Secondary Search Results

My Discoveries
These include:

• Adding the item to a list.  The list, by default, is private (viewable only by you).  You may make the list public simply by clicking a check box, in which case all other Books In Print users may view your list.  This is useful in creating recommended reading lists, lists of items for research, etc.
• Adding a Comments and Quantity note to the item for use in ordering or sharing information with others.
• Adding a tag to the item for recall through searching or refine
• Adding a rating (from 1 to 5 stars)
• Adding a review to share your impressions of the item with other Books In Print users

For the end user, My Discoveries offers the ability to tag, review and rate all of the Books In Print’s materials. This allows users to contribute their own knowledge and opinions about BooksInPrint.com materials, benefiting patrons and librarians alike; by reviewing, tagging and networking, the user takes an active role in BooksInPrint.

For the library organization, the advantages are twofold: your users enjoy the freedom to label and organize their information world, while at the same time your library engages in ‘crowdsourcing’: enriching BooksInPrint with valuable information to make it a better experience for everyone.

With My Discoveries, your users can create any number of lists, add items to them, and organize them in different ways. A key advantage to these lists is that users can make them public, so that other users can find them with AquaBrowser, just like any other library resource.

The possibilities are endless. Anyone can share lists of hand picked items about a certain subject. Librarians can construct resource lists for current events, popular works or in-library events. Professors can create reading lists for their students.

My Discoveries implements a revolutionary concept: instead of keeping user content at the Books In Print level, Books In Print will share user content with other institutions all over the world. This sharing, like other user behaviors, such as objectionable word lists, can be controlled via an administrative interface.