{"id":439,"date":"2008-04-09T19:56:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T10:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/and-then-my-head-exploded\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T19:56:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T10:56:18","slug":"and-then-my-head-exploded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/and-then-my-head-exploded\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and then my head exploded &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..well my mind got a little bit twisted anyhow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Unnamed LMS Vendor was showing us their product at work today. The end of the demo was a booking system that added library hosted events to the catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>I thought &#8220;Why would our students want to come to a catalogue to find events? Shouldn&#8217;t we start our contact with them on their own library profile, instead of inside our stock management system? What if we made their profile the centre &#8230; and then the catalogue just one jumping off point among a whole lot of library elements?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/exploded-headsmall.JPG\" title=\"exploded-headsmall.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/exploded-headsmall.JPG\" alt=\"exploded-headsmall.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elements like the journal articles they saved via our federated search, their saved catalogue alerts, material they needed for their study via our course management system, a history of their  tagging and reviewing and ranking &#8230; and maybe an &#8220;ask a librarian&#8221; chat window&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Then I thought&#8230;&#8221;Well, what about the other profile starting points at our uni? We have a student portal and our Learning Management System. Why would they WANT another profile?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;. and what about their profiles OUTSIDE of the uni, would they rather use one of them as a starting point to access our holdings ?  &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And &#8211;  at the point of concluding that we  either need to embed ourselves into the cosmos of all their identities, or somehow import this cosmos into our library system- my brain just gave out in a panic of illogic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..well my mind got a little bit twisted anyhow&#8230; Unnamed LMS Vendor was showing us their product at work today. The end of the demo was a booking system that added library hosted events to the catalogue. I thought &#8220;Why would our students want to come to a catalogue to find events? Shouldn&#8217;t we start&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-catalogues-opacs-profiles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-75","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}