Location aid:
Personalized Notification (SDI)
Lets people know when new things arrive:
New books and other materials in their subject areas
New issues of journals that are of interest to them
Notification can be via email or via Web “portal”
User design can make or break SDI service:
Don’t spam them with irrelevant or uninteresting info
» (Let them sign up, and specify interests narrowly)
» (Make it easy to get more or less detail)
Don’t make them spend hours on setting up profiles
» Let them specify things they like as they go along)
» (Give them good starting points, such as community-
centered notification templates)