Follow Up to the "Naming a 'Favorites' System for a Library" Survey

[Varnum, Ken]

*Apologies for cross-posting *

A few weeks ago, I sent a link to a quick poll to a couple of listservs looking for information about what libraries have chosen to name their "save this for later" or "favorite" tool on the site. A handful of folks asked for the summarized results. I wrote up a brief summary on our library's technology blog at
http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/blt/archives/2012/03/bookmarks_favor.html


Ken Varnum
Web Systems Manager
University of Michigan Library -- http://lib.umich.edu/
varnum at umich.edu<mailto:varnum at umich.edu>


From: Ken Varnum <varnum at umich.edu<mailto:varnum at umich.edu>>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:51:35 -0500
Subject: Quick Survey: Naming a "Favorites" System for a Library

*Apologies for cross-posting *

We're working on a tool for our library website that will allow users to save a catalog entry, a link to a journal or database, or an article citation, for future use. There are a variety of names for this kind of tool (Favorites, Saved Items, Save for Later, Bookshelf, and so on), and I'd like to learn a bit from what you've done.  While many licensed databases and other web sites have this mechanism, I'm particularly interested in library-built systems.

The survey should take less than 3 minutes to complete:
http://bit.ly/library-faves

Please feel free to share with others as appropriate. I'm happy to summarize the results of the survey after it closes on February 20.

Ken Varnum
Web Systems Manager
University of Michigan Library -- http://lib.umich.edu/
varnum at umich.edu<mailto:varnum at umich.edu>

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