Recycling that lost data

This is one of those "I'm going to record how/when I thought of something" posts to preclude someone from telling me that my idea was written down elsewhere. It's not that what I said was entirely original--I firmly believe in the postmodernist claim that there is nothing entirely new under the sun--but likely an amalgam of pieces of information heard/read elsewhere. Still, my formulation was original, I assert.

At any rate, I'm reading Susan Gibbons's promising The Academic Library and the Net Gen Student: Making the Connections, and just ran across the sentence "[l]ibraries could create the equivalent of Amazon.com's recommendation system by using circulation patterns at their institutions" (p. 3). I thought, hey, I've said that. Sure enough, it was in the context of a talk I gave at an interview here at K-State in November 2006, while Gibbons's book appeared in 2007. Of course, I'm not saying that she cribbed me, not in the least. Just that, as with many epiphanies, they are not unique to one individual.