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<div>Dropping it.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>LIBRARYDIR <<a href="mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu">librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu</a>> on behalf of Howard Fuller <<a href="mailto:hfuller@whatcom.ctc.edu">hfuller@whatcom.ctc.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>WACTC Library Directors <<a href="mailto:librarydir@lists.ctc.edu">librarydir@lists.ctc.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, August 3, 2015 at 1:34 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>'WACTC Library Directors' <<a href="mailto:librarydir@lists.ctc.edu">librarydir@lists.ctc.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [LIBRARYDIR] To bX or not to bX<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Cancelled when the invoice arrived.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Howard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Howard Fuller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Library Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Whatcom Community College, Library |</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Heiner Center</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">237 W. Kellogg Road Bellingham WA 98226<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">360.383.3295<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:hfuller@whatcom.ctc.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">hfuller@whatcom.ctc.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">whatcom.edu/library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> LIBRARYDIR [<a href="mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu">mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Nina Pitts<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 03, 2015 12:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WACTC Library Directors <<a href="mailto:librarydir@lists.ctc.edu">librarydir@lists.ctc.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [LIBRARYDIR] To bX or not to bX<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 53, 90);">Peninsula is dropping it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 53, 90);">Nina Pitts<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 53, 90);">Library Supervisor<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 53, 90);">Peninsula College Library/Media Center<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 53, 90);">1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 53, 90);">Port Angeles, WA 98362<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 53, 90);">(360) 417-6274<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 53, 90);"><a href="mailto:npitts@pencol.edu">npitts@pencol.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> 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<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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b>From:</b> Anderson, John W. <br>
<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></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(93, 93, 93);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(93, 93, 93);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(93, 93, 93);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(93, 93, 93);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(93, 93, 93);">Empower Your Library Users</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(93, 93, 93);"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">with
Web 2.0 Recommendations</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(93, 93, 93);">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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(93, 93, 93); font-weight: normal;">Up-to-Date: include current scholarly material down to the article level<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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