The Public Library Catalogue as a Social Space: A Case Study of Social Discovery Systems in Two Canadian Public Libraries
Date
2011-01-01
Authors
Spiteri, Louise
Tarulli, Laurel
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Publisher
Canadian Society for Information Science
Abstract
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 or significantly in the two social discovery systems. Format is the predominant facet used to refine searches; the remaining facets are significantly underrepresented.
Description
Originally published in the Proceedings of the Canadian Association of Information Science
found at http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2011/16_Spiteri_and_Taruli.pdf
Keywords
Social discovery tools, Social media, Cataloguing, Metadata