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- Keeping tabs on popularity of colleagues’ publications
- Usage data as diagnostic tool for targeted collections: highly invested-in parts of collection not being used could drive arranging an exhibition to increase awareness
- Scholars doing research on other scholars' research and publications
- Look at when items were used: what was checked out in last week, month, year, etc.
- Link traversals and other link metrics could be sent to link’s publisher
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- Options: random selection out of tail for exposure, subject-filtered selection
- Important that UI expose long-tail possibilities prominently, above the page-fold
- Usage data from other institutions and ILL balances out local - institution’s biases
Negative usage data at local institution
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