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V.K.J. Jeevan
Personalization of library resources is projected as a viable alternative to tide over the information explosion and to conserve the time of users for more productive intellectual tasks. Personalization needs suffi cient electronic content at one�s site as well as suitable mechanisms to identify the user through his or her profi le, selectively search the content that matches the user profi le, and arrange and present it to the user in an appealing fashion. The different components of a content personalization system include: �Content Serving System� to host electronic content beyond a critical mass, �User Interest Management System� to manage dynamic user profi les, �Search Engine� to automatically match content with profi les and �Personalized Content Delivery� mechanisms for delivering matched results to the user. Technological advancements made by web enabled computing coupled with continued user interest to gather information resources available on the web led many popular portals to bring in the concept of content personalization suiting varied user interests. A few such initiatives are explained. Library personalization projects like MyLibrary in different university libraries in advanced countries are discussed. To explore the effi cacy of library personalization systems in a developing country, the SAI personalization prototype developed in the Central Library of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur is described in detail.
