[WEB4LIB] Re: Personalized Library Pages

[Thomas Dowling]

I'm curious if anyone developing a My Library page could comment on the
decision to require users to log in to see their customized settings.  My
gut instinct tells me that has just enough nuisance value that people may
create a profile out of curiosity, but not actually log into it very
often.  It seems like judicious use of persistent cookies could make user
customizations appear automatically, and I've been working on a prototype
that does that for the OhioLINK home page.


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Ream <dream at saturn.vcu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 10:18 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Personalized Library Pages


>
> Carl--
>
> Jimmy Ghaphery and I did a presentation about personalized library web
> pages at the Computers in Libraries conference back in March. You'll
find
> links to most of these projects on our web page at
> http://www.library.vcu.edu/mylibrary/cil99.html
>
> Our own personalized "My Library" project is accessible in demo form at
> http://www.library.vcu.edu/mylibrary/test.html
>
> --Dan Ream
>   Head, Instruction & Outreach Services
>   Virginia Commonwealth University Library
>   Richmond, Virginia
>
>
>
> On Thu, 27 May 1999, Carl Merat wrote:
>
> > A while back I believe there were some posts about libraries that were
> > offering a way for the end-user to personalize the library's homepage
when
> > they accessed it. I'm having difficulty accessing the
sunsite.berkeley.edu
> > archive site right now so I thought I might ask if anyone can refer me
to
> > those sites?
> >
> > Carl Merat
> > Technical Services Librarian
> > Liberty University
> >
>
>