a way to determine recommendations and may or may not be worth the time and development expense since there are third party vendors that already do similar things as part of their core business. Syndetics and NoveList added content will both provide recommendations at the title or author level (ie, you look up a book you liked and it will recommend others that are available to you through the library), and then there are other companies that can generate recommendations based on personal reading history - that is going to depend on providing them with a certain amount of user data though, and that gets really tricky with patron confidentiality. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Of course, users can also download their reading history as a CSV file and upload it to GoodReads themselves if they are somewhat savvy - this could probably made easier with a relatively small development project to allow patrons to export their booklist in a format that was specifically compatible to goodreads so they wouldn't have to do any editing to it (unless they wanted to) after they downloaded it. <br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:37 AM Johnathon Redmon via Evergreen-general <<a href="mailto:evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org" target="_blank">evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm a cataloger, not a programmer so I don't know how reasonable (or possible) this is. But ever since I first heard about the idea of carousels, I've dreamed of being able to log into my patron account and have a netflix style recommendation carousel hooked on to an algorithm that suggests items based on the 1xx, 6xx and 7xx marc fields of items you've recently checked out. What would be the possibility of such a feature, and what kind of hurdles would have to be jumped to do this? <div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Johnathon Redmon</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Technical Services Cataloging Clerk</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Monticello Union-Township Public Library</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(241,241,241)">321 W. Broadway St.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(241,241,241)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(241,241,241)">Monticello, IN 47960 </span></font><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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