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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#2E74B5">Never started it because we knew we would not keep it when it came time to pay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2E74B5"> Eric Palo
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2E74B5"> Library Director <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> LIBRARYDIR [<a href="mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu">mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Fuhrman, Tim<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 03, 2015 12:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> an open discussion list for WA CTC Library Directors<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [LIBRARYDIR] To bX or not to bX</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">So are most folks keeping bX or dropping it?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Anderson, John W.
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 29, 2015 2:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Fuhrman, Tim <<a href="mailto:timf@bigbend.edu">timf@bigbend.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> bx<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D5D5D">The bX™ Recommender is a service that helps the users to discover relevant literature that they would not have found otherwise. Based
on the <a href="http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/?catid=%7b6065F62A-E435-4936-AFF7-C5A172EA1F48%7d" target="_blank">
usage of millions of researchers</a> around the globe and starting from the article the user is looking at it checks what other articles were used together with it and displays a list of relevant articles.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D5D5D">The articles may be from different journals, publishers and platforms and may even carry different keywords. bX recommendations are a
valuable extension to the user’s own research: the user finds an article, bX finds more for them.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D5D5D">Web-savvy users are already well accustomed to usage-based recommendations. Found on commercial websites such as Amazon.com, these
recommendations have become highly popular with users. Focused solely on the scholarly domain, bX recommendations are based on actual usage data. It is the first service to provide highly granular recommendations that point to specific scholarly articles.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D5D5D">The bX service is brought to you by the same team that created SFX and the OpenURL standard, a collaboration of Ex Libris and the Los
Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) renowned researchers Johan Bollen and Herbert Van de Sompel.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D5D5D">Empower Your Library Userswith Web 2.0 Recommendations</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D5D5D">By offering the bX Recommender, your library steps up to serve your patrons with a valuable tool that meets user expectations for up-to-date,
Web 2.0-type services, providing recommendations that are:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D5D5D;font-weight:normal">Easily Accessible: tightly integrated into scholarly search results</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">John W. Anderson</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Library Systems Specialist</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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