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Library Personalization Systems: an Indian experience

V.K.J. Jeevan

Indira Gandhi National Open University, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110068, India, vkjj{at}rediffmail.com

Personalization of library resources is projected as a viable alternative to tide over the information explosion and to conserve the time of users for more productive intellectual tasks. Personalization needs sufficient electronic content at one's site as well as suitable mechanisms to identify the user through his or her profile, selectively search the content that matches the user profile, and arrange and present it to the user in an appealing fashion. The different components of a content personalization system include: `Content Serving System' to host electronic content beyond a critical mass, `User Interest Management System' to manage dynamic user profiles, `Search Engine' to automatically match content with profiles and `Personalized Content Delivery' mechanisms for delivering matched results to the user. Technological advancements made by web enabled computing coupled with continued user interest to gather information resources available on the web led many popular portals to bring in the concept of content personalization suiting varied user interests. A few such initiatives are explained. Library personalization projects like MyLibrary in different university libraries in advanced countries are discussed. To explore the efficacy of library personalization systems in a developing country, the SAI personalization prototype developed in the Central Library of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur is described in detail.

Key Words: library websites • library personalization systems • Indian Institute of Technology • Kharagpur • India

IFLA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1, 72-83 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0340035208088576
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