Comments on: GMILCS Gets Fresh http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/01/29/gmilcs-gets-fresh/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Sat, 25 May 2013 00:44:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Marilyn Borgendale http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/01/29/gmilcs-gets-fresh/#comment-355 Marilyn Borgendale Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:23:28 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=253#comment-355 In New Hampshire we like to be first-in-the-nation, but GMILCS is proud to be progressive and flexible. Salt Lake County Libray in Utah went live with ChiliFresh reviews today.

ChiliFresh has been wonderful to work with as they not only wanted to get it functioning, but they listened to our suggestions to add the library’s policy, a terms of use and to make the registration process easier.

Reviewers do need to log in, and the reviews are moderated, but they are shared nationwide. A couple GMILCS libraries are adding reviews their readers wrote (on paper) for book discussion groups.

Please wait a few days before going to http://www.chilifresh.com to get more information on how to add this to your catalog. The product is so new that their webpage is not complete. But feel free to add reviews to our catalog at catalog.gmilcs.org!

]]> By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/01/29/gmilcs-gets-fresh/#comment-354 Brian Herzog Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:15:02 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=253#comment-354 Hi Kathy. Each library can choose what reviews get displayed within their catalog. The screenshot below is their Settings page – basically, libraries can either show only reviews from its own patrons, or pick and choose which states to allow (click the image to see it bigger):
Chili Fresh Admin Settings
And you’re right about getting patrons to contribute – I think that’ll be a big challenge. It’s a nice feature to offer, but I think it’ll take a little while before it really takes off.

It might be a good idea for get staff contributing during the initial promotion, so patrons can see how it works.

]]> By: Kathy Lussier http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/01/29/gmilcs-gets-fresh/#comment-353 Kathy Lussier Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:03:39 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=253#comment-353 Thanks for the update on Chili Fresh Brian! I love the fact that GMILCS is adding innovative tools like LibraryThing and Chili Fresh to make their catalogs more useful for patrons.

I have a quick question. I notice in the reviews for Where the Red Fern Grows that there are a lot of reviews from Chelmsford. So does Chili Fresh display comments and ratings from all libraries that are Chili Fresh users or just that one particular library?

If it’s from all libraries, that would be pretty cool since it is often difficult to get enough content from users in just one community.

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