[WEB4LIB] student content on library web site

[Ross Singer]

Piper,

I had planned on implementing this on a new acquisitions list when I was 
at Emory.  I wasn't planning on it being moderated (the 
students/faculty/staff would have to log in, so their identity would be 
known).  I'm not sure how extensively it would have been used or the 
quality of the comments, but that wasn't really my concern.  I sort of 
pictured it being used in other ways than just reviews ("D00D, IT 
TOTALLY HAS THE ANSWERS TO TEST #3", "If you're looking for this book, 
it's actually on the stacks on the other end of the floor", "I would 
also recommend the Atlantic Monthly article about this particular 
author", etc.)

I'm very interested in user-supplied contribution to library services.  
In my opinion, the more user contribution that you can implement, the 
more stake the users have in the services.

-Ross.

Piper A Martin wrote:

>Hello list members,
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>Has anybody on this list ever added student content to their library's web site?  One of our reference and instruction librarians proposed adding student comments on search engines, databases, or quick reference resources to the informational database connect pages on our site.  These comments would be similar to amazon.com book reviews, IMDB comments, and the like and would serve basically the same purpose; that is, letting other undergraduates know how good or otherwise they found a given resource to be for searching, emailing articles, etc.  They would be filtered through the librarian who proposed this idea in that he would assign these reviews in his library research class, read them, and then upload them to the server himself.  
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>If you have had any experiences with this, please respond to me off list.  If there is sufficient interest, I would be happy to summarize.  Thanks in advance for your time!
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>Piper 
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>Piper Martin
>Reference/Web Librarian
>Paul Laurence Dunbar Library
>Wright State University
>Dayton, OH 45435
>piper.martin at wright.edu
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