RE: Preferred searches

["John Dillon" <JDillon at Anselm dot Edu>]

Ellen,

Here I suspect our preferred searches capabilities thru My Millennium are probably under-utilized given their value.  Personally, I find it to be a useful kind of alert service - I create and save searches of all kinds in my My Mill, and have them marked to send me email alerts when (new) relevant titles become available in our database.  

In terms of marketing, we are looking at making sure we're reminding our users about this service.

Re: pros and cons... On the up side, it 
	functions as an email alert service for our users
	saves them time from having to re-search our catalog as much
	probably reduces the number of "rush" requests for cataloging
		since items reported on are done being cataloged
	keeps users reminded about library resources, including other my mill options
	does allow for some flexibility and customization of alerts 

Perhaps on the downside:  
	currently there's no III statistics report on how many patrons are using it
		(this should be an enhancement)
	since cat date is the trip, sometimes existing titles get reported on
		(b/c of recataloging, etc.)
	citations in alert emails contain no hyperlinks to the catalog to check up-to-date availability, etc. (at least not as of 2002 ph. 3) (should be an easy enhancement)

all for now, hth

John 

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John Dillon               
Geisel Library
Saint Anselm College
100 Saint Anselm Drive
Manchester, NH 03012
Email:  jdillon at Anselm.edu
603-641-7349




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[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org]On Behalf Of Fran Levin
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 3:14 PM
To: efeinberg at uh dot edu; IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: Re: Preferred searches


We have a Best Sellers club and patrons always want other authors than 
those included on our lists.  I tell them to use the preferred lists to get 
notification of new purchases by their preferred author and then place 
their own holds.  Their own private "Best Sellers" list.

Fran
At 09:57 AM 1/18/2005, you wrote:
>I hoping to get some ideas for using the Preferred Searches feature of My 
>Millennium.  Does anyone out there have any ideas, pros, or cons?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Ellen
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