[CODE4LIB] Notifications for short term loans
We are a SirsiDynix Symphony library that loans a lot of equipment on short terms loans (usually 4 hours). We charge relatively a relatively high overdue fee each hour the item is late in order to encourage students to return high dollar equipment like MacBook Pros. However, the notification functionality in Symphony is not good at sending users timely notices that an item is coming due so that they can renew it before being charged a fee. Generally users get a notice within the first hour after checkout providing the due date/time and an overdue the following morning if they haven't returned it. We're wondering if anyone has developed a creative solution to this problem of timely notifications. We'd be interested in solutions that alerted a user to an upcoming due date, say maybe 15 - 30 minutes in advance, whether it be email, text message, or an app-based mobile notification. We've looked a bit at vendor provided mobile applications, but haven't found much yet in this area. Let me know if you've developed a creative solution in-house or found a vendor that provides a relevant service. We could do this from scratch, but would love to build off some prior work or take advantage of other elegant solutions. thanks! -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?
Not state of the art anymore, but we still use a cover-based browse at NCSU: http://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/record/NCSU1855526 http://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/browse?callNumber=SD418.3+.A53+C26+2005format=covers We have work underway to add a horizontal cover-based widget to the full record to allow browsing directly there a la Amazon recommendations. We are actually planning to offer both call number browse and a subject-based browse. -emily Date:Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:23:11 -0700 From:todd.d.robb...@gmail.com todd.d.robb...@gmail.com Subject: Re: state of the art in virtual shelf browse? BYU has a neat alphabetical browser by title, subject, and call number via autocomplete: https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/browse –Tod On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Benjamin Armintor armin...@gmail.com wrote: Jenn, To pitch another example in with Tom's: CLIO at Columbia http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/9399500 Our layout is different, and (as you can see) it's collapsed by default. - Ben On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: Jenn, You can make your own conclusions about state of the art, but here is Stanford's virtual shelf browse integrated into SearchWorks: - embedded in a record view as a film strip (see the browse related items section of the page) - a full page, gallery view of related items, grouped together by call number By design, this virtual shelf browse is across Stanford's entire holdings, regardless of physical location of the books. Another implementation to look at is Harvard's Stacklife: http://stacklife.harvard.edu/ - Tom On Jan 25, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Jenn Riley wrote: At my library, we're starting to think about virtual shelf browsing options. Who's doing a really good job with this now? What organizations can I look to for state of the art implementations for inspiration? Thanks for any suggestions. Jenn --- Jenn Riley Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives | Vice Doyenne, Initiatives numériques McGill University Library | Bibliothèque Université McGill 3459 McTavish Street | 3459, rue McTavish Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0C9 | Montréal (QC) Canada H3A 0C9 (514) 398-3642 jenn.ri...@mcgill.ca -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is NOW OPEN!
Anyone know if internet is included? I mean, it would be crazy if it's not, but just to make sure somebody thought about it... On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Mark A. Matienzo mark.matie...@gmail.com wrote: I made my reservation on Sunday, and I ran into the same snag. They suggested I wait an hour or so for the change to propagate throughout the system. Mark On Dec 8, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Mark Mounts mark.mou...@dartmouth.edu wrote: I just tried to check my hotel reservation that I made through the link on the registration page with the hotel directly and they couldn’t find my reservation - and now they claim to be out of rooms. Best to check yours! On 12/8/14, 1:46 PM, Tom Johnson johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also being told that you will likely get the block rate for the weekend if you call and ask. Again, we're working to make sure the edge dates stay available and ready to ask the hotel to expand any dates that fill up. We are closing in on sold out for Thursday, but trying to expand that day, Monday-Wednesday nights are still very available. On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Tom Johnson johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com wrote: I'm told we're not currently out of block space for any of Sunday-Thursday nights. If you're having trouble, calling the hotel directly is probably the best solution. We'll do our best to stay on top of the block status and expand it where needed. The hotel has been very flexible thus far, and I get the impression they would be glad if we booked them solid. On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Tom Johnson johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com wrote: Any chance we could get in touch with the hotel? It might not be that the hotel is booked up, but rather that it won't allow us to order that night on the block. That seems to be the case (i.e. the block for Thursday night is sold out). We're working on getting info and expanding the block as needed. On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote: Lack of Thursday overnight is going to be a big deal, especially with the west coast location. Any chance we could get in touch with the hotel? It might not be that the hotel is booked up, but rather that it won't allow us to order that night on the block. On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Collier, Aaron acoll...@calstate.edu wrote: This is the problem I had. Tried to book through the weekend and it apparently wasn't available. --- --- Aaron Collier Digital Repository Services Manager Systemwide Digital Library Services, California State University From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua Gomez [jgo...@getty.edu] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 10:10 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is NOW OPEN! I had trouble as well, but when I restricted my reservation to only Sunday-Wed nights, it then allowed me to reserve rooms. It appears that there are no rooms available for Thursday or Friday after the conference. -Josh Joshua Gomez | Sr. Software Engineer Getty Research Institute | Los Angeles, CA 310-440-7421 Louisa Kwasigroch lkwasigr...@clir.org 12/08/14 10:07 AM I just tried the link from the registration page: https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_neweventID=117148 45 , and then clicked on łmake a reservation˛, and it allowed me to select dates and get a room. On 12/8/14, 1:00 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote: Can someone from the conference check with the hotel about our room block? It seems weird that we've got a link to a special event page but that it's returning no results on the day of registration On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Dana Jemison dana.jemi...@ucop.edu wrote: Looks like the recommended hotel is already filled up. Are there any other options close by? Thanks! Dana Dana Jemison Principal Metadata Analyst California Digital Library University of California, Office of the President 415 20th Street, 4th Floor, Office 424B Oakland, CA 94612-2901 Tel: 510.987.0832 Email: dana.jemi...@ucop.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Wick, Ryan Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 9:00 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is NOW OPEN! Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is now open! To register for Code4Lib 2015, please visit: http://c4l2015.eventbrite.com Code4Lib will be held at the Hilton Portland Executive Tower located in downtown Portland. Rooms are
Re: [CODE4LIB] [code4libcon] Code4Lib 2014 Reminder: Hotel Reservation
Also a reminder for those on the waitlist: If you have been contacted about registering and have not yet responded, your position will be forfeited if you do not respond by the end of this week. We need to get people registered, but there are a few we have not heard back from in the last week. You should be receiving another reminder email from CONCENTRA today. Questions about registration or the waitlist or cancellations should be directed to CONCENTRA: code4...@concentra-cms.com thanks! -emily On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote: This is a reminder to please make your hotel reservations for Code4Lib 2014. As of Friday, only 73% of the room block had been reserved. The conference needs to reserve 80% of the room block or there will be financial consequences that will impact Code4Lib 2014. If you haven't made your reservations, yet, please take a few moments to reserve your room today. Here is the hotel reservation information for your convenience: The Sheraton Raleigh special conference rate of US $159 per night (exluding taxes, currently 12.75%) includes in-room internet at no extra charge. The conference rate is only available until February 24, 2014, or until the group block sells out, whichever comes first. To complete your reservation, you may call 1-800-325-3535 (and request the code4lib group rate) or use the following link: https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=1308017755key=6A16E *Note that a deposit* in the amount of one-night's stay plus tax is required at the time of reservation ($179.27 total.) Thank you, Tim McGeary Code4Lib 2014 Conference Co-Chair -- Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary 484-294-7660 (cell) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups code4libcon group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to code4libcon+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to code4lib...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/code4libcon. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/code4libcon/CALBScSSzxeOhGEoDD32oQ1QR0TZXVTgyc7y32X%3DtPDhMjm8WZg%40mail.gmail.com . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 registration update
Just a quick note - we are up to 317 registrants for Code4Lib 2014. This is pretty amazing turnaround this year. We will be capping our registration system at 325 for the moment to ensure that all of our priority registrations can get in. We'll put a simple waitlist form (posted to this list and up on the website) once we hit 325. We will likely be able to pull in some people from the waitlist, so please don't hesitate to add your name to the form. Thanks for all your great participation! -emily -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 registration update
And with that, registration is now closed! If you haven't made it in yet, hustle on over to our waitlist form and get yourself signed up there, as we will almost certainly be bringing over a few people first come, first served from the waitlist. Waitlist: https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/forms/d/1Vuo7g7xbNeGCQywwngkAt4OMdX0k3wsoiwCrxJtdx6k/viewform If you are trying to register for a reserved priority reservation slot (presenter, pre-conf organizer, scholarship recipient, platinum/gold sponsor, or table sponsor), please contact CONCENTRA directly for details on registering: code4...@concentra-cms.com or (303) 254-6600. thanks all! -emily On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Emily Lynema emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu wrote: Just a quick note - we are up to 317 registrants for Code4Lib 2014. This is pretty amazing turnaround this year. We will be capping our registration system at 325 for the moment to ensure that all of our priority registrations can get in. We'll put a simple waitlist form (posted to this list and up on the website) once we hit 325. We will likely be able to pull in some people from the waitlist, so please don't hesitate to add your name to the form. Thanks for all your great participation! -emily -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] [code4libcon] Code4Lib 2014 Registration is now open!
Becky,
Thought folks on both lists might be interested in a numbers update. We had
286 registrations as of yesterday. Pretty amazing how quickly that came in!
Don't have numbers for today yet, but I assume the rate will drop off
quickly.
Emily
On Thursday, January 16, 2014, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote:
It looks like the system didn't crash, so congratulations to all on
surviving the rush!
What's the count so far?
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:00:03 AM UTC-6, Tim McGeary wrote:
Colleagues,
I am happy announce that the Code4Lib 2014 General Registration is now
open:
https://www.concentra-cms.com/c/c4l2014
As a reminder, the cost of registration is $165, and registration for
pre-conferences is also available. Half-day pre-conferences are $5 each
and full day pre-conferences are $10.
Payment will be required for registration and can be made by credit card.
Information will be available for attendees that require alternative means
of payment, but registration will not guaranteed or saved until payment is
made. Registration for Code4Lib 2014 will be closed on Friday February
14, 2014 or when we reach a cap of 350 registrations.
Priority registration has been given to Presenters, Pre-conference
organizers, Scholarship awardees, Table sponsors, and Platinum and Gold
sponsors. If you received information on Priority Registration and you
have not registered yet, please do so as soon as possible.
The Conference Hotel discount at the Raleigh Sheraton will be provided
upon registration. We encourage you to book your hotel room immediately
following your registration being confirmed to lock in your space in the
hotel.
We are looking forward to hosting you in North Carolina!
Tim McGeary
Director of Library Information Technology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
919.962.3981
tim.m...@unc.edu
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[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 Registration is now open!
Just a quick note that if you need any more info about the area or transportation, please see the website: http://code4lib.org/conference/2014. -emily --- Colleagues, I am happy announce that the Code4Lib 2014 General Registration is now open: https://www.concentra-cms.com/c/c4l2014 As a reminder, the cost of registration is $165, and registration for pre-conferences is also available. Half-day pre-conferences are $5 each and full day pre-conferences are $10. Payment will be required for registration and can be made by credit card. Information will be available for attendees that require alternative means of payment, but registration will not guaranteed or saved until payment is made. Registration for Code4Lib 2014 will be closed on Friday February 14, 2014 or when we reach a cap of 350 registrations. Priority registration has been given to Presenters, Pre-conference organizers, Scholarship awardees, Table sponsors, and Platinum and Gold sponsors. If you received information on Priority Registration and you have not registered yet, please do so as soon as possible. The Conference Hotel discount at the Raleigh Sheraton will be provided upon registration. We encourage you to book your hotel room immediately following your registration being confirmed to lock in your space in the hotel. We are looking forward to hosting you in North Carolina! Tim McGeary Director of Library Information Technology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 919.962.3981[log in to unmask] https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A2%3DCODE4LIB%3B44bc5cc8.1401 Twitter/Google/Skype/Yahoo: timmcgeary -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 pre-conferences: please indicate interest on wiki
Hi folks, We have [possibly?] a record number of pre-conference proposals up on the wiki -- 19 by my count. Yay for the awesomeness of you all! We haven't crunched the numbers on morning vs. afternoon scheduling and the number of rooms available quite yet, but it would be really, super duper helpful if folks who think they might want to attend a pre-conference could take a quick look in the next couple of days and indicate interest. This is by no means a binding signup (that will happen at time of registration), but it will help us make sure that all pre-conferences with interest find a room somewhere. Sign up here! http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2014_preconference_proposals thanks! -emily -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2014 Diversity Scholarships: Call for Applications
Just a note that yes, the hosting committee was a bit surprised by the number of scholarships that came in this year! We realized at the last minute that perhaps we should have discussed a scholarship based SOLELY on economic need, but there just wasn't the opportunity to thoughtfully consider changing course for this year at a late date. It's an idea we put a pin in to suggest to next year's hosts to consider if a large number of scholarships are available again next year. And yes, at least one scholarship has been provided in past years through a collection of small donations from the community itself. So anyone could organize an additional scholarship. If there is an organization we could invoice, scholarships could STILL be added to the roster for this year and handled by the local hosts, as well. -emily - Date:Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:28:14 -0500 From:Sarah Shealy sarah.she...@outlook.com Subject: Re: Code4lib 2014 Diversity Scholarships: Call for Applications It's honestly too late this year to change the entire scholarship system. I don't disagree that it would be awesome to have scholarships for everyone who has some sort of economic need, and this is a conversation that should be had. But there's a lot that goes into opening something up based on economic status, and while that work would be valuable and awesome, it's a little late in the game for 2014. There's also the consideration of when to offer both gender and need-based scholarships, since the number of scholarships are variable and if there are only two to be awarded then the historic trend of ethnic/gender based awards should probably be carried forward. Or not. I would like to point out that for a lot of white men working in the tech field, going to a local user group or conference is an easy thing and you get to see people like you who do the things you do. I had to go to Chicago last year (I live in SC - and I was a scholarship recipient) in order to see women doing the same thing that I do. And it was pretty awesome. So I would vote for always having the ethnic/gender based scholarship simply for the connection it can give people - it honestly isn't something that be described. I went from having no cultural touchstones in this area of my life to having several. Hopefully this will help turn the tide from rabble rabble rabble to thinking about ways to add to the system - not just overhaul the whole shebang. I would suggest that some of you who are upset about how things are run sign up for the Scholarship Committee next year and do some work from the inside. Because, again, you should have raised your concerns before we sent out the call. The scholarships happen every year. Sarah -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] REMINDER: code4lib 2014 talk proposals due TODAY
This is your final reminder to submit proposals for Code4Lib 2014 in Raleigh, NC. Talk proposals are due TODAY by 5pm PST. We've got some great proposals in so far, but we still have room for more this year. For details about the conference, see http://code4lib.org/conference/2014. For details about submitting a proposal (it's super easy), see the full call for proposals below. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:14 PM Subject: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 Call for Proposals To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Code4lib 2014 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. The conference will be held at the *Sheraton Raleigh Hotel in downtown Raleigh, NC from March 24 - 27, 2014*. For more information about the hotel, visit http://www.sheratonraleigh.com/ We are currently accepting proposals for prepared talks and pre-conferences. While only a limited number of these can be selected, multiple lightning talk and breakout sessions will provide additional opportunities for you to make your voice heard at the conference. *Proposals for Prepared Talks:* Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and should focus on one or more of the following areas: - Projects you've worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of existing technologies and/or development of new software - Tools and technologies – How to get the most out of existing tools, standards and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better) - Technical issues – Big issues in library technology that should be addressed or better understood - Relevant non-technical issues – Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration, diversity, organizational challenges, etc. *To submit a proposal:* - Go to http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2014_Prepared_Talk_Proposals - Log in to the wiki in order to submit a proposal. If you are not already registered, follow the instructions to do so. - Provide a title and brief (500 words or fewer) description of your proposed talk. - If you so choose, you may also indicate when, if ever, you have presented at a prior Code4Lib conference. This information is completely optional, but it may assist us in opening the conference to new presenters. As in past years, the Code4Lib community will vote on proposals that they would like to see included in the program. This year, however, only the top 10 proposals will be guaranteed a slot at the conference. Additional presentations will be selected by the Program Committee in an effort to ensure diversity in program content. Community votes will, of course, still weigh heavily in these decisions. Presenters whose proposals are selected for inclusion in the program will be guaranteed an opportunity to register for the conference. The standard conference registration fee will still apply. Proposals can be submitted through Friday, November 8, 2013, at 5pm PST. Voting will commence on November 18, 2013 and continue through December 6, 2013. The final line-up of presentations will be announced in early January, 2014. *Pre-Conference Proposals:* Pre-conferences are full- or half-day sessions that will be held on Monday, March 24th, 2014 and can cover just about any topic you can think of [1]. If you are interested in hosting a pre-conference session, please create a pitch at http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2014_preconference_proposals. Pitches should be added to the wiki by December 6. Please indicate the topic of your session and your preference for full-day or half-day. This is expected to be a fluid process, as our venue provides some flexibility in determining space. *Pre-Conference Attendance:* If you are interested in attending a pre-conference, please list your name underneath the pre-conference description on the wiki; this does not incur any obligation on your part, but will help planners. You might want to visit the page occasionally as new session pitches are added. Actual, less-revocable registration for pre-conferences will be handled as part of the overall conference registration, and will involve a very small fee. We look forward to reading your proposals, and seeing you at the conference! Code4Lib 2014 Program Committee -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] 2014 Conference
John, We are still working on pricing, as we are negotiating with the hotel for food and beverage and are still working on an A/V RFP. And we are still actively working on sponsorship for the conference. The conference normally runs less than $200 registration. Based on our current budget estimates, the same will be true this year, although like I said, we don't have A/V quotes yet, so we can't promise anything yet. Currently, we anticipate that registration will open mid-January. It is on our calendar to announce a firm registration date by the beginning of December; we'll do it earlier if we can get the registration amount nailed down earlier. If you are interested in asking more about the conference, you can always utilize this list, or you can join the open 'code4libcon' google group and ask there. Also: note to all that the CFP for the conference will be going out VERY SOON. So it's not too early to start thinking about what kind of proposal you might want to put in. :) And a gentle reminder to those who have not presented at Code4Lib before - it's ok to submit a proposal for work you haven't finished yet. It'll be a great motivator for you to get it done in the upcoming months! -emily -- Date:Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:29:37 + From:John Blair john.bl...@usm.edu Subject: 2014 Conference Hello- I'm looking to attend the 2014 conference, and am having a hard time finding information regarding registration, pricing, and contact information. Perhaps, I'm too early to the party? Please advise. -John Blair -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 volunteers needed
Hey folks, Now that we have a location and a date, the local 2014 planning committee has been working hard on an overall timeline for conference stuff. It's only August but we're excited! But we still need MORE HELP! We have a great big local planning group between our 4 TRLN institutions and other NC people, but we really want to include non-NC folks in the planning process. We want this to be a community event with diverse participation in the planning process, just like always. Would you be willing to consider signing up to help with a committee? In particular, we really need folks who have served previously to help guide local newbies on the committees. Our biggest areas of need right now are the Program Committee, the Scholarships Committee, and the Pre-Conference Committee. But in reality, we are looking pretty learn everywhere (except the Sponsorships Committee, which is already working hard). Check out our volunteers page [1]. Sign up. I've included a list of goal deadlines for each committee on the wiki now, so you can pick the one that fits your schedule. thanks! -emily [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_2014_Conference_Planning_Volunteers#Code4Lib_2014_Committees -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] call numbers for e-books
Hey folks, I know there are others out there doing neat things with shelf browsing online around a certain book. I'm looking for best practices for call numbers for e-books. Anyone else made good traction on this problem? We seem to do ok with pulling call numbers from the MARC record from our OCLC-sourced records. But we are now loading big e-book files from Serials Solutions, which are not sourced from OCLC to my knowledge and which do not have call numbers in the MARC records. I know about OCLC's Classify service, which sounds good. Just wondering if anyone has actually done anything with it, or tackled this issue via other techniques. I know that MarcEdit is using Classify, but we've had trouble getting it to use the right ID number in our MARC records as a match point, so we are looking for other alternatives, too. thanks! -emily -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] MarcEdit question
We have been trying to use the Generate call numbers feature built into MarcEdit (uses OCLC's Classify service [1]) to automatically assign call numbers to our e-book loads for the purposes of shelf browsing. However, we have found a large number of incorrectly assigned call numbers result (often with no apparent reason for why a call number seemed to be getting matched to a record). Has anyone else tried to work with this tool? No one else on the MarcEdit email list seemed to have any experience, so I thought I'd try one last ditch here. Obviously, we could build our own script to enhance records with call numbers based on OCLC's service. But it would nice to be able to use prior art, especially when our cataloging staff are already using MarcEdit to modify these records prior to loading. -emily [1] http://oclc.org/developer/services/classify -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014: Save the dates!
Early signs point to attendees who register under government rates being able to count toward our room block. We'll have for sure info on that at time of registration. But it sounds like y'all can go for the government rate if it's available to you; this hotel does have an amazing government rate. And yes, this price is a significant reduction over the standard nightly rate for this hotel. And it does include wireless, which otherwise would be $10/day, I believe. As has been pointed out already, this location is primo downtown location, which we chose for its walkability to restaurants and pubs. The Hilton on the north side of town is not walkable to similar food / entertainment, nor is there public transportation to make up the difference, which impacts the room cost. There are indeed cheaper hotels in the area, and we do assume that some folks will book those cheaper hotels, as always happens. We encourage those who can pay this reasonable rate to do so as we need to meet a certain minimum requirement toward rooms as part of our agreement, otherwise we begin to be charged extra for our meeting space. We can always approach the hotel about the pricing, but the contract has been signed so we really don't have any additional leverage at this point. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote: A few more factual follow-ups for reference: - The negotiation process was NOT easy and we explored many different venues. We are not getting a raw deal. Trust me, we had some raw deals offered. This contract has a lot of things that help us keep our collective costs down and protect the conference. - The Hilton in Raleigh is not competitor geographically to the downtown hotels, which have their own conference spaces but also serve the Raleigh Convention Center across the street from both. - I am checking with CONCENTRA and the Sheraton about whether those booking with government rates can count toward our block. The Sheraton conference manager is on vacation this week so it will be at least a week before I have an answer. However, I do expect we have more government rate eligible attendees than hotels typically allocate for in any given situation. As Francis said, it is hard to convince hotels to trust a non-organization like Code4Lib. But that's why we hired CONCENTRA for this year. They do this all year long, for conferences big and small, and they know how to negotiate (as I saw and heard firsthand the past couple months). And they'll be continuing to work with us through the end of the conference and all the bill paying that happens after the conference. We are in good hands, but as Roy said, please join the planning committee. There is plenty of room! Tim On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 05:00:42AM -0700, BWS Johnson wrote: ??? Chicago is not Raleigh. I would expect to pay more in a major metropolis than in the Southeast University market. Further, ALA's continued to mystify me in the conference department, too. We are terrible negotiators. Dunno about that. Given that we the Code4lib we do not exist as a real (as in Taxman) organization. I suspect this years planners ran into the same problems we did. This was articulated to us really well. Our request for rooms compares to. We are having a wedding in Chicago in February and we promise 400 of our family will be coming. It is hard to convince them otherwise. Now the delicious irony was after the Conference they were wondering if we would be returning to Chicago again in 2014. You can keep conference costs down in other ways by helping raise money for sponsorships. http://code4lib.org/node/487 regards, ./fxk Cheers, Brooke -- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary 484-294-7660 (cell)
Re: [CODE4LIB] Why we need multiple discovery services engine?
Here at NCSU, we use our locally-hosted Endeca service for our catalog and Serials Solutions Summon as an article search solution. Why do this? 1. Our next-gen library catalog (Endeca) came first. This was before Solr hit the library world, and before library vendors started working on improving their bundled catalog apps. Our bundled catalog was terrible, and we wanted something better. This was back in the day when everyone was doing federated search for articles (think MetaLib). 2. 4-5 years down the road, a number of vendors (Ebsco, Serials Solutions, etc.) were getting into the web scale discovery business. Aka, one big index that includes everything, in particular the citation content that libraries have historically not had local access to index / search. We bought Summon to solve the article search problem that federated searching never resolved for us. We wanted one access point for less experienced users who needed to find articles. Since we had backed away from federated search for articles, this was our big pain point; we already had a catalog we liked. We've actually loaded our catalog content into Summon, as well. So why keep both? We've done a LOT of work adding functionality into our local catalog, including enhanced title searching,lots of supplemental content, a quite complex local requesting system. So we can't just switch to the Summon interface without some effort. In addition, we have found that we prefer the bento box approach to searching across formats, as opposed to the integrated index approach of Summon. At least at this moment. We use this in the search across our library website [1]. It's just really, really hard to always surface the right kind of thing the user is looking for when the things you're indexing are different in nature (ex: bibliographic record vs. full-text of newspaper article). With the bento box approach, you have better opportunities to surface the different types of content available, while still having local systems optimized for specific content types. Maybe that's a long-winded excuse for not pushing to break down silos more. Time will probably tell. -emily [1] http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/search/?q=java - Date:Fri, 1 Feb 2013 04:21:01 + From:Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu Subject: Re: Why we need multiple discovery services engine? So, there are two categories of solutions here -- 1) local indexes, where you create the index yourself, like blacklight or vufind (both based on a local Solr). 2) vendor-hosted indexes, where the vendor includes all sorts of things in their index that you the customer don't have local metadata for, mostly including lots and lots of scholarly article citations. If you want to include scholarly article citations, you probably can't do that with a local index solution. Although some consortiums have done some interesting stuff in that area, let's just say it takes a lot of resources to do. For most people, if you want to include article search in your index, it's not feasilbe to do so with a local index. So only VuFind/Blacklight with a local Solr is out, if you want article search. You _can_ load local content in a vendor-hosted index like EDS/Primo/Summon. So plenty of people do choose a vendor-hosted index product as their only discovery tool, including both local metadata and vendor-provided metadata. As you suggest. But some people want the increased control that a locally controlled Solr index gives you, for the local metadata where it's feasible. So use a local index product. But still want the article search you can get with a vendor-hosted index product. So they use both. There is also at least some reasons to believe that our users don't mind and may even prefer having local results and hosted metadata results presented seperately (although probably preferably in a consistent UI), rather than merged. A bunch more discussion of these issues is included in my blog post at: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/article-search-improvement-strategy/ From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Wayne Lam [ wing...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:31 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Why we need multiple discovery services engine? Hi all, I saw in numerous of library website, many of them would have their own based discovery services (e.g. blacklight / vufind) and at the same time they will have vendor based discovery services (e.g. EDS / Primo / Summon). Instead of having to maintain 2 separate system, why not put everything into just one? Any special reason or concern? Best Wayne -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?
Yes, there were (we used 360 Link during the testing). This is one of the reasons we turned on 1-Click about 6 months ago and have been fairly pleased with the results. -emily -- Date:Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:58:28 -0400 From:Jimmy Ghaphery jghap...@vcu.edu Subject: Re: U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA? Also the NC State study on Summon is worth mentioning. If memory serves there was consistent issues with the last mile in getting to the resource. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/userstudies/studies/2010summon On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Matthew LeVan levan.matt...@gmail.com wrote: It's like a google search challenge! Looks like they changed their student home link patterns... http://home.ubalt.edu/nicole.kerber/idia642/Final_Usability_Report.pdf Thanks, matt On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hi helpful code4lib community, at one point there was a report online at: http://student-iat.ubalt.edu/**students/kerber_n/idia642/** Final_Usability_Report.pdf http://student-iat.ubalt.edu/students/kerber_n/idia642/Final_Usability_Report.pdf David Walker tells me the report at that location included findings about SFX and/or other link resolvers. I'm really interested in reading it. But it's gone from that location, and I'm not sure if it's somewhere else (I don't have a title/author to search for other than that URL, which is not in google cache or internet archive). Is anyone reading this familiar with the report? Perhaps one of the authors is reading this, or someone reading it knows one of the authors and can be put me in touch? Or knows someone likely in the relevant dept at ubalt and can be put me in touch? Or has any other information about this report or ways to get it? Thanks! Jonathan -- Jimmy Ghaphery Head, Library Information Systems VCU Libraries 804-827-3551 -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] U of Baltimore, Final Usability Report, link resolvers -- MIA?
1-Click doesn't really have anything to do with Summon. But it has to do with the link resolver. The thing about Summon (as opposed to other tools sometimes used as a starting point for users) is that it does not locally provide any access to full-text. When we first implemented Summon back in early 2010, it *always* sent users through the link resolver for access to any full-text. The first thing we noticed was just how many problems there still were with link resolution, especially when harvesting metadata from publishers instead of directly fro the other database providers being linked to (a lot of that has now been improved, but problems do remain). Simultaneously, we found that users familiar with databases like Academic Search Premier were used to getting full-text with one click; they were thrown off when they landed on a link resolver service window after clicking on a citation. There are a couple of things that improve this user experience. For starters, we bit the bullet and turned on 360 Link's 1-click tool which forwards users directly through to article content whenever possible, bypassing the link resolver service window. Simultaneously, Serials Solutions / Summon has also begun to work with what they call index enhanced direct linking in lieu of OpenURL linking to do a better job of sending users directly through to content without passing through the link resolver. With the 1-Click in place, users only see our 360 Link service window if there's no index-enhanced direct link and 360 Link doesn't know how to link down to the article level for a database (or we don't have access to the content). So it's a lot less frequent. Users and staff are both happy about this change. If you are thinking of using Summon with a different link resolver, you'd have to see if they provide a similar pass-through type service. I *think* that SFX does. -emily On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: On 9/5/2012 9:04 AM, Emily Lynema wrote: Yes, there were (we used 360 Link during the testing). This is one of the reasons we turned on 1-Click about 6 months ago and have been fairly pleased with the results. What does turn on 1-Click mean with regard to Summon? This has turned into a somewhat interesting conversation. We all need to talk about this stuff more! -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Maker Spaces and Academic Libraries
are the same existing staff that were here previously. No one is specially trained- everyone has printed on the 3D printer- including all of our student workers. It's fun, so it hasn't been a hard sell to anyone to make something and learn...which is pretty cool. We set up the 3D Touch printer ourselves- in fact the students busted open the box the second it arrived, set it up and started printing. I wasn't even in the building when that all happened- they took it on and I'm happy about that. The production machine we have - the Uprint SE needed setup from the vendor. He did a fairly quick rundown of how it all works and did the machine setup for us. Since then it's been going non-stop without much maintenance. Out of both of the machines, the hobbyist machine has needed more maintenance from us in terms of keeping it going well. The higher end machine has been invaluable in that it runs without lots of care and feeding. We have a couple of different options available for 3D software and we have a number of students and student workers who are already well-versed in creating with these tools. We are asking them to teach others and give workshops- this works well as most of our students prefer to learn from other students in a casual way. Our staff may not be 3D experts but we are a learning organization and everyone jumps in when help is needed- we do our best and work through the problems- then share with each other when we learn something new. Most seem to learn best by doing and we do a lot. :) --Lisa Lisa Kurt Engineering + Emerging Technologies Librarian DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library University of Nevada, Reno phone: 775.682.5706 -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Reservesdirect.org
Thanks Steven. Ross Singer also passed on a contact for me at Emory; I'll try to inquire about getting a wiki dump. -emily Date:Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:30:53 -0400 From:Steven Anderson stevencander...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Reservesdirect.org Emily=2C I know some of the developers at Emory Universities Libraries (I worked the= re before). I'll pass this along to them directly just in case they have no= t seen it and hopefully theycan provide the wiki content. Take care. Sincerely=2CSteven Anderson Date: Tue=2C 20 Mar 2012 15:30:13 -0400 From: emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] Reservesdirect.org To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU =20 Does anyone here know the disposition of reservesdirect.org? NCSU release= d an updated version of the ReservesDirect code last year on Google=2C but = we had linked directly to the reservesdirect.org (used to be powered by Emor= y University) for the installation guide. I can pull the installation guide directly from the Wayback Machine and host it on Google code=2C but it wo= uld be nice to get the content off the old wiki in a more generic fashion. =20 I didn't receive any warning that this domain was going to be pulled=2C b= ut I'm also not on the old RD community or developer lists that used to be maintained by Emory. Anyone here at Code4Lib have any more information? =20 thanks! -emily =20 --=20 Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology=2C NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu = -- -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] Reservesdirect.org
Does anyone here know the disposition of reservesdirect.org? NCSU released an updated version of the ReservesDirect code last year on Google, but we had linked directly to the reservesdirect.org (used to be powered by Emory University) for the installation guide. I can pull the installation guide directly from the Wayback Machine and host it on Google code, but it would be nice to get the content off the old wiki in a more generic fashion. I didn't receive any warning that this domain was going to be pulled, but I'm also not on the old RD community or developer lists that used to be maintained by Emory. Anyone here at Code4Lib have any more information? thanks! -emily -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Online course reserve systems
Jean, We are actively using and developing ReservesDirect here at NCSU Libraries. I'd be happy to share our experiences with you (privately or publicly). We released a slightly updated version of the code in early 2011, since it's no longer being actively developed by Emory University. You can see more on Google code, in case you hadn't seen this yet. http://code.google.com/p/reservesdirect-ncsu/ Do you have any specific questions? -emily -- Date:Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:14:38 -0500 From:Rainwater, Jean jean_rainwa...@brown.edu Subject: Online course reserve systems We've used a home-grown course reserves system for text, audio, and video since 2003. That system is showing its age and we're exploring whether to replace or completely overhaul it. We know of ReservesDirect - are there other open source applications out there? If folks have experience with ReservesDirect and are willing to share that would be useful too. Thanks! Jean -- Jean Rainwater Head, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library 10 Prospect Street / Box A Providence, Rhode Island 02912 401.863.9031 jean_rainwa...@brown.edu -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] generating and parsing NCIP with PHP
Hi folks, We are working with Lehigh University on building out a more full-fledged SirsiDynix Symphony adapter to work with the XC NCIP toolkit. We will hopefully building our new Patron Account interface on top of the eXtensible Catalog NCIP toolkit. Obviously, to build our new interface on top of the NCIP toolkit, we need to generate NCIP XML requests and parse NCIP XML responses. These things are a bit gnarly to work with, and I'm not sure that PHP is exactly known for excellence in working with XML. Has anyone ever dabbled in this area before? Created an awesome PHP library we could just pick up and use? Have any particular pointers? We have Zend framework at our disposal in terms of PHP frameworks, and will likely be using that for this project. I don't know in particular if it has good XML parsing tools (my staff probably would), but even if it does, we still have to sort through the NCIP verbosity. Just thought I'd check. -emily
Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents and open source projects
Just wanted to say thanks for the many responses. You all are right that this issue is not specific to library software in specific. It's not often that I hear such a resounding agreement from all responders!! -emily On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Erik Hetzner erik.hetz...@ucop.edu wrote: At Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:17:26 -0500, Emily Lynema wrote: A colleague approached me this morning with an interesting question that I realized I didn't know how to answer. How are open source projects in the library community dancing around technologies that may have been patented by vendors? We were particularly wondering about this in light of open source ILS projects, like Kuali OLE, Koha, and Evergreen. I know OLE is still in the early stages, but did the folks who created Koha and Evergreen ever run into any problems in this area? Have library vendors historically pursued patents for their systems and solutions? I don’t think libraries have a particularly unique perspective on this: most free/open source software projects have the same issues with patents. The Software Freedom Law Center has some basic information about these issues. As I recall, the “Legal basics for developers” edition of their podcasts is useful [1], but other editions may be helpful as well. Basically, the standard advice for patents is what Mike Taylor gave: ignore them. Pay attention to copyright and trademark issues (as the Koha problem shows), but patents really don’t need to be on your radar. best, Erik 1. http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2011/aug/16/Episode-0x16-Legal-Basics-for-Developers/ Sent from my free software system http://fsf.org/.
[CODE4LIB] Patents and open source projects
A colleague approached me this morning with an interesting question that I realized I didn't know how to answer. How are open source projects in the library community dancing around technologies that may have been patented by vendors? We were particularly wondering about this in light of open source ILS projects, like Kuali OLE, Koha, and Evergreen. I know OLE is still in the early stages, but did the folks who created Koha and Evergreen ever run into any problems in this area? Have library vendors historically pursued patents for their systems and solutions?
Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries
Some folks have mentioned library-created APIs in this thread. A couple of staff here at NCSU Libraries wrote up a piece in the Code4Lib Journal (wow! back in 2007!) about the API we created for our catalog years ago and still use very heavily (for several apps not even developed yet when that article was written). http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10 Our locally developed ERM also provides a set of web services we use to populate our journal list and database finder on our public website. Externally, we use the standard set of freebies: Google Books, HathiTrust, Open Library, OCLC WorldCat API. We subscribe to Syndetics and use APIs (sort of) to pull in covers, contents, previews, etc. We also subscribe to Summon and use their API. Tempted to use Serials Solutions' 360 Link API to create our own version of the service window interface, but we've managed not to do that yet! -emily lynema NCSU Libraries -- Date:Sat, 8 Oct 2011 13:33:52 -0400 From:Michel, Jason Paul Subject: Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries Hello all, I'm a lurker on this listserv and am interested in gaining some insight int= o your experiences of utilizing web service APIs in either an academic libr= ary or public library setting. I'm writing a book for ALA Editions on the use of Web Service APIs in libra= ries. Each chapter covers a specific API by delineating the technicalities= of the API, discussing potential uses of the API in library settings, and = step-by-step tutorials. I'm already including examples of how my library (Miami University in Oxfor= d, Ohio) are utilizing these APIs but would like to give the reader more ex= amples from a variety of settings. APIs covered in the book: Flickr, Vimeo, Google Charts, Twitter, Open Libra= ry, LibraryThing, Goodreads, OCLC. So, what are you folks doing with APIs? Thanks for any insight! Kind regards, Jason -- Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries Oxford, Ohio 45044 twitter:jpmichel Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with DLF-ILS GetAvailability
can tell) only allows availabitlity to be specified at the level of items Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] automated access verification for electronic content
Our technical services staff have put together a proposal for a new workflow tool to help them with semi-comprehensive access verification for our electronic collection. The problem, apparently, is that while many libraries have used print serial check-in for years to ensure that print issues are received, similar workflows have never been put in place to verify that we have access to the electronic collections that we have purchased. And we spend more money on these collections than we do on print. Currently, there is a tool called SEESAU that was developed at Georgia and is used by staff to queue up resources for access verification on a regular basis and also provides a kind of integrated ticketing / bug tracking when problems are identified. Our staff is interested in doing something similar here at NCSU so that they have a mechanism (better than a spreadsheet) for proactively verifying that we still have access to the journals and years that we have subscribed to. It is apparently not uncommon for vendors to drop journals or date ranges from journals so that our patrons cannot access them even when we have paid for access. In addition, there are sometimes problems in our local systems that prevent access, like EZProxy configurations. While we could certainly build a workflow tool for our staff to do this, we wondered if there wasn't a clever, more automated solution that wouldn't require so much manual labor by techincal services staff. We are just bringing Nagios up for local system monitoring purposes, and while it could certainly be used for at least a small portion of this, the problem is that we would have to configure each journal manually in Nagios for it to check that the proper coverage years were provided (and this would break if the vendor re-designed its website). That would be a ton of manual work for the IT office when we subscribe to tens of thousands of journals. In addition, users can get authentication problems at MANY steps in the processeverywhere from the journal page in a vendor site down to when they click on the pdf for a single article itself. It seems like it would be very difficult to account for all of these possible problems within Nagios. Has anyone come up with a clever way to do this type of access verification that goes beyond just whether or not the vendor's site is responsive? thanks! -emily -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] ILS short list
SirsiDynix Symphony has a new Web Services platform that is being released in beta at this point. Full documentation is supposed to be available in 2010. It was used to enable the SirsiDynix iPhone app. I think it was built as a wrapper on top of their long-existing command line API tools. Feature set is supposed to include: * authenticated access to user account info and ability to place holds / renew items * new / popular title lists * bibliographic searching and display * item availability information I don't think this package requires additional $$, but I bet you do have to have already paid for API training. We haven't investigated that deeply with Sirsi yet. -emily -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu -- Date:Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:32:57 -0400 From:Ryan Eby ryan...@gmail.com Subject: Re: ILS short list It would probably be worth putting your findings on the code4lib wiki if you end up getting very far. I had started a list awhile ago but never got around to getting more info/completing it. Here's what I have so far based on talking with people. The information may be out of date: Evergreen and Koha both have database access and various API's. Not sure on the hosted liblime koha. Voyager *Export Built in. Can export Marc with bib, holdings and authorities records, though marc is often mangled (from person i talked to). *Database Access Built in. Uses Oracle and also provides entity-relationship diagrams and some pre-build views to help in development. Believe the oracle license is also included in the base price. Access is read-only. *API's and Web Services Built in. z39 access, however with SQL access you could likely build the API you need. Unicorn * Export Built in. MARC21 or flat file formats. Unicode support is available as an extra. * Database Access Mixed. No access to the embedded Informix database by default; API training is necessary for read-only access. Oracle is an extra option, but that only gives you a read-only license. For write access, you need a full Oracle license. SQL schema is supplied if you purchase API training. * API's and Web Services Mixed. Z39.50 is offered (not sure if it's an extra). API access is an extra - basically you pay for docs of Unix-like commands and the ability to pay for API support if you screw up. API training also gives you some access to the client/server wire protocol so you can roll your own. No Web services. Utterly unusable XML API (it basically wraps the wire protocol with no abstraction). Innovative * Export Built In. Can dump Marc or CSV files of specific field data * Database Access Extra. There is a Oracle option with an additional cost with the default being a proprietary database without access. From what I've heard the Oracle tables are not documented overly well. There also appears to be mysql used for some data as well. *API's and Web Services Extra. Z39 is offered as a product. There used to be an XML server but this appears to have been discontinued. There appears to be more web services in the works though they also appear to be additional products. XRecord is built in but doesn't easily allow access to attached items given a bib eby Anna Headley wrote: I am looking to find or create a shortlist of ILSes, open or proprietary, that provide API access to bibliographic and item-level data. �I am really only looking for ILSes that are used by academic libraries. Do you know of any resources that might be helpful? �I started with Marshall Breeding's 2009 Perceptions report, but it doesn't include much information about a given ILS. Or, do you use such an ILS in your library? So far my list is: Evergreen Thank you!! Anna
Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 29 Mar 2010 to 30 Mar 2010 (#2010-78)
Karen, This doesn't relate to the API specifically, but I'm very interested in the statement, Open Library now has Works defined. We've just recently encountered issues loading OCA records for journals we've scanned back into our local ILS, because we have to add an 856 for each journal volume that was scanned to the parent bibliographic record (in the most recent case, we had something like 160 856 fields in the record, which our ILS objected to). As in institution, we're not particularly interested in creating locally hosted splash pages for this digitized content. What seems like would make more sense for us is to link to a Work record in Open Library or Internet Archive which can then direct users to all volumes digitized for that Work. I searched this title in Open Library and found individual results for the various years of the journal, so it didn't seem like that kind of aggregated record was being exposed to users at this point. See here for an example: http://openlibrary.org/search?q=polytechnisches+Journal Do you think a Work record page in Open Library that we could link to from our local systems would be an effective solution to this problem? Anybody have other ideas? -emiliy CODE4LIB automatic digest system wrote: -- Date:Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:22:41 -0700 From:Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net Subject: Works API Open Library now has Works defined, and is looking to develop an API for their retrieval. It makes obvious sense that when a Work is retrieved via the API, that the data output would include links to the Editions that link to that Work. Here are a few possible options: 1) Retrieve Work information (author, title, subjects, possibly reviews, descriptions, first lines) alone 2) Retrieve Work information + OL identifiers for all related Editions 3) Retrieve Work information + OL identifiers + any other identifiers related to the Edition (ISBN, OCLC#, LCCN) 4) Retrieve Work information and links to Editions with full text / scans Well, you can see where I'm going with this. What would be useful? kc -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] custom interface to SirsiDynix user account features
I have vague dusty memories of someone saying (perhaps at a Code4Lib conference) that they had built a custom PHP (?) interface to the user account features for SirsiDynix Unicorn. Sirsi provides an API that I think could be used to do this, so that doesn't seem like a completely impossible thing to remember. We have finally 'turned off' our legacy OPAC here at NCSU Libraries (after almost 4 years of using Endeca) and would be interested in being able to turn off the legacy 'My Account' features as well, in particular if someone had already built an application we could borrow from. Thought I'd throw this out to see if anyone else remembers the same conversation. -emily -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] Position available: Lead Developer - NCSU Libraries, IT Department – Raleigh, NC
Note: Feel free to contact me with any questions about this position (emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu). We intend to move quickly and are already reviewing resumes, so please send me an email if you think you might apply. We would love to bring in someone with previous library experience! -emily lynema Working Title: Lead Developer Position Title: Business Technology Applications Specialist The NC State University Libraries seeks an experienced developer to help lead development efforts within the IT department. This development unit is responsible for supporting the core information systems in the library, from building and maintaining enterprise-level applications to implementing and supporting open source and vendor solutions. The lead developer will serve as the technical backbone of a unit with 3 developers. He or she will have primary oversight over E-Matrix, an electronic resources and serials management system built in-house at NCSU Libraries, and will also be a key participant in design, testing, and implementation for the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) project (NCSU Libraries is a partner in this Mellon-funded project). In addition, he or she will have the opportunity to work on a variety of other projects such as the ReservesDirect open source course reserves system, a new administrative information system being built in-house, and new/evolving discovery layer tools and mobile applications. Responsibilities include designing and developing applications, helping manage projects and deadlines, providing technical leadership for junior developers, serving as technical lead on business-focused product management teams, and investigating new technologies. As lead developer, this position is responsible for helping architect, design, and plan for all new development within the unit. We are looking for someone who would be able to jump right into learning a complex enterprise-level application built using Java (Hibernate and Spring) and PostgreSQL. Other supported tools within this unit utilize MySQL, PHP, and Python, so our preferred candidate would be someone excited about working across a variety of technologies. Experience with application and database design is a must. Knowledge of code management repositories (Subversion) is a plus. Must have good communication skills, the ability to participate in a team development environment, and a willingness to learn about library metadata and business processes. Salary is based on experience and qualifications, but expected hiring range is $75,000 – 80,000. NCSU Libraries is a fast-paced, innovative environment with no shortage of interesting problems to solve. For a detailed list of required and preferred skills or to apply, visit http://jobs.ncsu.edu and search for position #40024. Position is currently available, and will remain open until filled. Review of applications is ongoing. -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?
If you are looking for abstract reasons to determine which programming tool to use for a library project, it's worth considering long term support for your institution. If the future technical support at your institution is 1 librarian-turned-coder (and you don't have strong personal preferences), you might want to think about which languages/tools/frameworks are commonly available amongst this pool (I think you'll find PHP/Ruby much more often than Java, for example). That way your institution isn't up-a-creek when you leave and they hire your replacement. -emily lynema NCSU Libraries 2010/1/6 Alejandro Garza Gonzalez alejandro.ga...@itesm.mx Well, I'll quickly run down why we chose Drupal (hence, PHP). I mention Drupal because to me it's more of a framework which just happens to have a CMS built on top of it =) Before Drupal, my team knew PHP. We had PHP books in the library, students were learning some PHP in classes, etc. We were lured to Drupal because other libraries were using it (AADL at the time). It seemed to have good code, good security, and could be hacked politely (or extended) and securely (if you follow the rules). Most of all, Drupal has good people behind it =) Now, even though Drupal is PHP (and, as some say, PHP lets you be as insecure and as bad a coder you want...) the code that goes into its core has pretty strict coding standards. Of course you can find lots of modules which are not up to par, but you can depend on core to be tight. _alejandro marijane white said the following on 05/01/2010 05:04 p.m.: Greetings Code4Lib, Long time lurker, first time poster here. I've been turning over this question in my mind for a few weeks now, and Joe Hourcle's postscript in the Online PHP Course thread has prompted me to finally try to ask it. =) I'm interested in hearing how the members of this list have gone about choosing development platforms for their library coding projects and/or existing open source projects (ie like VuFind vs Blacklight). For example, did you choose a language you already were familiar with? One you wanted to learn more about? Does your workplace have a standard enterprise architecture/platform that you are required to use? If you have chosen to implement an existing open source project, did you choose based on the development platform or project maturity and features or something else? Some background -- thanks to my undergraduate computer engineering studies, I have a pretty solid understanding of programming fundamentals, but most of my pre-LIS work experience was in software testing and did not require me to employ much of what I learned programming-wise, so I've mostly dabbled over the last decade or so. I've got a bit of experience with a bunch of languages and I'm not married to any of them. I also kind of like having excuses to learn new ones. My situation is this: I would like to eventually implement a discovery tool at MPOW, but I am having a hell of a time choosing one. I'm a solo librarian on a content team at a software and information services company, so I'm not really tied to the platforms used by the software engineering teams here. I know a bit of Ruby, so I've played with Blacklight some, got it to install on Windows and managed to import a really rough Solr index. I'm more attracted to the features in VuFind, but I don't know much PHP yet and I haven't gotten it installed successfully yet. My collection's metadata is not in an ILS (yet) and not in MARC, so I've also considered trying out more generic approaches like ajax-solr (though I don't know a lot of javascript yet, either). I've also given a cursory look at SOPAC and Scriblio. My options are wide open, and I'm having a rough time deciding what direction to go in. I guess it's kind of similar to someone who is new to programming and attempting to choose their first language to learn. I will attempt to head off a programming language religious war =) by stating that I'm not really interested in the virtues of one platform over another, moreso the abstract reasons one might have for selecting one. Have any of you ever been in a similar situation? How'd you get yourself unstuck? If you haven't, what do you think you might do in a situation like mine? -marijane -- _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *Ing. Alejandro Garza González* Coordinación de proyectos y desarrollo de sistemas Centro in...@te, Centro para la Innovación en Tecnología y Educación Tecnológico de Monterrey Tel. +52 [81] 8358.2000, Ext. 6751 Enlace intercampus: 80.689.6751, 80.788.6106 http://www.itesm.mx/innovate/ El contenido de este mensaje de datos no se considera oferta, propuesta o acuerdo, sino hasta que sea confirmado en documento por escrito que contenga la firma autógrafa del apoderado legal del ITESM. El contenido de este mensaje de datos es confidencial y se entiende dirigido y para uso exclusivo
[CODE4LIB] Blacklight + Summon at UVA
In a recent Chronicle article about next generation catalogs, which also talks about Summon, [1] I saw a comment about the University of Virginia developing a mobile service which presents integrated results from Serials Solutions Summon and Blacklight. That comment has been removed from the article (weird!), but I also see a note about this on the UVA mobile site [2]. I am curious about how this will be accomplished, and figuring there are at least a couple of representatives on this from Virginia. Is this problem being solved by adding catalog records to Summon, or is there something more complicated happening? It initially sounded to me like there was integration of results across Summon and Blacklight happening, but it looks like perhaps I misread? Regardless, any clues on when the new mobile site will be available? thanks! -emily [1] http://chronicle.com/article/After-Losing-Users-in/48588/ [2] http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/mobile/ -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] Position available: Lead Developer - NCSU Libraries – Raleigh, NC
Note: Feel free to contact me with any questions about this position (emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu). We intend to move quickly and are already reviewing resumes, so please send me an email if you think you might apply. -emily lynema Working Title: Lead Developer Position Title: Business Technology Applications Specialist The NC State University Libraries seeks an experienced developer to help lead development efforts within the IT department. This development unit is responsible for supporting the core information systems in the library, from building and maintaining enterprise-level applications to implementing and supporting open source and vendor solutions. The lead developer will serve as the technical backbone of a unit with 3 developers. He or she will have primary oversight over E-Matrix, an electronic resources and serials management system built in-house at NCSU Libraries and will play a key role in efforts to make E-Matrix available as an open source project in the future. In addition, this position will have the opportunity to work on a variety of other projects including an open source course reserves system created at Emory University (ReservesDirect) and a new administrative information system being designed from the ground up. Responsibilities include designing and developing applications, managing projects and deadlines, providing technical mentoring for 2 junior developers, serving as technical lead on business-focused product management teams, and investigating new technologies. As lead developer, this position is responsible for helping architect, design, and plan for all new development within the unit. We are looking for someone who would be able to jump right into learning a complex enterprise-level application built on top of PostgreSQL, Java (Hibernate and Spring), XML/JSON web services, and ExtJS. Other supported tools within this unit also utilize MySQL and PHP. Experience with application and database design is a must. Knowledge of code management repositories (Subversion) is a plus. Must have good communication skills, the ability to participate in a team development environment, and a willingness to learn about library metadata and business processes. Salary is based on experience and qualifications, but expected hiring range is $75,000 – 80,000. NCSU Libraries is a fast-paced, innovative environment with no shortage of interesting problems to solve. For a detailed list of required and preferred skills or to apply, visit http://jobs.ncsu.edu and search for position #40024. Position is currently available, and will remain open until filled. Review of applications is ongoing. -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] Call for participation in National Libraries testing of RDA
Hi folks, I'm passing this on for Dianne McCutcheon at the National Library of Medicine. They're looking for technical folks to help dig into testing RDA to determine whether it'll really enable library metadata to be used across systems more effectively, and better support discovery. I hope there are some folks who'd be interested in participating! -emily lynema --- The Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library and the National Library of Medicine have jointly decided to test Resource Description and Access (RDA), the proposed new cataloging code, before making a decision on whether or not to implement this new standard. See the joint statement and accompanying letter from Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress for more details: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/RDA_Letter_050108.pdf We plan to include members of the U.S. library community as well as ILS vendors and OCLC, in the testing. We are also interested in including developers from the code4lib and NGC4Lib communities who could help evaluate the assertion that RDA will allow the data produced to function within a wide range of technological environments and better support resource discovery. The test period will begin after RDA is released, currently targeted for July 2009. We are in the process of developing the methodology for testing and would welcome input from testing partners. If you are interested in participating, or have a suggestion of someone we should contact, please e-mail one of the national library contacts: Dianne McCutcheon (NLM) mccu...@nlm.nih.gov, Christopher Cole (NAL) christopher.c...@ars.usda.gov or Beacher Wiggins (LC) b...@loc.gov. Regards, Dianne McCutcheon Chief, Technical Services Division National Library of Medicine Bethesda MD 20894 (301) 496-6134 (301) 402-1211 (fax) mccu...@mail.nlm.nih.gov
Re: [CODE4LIB] creating call number browse
Well, we're using LC and SUDOC here. What I really want is something that is both searchable and browsable, so that users can type in a call number and then browse backward and forward as much as they want in call number order. We have Endeca here, so my patrons can browse into the LC scheme and then sort the results in call number order, but I don't have a way to browse forward and backward starting with a specific call number (like you would if you were browsing the shelves physically). -emily Keith Jenkins wrote: Emily, Are you using LC or Dewey? A while back, I wanted to generate browsable lists of new books, organized by topic. I ended up using the LC call number to group the titles into manageable groups. Here's an example: http://supportingcast.mannlib.cornell.edu/newbooks/?loc=mann Titles are sorted by call number, and also grouped by the initial letters of the LC classification, such as Q or QL. For monthly lists of new books, most groupings usually have less than 20 titles, which makes for easy browsing of titles within someone's general subject of interest. The Table of Contents at the top of the page only lists those classifications that are present in the set of titles currently being viewed. (In an earlier version, Q would only be split into QA, QB, etc. if there were more than 20 items with Q call numbers.) Things do tend to get a bit out of control in some of the classifications for literature... no one wants to scan through a list of 452 titles: http://supportingcast.mannlib.cornell.edu/newbooks/?class=PL So for entire collections, a lot more work would be needed to create finer subgroups, since each classification is uniquely complex. For example: PL1-8844 : Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-481 : Ural-Altaic languages PL21-396 : Turkic languages PL400-431 : Mongolian languages PL450-481 : Tungus Manchu languages (An idea... maybe it would work to simply forget about pre-determined, named call number ranges and look for natural breaks in the call numbers, rather than trying to model the intricate details of each individual classification schedule.) The site runs on a set of MARC records extracted from the catalog. Users can also subscribe to RSS feeds for any combination of location, language, or classification group. I did some early experimentation to include cover images, but never seemed to get enough matches to make that worthwhile. Keith Keith Jenkins GIS/Geospatial Applications Librarian Mann Library, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Emily Lynema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I would love to tackle the issue of creating a really cool call number browse tool that utilizes book covers, etc. However, I'd like to do this outside of my ILS/OPAC. What I don't know is whether there are any indexing / SQL / query techniques that could be used to browse forward and backword in an index like this. Has anyone else worked on developing a tool like this outside of the OPAC? I guess I would be perfectly happy even if it was something I could build directly on top of the ILS database and its indexes (we use SirsiDynix Unicorn). I wanted to throw a feeler out there before trying to dream up some wild scheme on my own. -emily P.S. The version of BiblioCommons released at Oakville Public Library has a sweet call number browse function accessible from the full record page. I would love to know know how that was accomplished. http://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1413841_mars -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] creating call number browse
Hey all, I would love to tackle the issue of creating a really cool call number browse tool that utilizes book covers, etc. However, I'd like to do this outside of my ILS/OPAC. What I don't know is whether there are any indexing / SQL / query techniques that could be used to browse forward and backword in an index like this. Has anyone else worked on developing a tool like this outside of the OPAC? I guess I would be perfectly happy even if it was something I could build directly on top of the ILS database and its indexes (we use SirsiDynix Unicorn). I wanted to throw a feeler out there before trying to dream up some wild scheme on my own. -emily P.S. The version of BiblioCommons released at Oakville Public Library has a sweet call number browse function accessible from the full record page. I would love to know know how that was accomplished. http://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1413841_mars -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] REMINDER: Code4Lib Journal call for proposals, December issue, due 9/12
Just a reminder...proposals for the December 2008 issue of the Code4Lib Journal are due September 12, one week from this Friday. A first full draft of the article itself will not be due until October 17, so you still have some time to work. Consider yourself encouraged to submit a proposal! -emily lynema coordinating editor, issue 5 Original Message Subject: Code4Lib Journal call for proposals, December issue Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:35:01 -0400 From: Emily Lynema [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Code for Libraries CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Call for Submissions: The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future. The Code4Lib Journal is now accepting proposals for publication in its 5th issue. Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences in an issue that marks the first full year of publication for this new journal. To be included in the 5th issue, scheduled for publication in December 2008, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Friday, September 12, 2008. When submitting, please include the title or subject of the proposal in the subject line of the message. C4LJ encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics that support the mission of the journal. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Practical applications of library technology (both actual and hypothetical) * Technology projects (failed, successful, proposed, or in-progress), including how they were done and challenges faced * Case studies * Best practices * Reviews * Comparisons of third party software or libraries * Analyses of library metadata for use with technology * Project management and communication within the library environment * Assessment and user studies C4LJ strives to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication. While articles should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure. Writers should aim for the middle ground between blog posts and articles in traditional refereed journals. Where appropriate, we encourage authors to submit code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code. For more information, visit C4LJ's Article Guidelines or browse articles from the first 3 issues published on our website: http://journal.code4lib.org. The 4th issue will be available in September. Remember, for consideration for the 5th issue, please send proposals, abstracts, or draft articles to [EMAIL PROTECTED] no later than Friday, September 12, 2008. Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing. Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Innovative DLF ILS-DI code WAS: [CODE4LIB] Update: DLF ILS-DI Developers' Workshop Aug 7
David, 2 email lists that you can start with, although neither one of them is truly a place to discuss implementation issues. 1. The ILS-DI discussion list on google. See http://groups.google.com/group/ils-di. I created this group to foment discussion surrounding the technical recommendation being developed by DLF's ILS Discovery Interface Task Group (now published on the DLF site). We have not had a lot of technical discussion on this list in the past, but we certainly could. 2. The jangle-discuss discussion list on google. See http://groups.google.com/group/jangle-discuss There's lots of technical discussion going on on this list. Jangle is really not an implementation of ILS-DI, but they are interested in using ILS-DI connectors to the local ILSs. It's an interesting conversation, regardless. Personally, I'd like to see Jangle *be* an implementation of ILS-DI, but I know Ross wants to have a little more freedom to develop a uniform interface. -emily Walker, David wrote: Hi all, I'm working on converting a screen-scraping class, written in PHP, I have for looking-up bib and availability information in an Innovative systems to the new ILS-DI specification, and had a couple of questions: 1. Is there a place (other than the workshop) to discuss issues or questions I might have? A listserv perhaps? 2. Is anyone else thinking about, or currently working on, an implementation for Innovative? Since the company has not agreed to work with the library community on this, we're kind of on our own. I've got a pretty good scraper that can accommodate most of the abstract functions in the spec. But wanted to see if others did too, so we might combine efforts. Thanks! --Dave == David Walker Library Web Services Manager California State University http://xerxes.calstate.edu From: Code for Libraries [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emily Lynema [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:22 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Update: DLF ILS-DI Developers' Workshop Aug 7 Now that the DLF technical recommendation is officially published [1], DLF is trying to help maintain momentum and build a community of implementation around this project. Toward that end, an ILS-DI Developers' Workshop has been organized in August for folks to hash out questions and answers about implementing the first level of the recommendation, Basic Discovery Interfaces. While this meeting is invitation only to keep the size down, feel free to let me know if you are involved in this type of implementation and think you could contribute to this meeting. Of course, a summary of the outcome of the meeting will be made available in its aftermath. It is even possible there may be some suggested revisions or clarifications to the recommendation as we actually begin to write code. I've included the text of the original inviitation below for all to see. We hope to keep this topic of APIs and interoperability for our integrated library systems fresh on your mind, especially as some many of you are building these types of APIs literally as we speak -emily lynema [1] http://diglib.org/architectures/ilsdi/ - Greetings - As you may know, the Digital Library Federation has released the technical recommendation of its ILS Discovery Interface (ILS-DI) Task Group. This document recommends basic, standard interfaces -- known as the Berkeley Accord -- for integrating the data and services of integrated library systems (ILS) with new applications supporting user discovery. The documentation is available at : http://diglib.org/architectures/ilsdi/ . The basic discovery interfaces permit libraries to deploy new discovery services to meet ever-growing user expectations in the Web 2.0 era, take full advantage of advanced ILS data management and services, and encourage a strong, innovative community and marketplace in next-generation library management and discovery applications. DLF is planning a developer's workshop for Thursday, August 7, at the Berkeley Faculty Club on the UC Berkeley campus, in which parties supporting the Basic Discovery Interfaces can learn more about the interfaces and how they should be implemented, meet with potential development partners, and begin the formation of a community building effective software services. Because of the nature of this meeting, we recommend that staff with a high degree of technical knowledge of your platform and bibliographic standards and protocols receive priority for attendance. The Berkeley Accord and the DLF ILS-DI recommendation are important first steps in building advanced, interoperable architectures for bibliographic discovery and use in the networked world. -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian
Re: [CODE4LIB] implementing cool uris in java
Thanks for the replies, everybody! I'm going to take a look at the Url Rewrite Filter pointed out by Peter Kiraly because it looks like the simplest solution at this point. We're currently running under glassfish on port 80, so I'm hoping to keep Apache out of the mix unless we absolutely need it. -emily Emily Lynema wrote: Original Message -- Date:Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:22:07 -0400 From:Emily Lynema [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: implementing cool uris in java I'm looking around for tools to implement cool uris in java. I've been studying the restlet framework tonight, and while it sounds cool, I think it would also require a complete re-write of an application that is currently based on the Servlet API. And, of course, I'm working under a time crunch. Is there anything out there to assist me in working with cool uris besides just using regular expressions when parsing URLs? For example, I'd like to create URLs like: http://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/record/123456 instead of: http://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/record?id=1234565 -emily -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Course reserves management
NC State Univ. Libraries is also beginning work on implementing ReservesDirect. I think we hope for a trial with a few courses this summer, and implementation for fall. -emily lynema -- Date:Thu, 6 Mar 2008 18:02:48 -0500 From:Ranti Junus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open Source Course reserves management We (Michigan State University Libraries) looked into the possibility of implementing this a few years ago, but the final decision was to utilize the university's course management system instead. ranti. On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Jeffrey Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why am I not surprised to learn that you were the original author ;-) There is no indication of any use outside of Emory. Are other sites using it? Ross Singer wrote: Jeffrey, Take a look at Reserves Direct from Emory: http://reservesdirect.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page -Ross. On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Jeffrey Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone aware of a standalone or add-on open source package for managing electronic and/or digital course reserves? A commercial offering in this area is Aries, but it is not customizable to our needs. Most useful features are monitoring for multiple use of same article or chapter and efficient copyright clearance. -- Bulk mail. Postage paid. -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] musing on oca apiRe: [CODE4LIB] oca api?
Tim, It sounds like you want to be able to search on standard identifiers and are frustrated that the Internet Archive's access doesn't allow it (although it looks like they do have an ISBN search)? And I'm curious, why would you want or need to pull down only records that have OCLC numbers of ISBNs in particular? What is it you need to do that makes only those records useful? Like Karen and Bess and others have said, I recommend that you coordinate this with the Open Library project. At the meeting last Friday, it did sound like they would be interested in providing identifier disambiguation types of service - give them an ISBN, and they'll give you the records associated with it. Also, there was discussion about building an Open Librar yAPI (to enable some cool integration with wikipedia), and I suggested a that libraries using an API would want the search results to include information about whether the title has a digitized copy. So I would hope the service that you're envisioning is something that would be provided by an Open Library API (but we don't know when that might come about). As OCA moves forward, folks may well be digitizing identical books. So there may not be a one to one relationship between unique catalog identifier, unique oca identifier, and isbn/lccn/oclc number. -emily -- Date:Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:47:04 -0500 From:Tim Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: musing on oca apiRe: [CODE4LIB] oca api? Howdy folks, I've been playing and thinking. I'd like to have what amounts to a unique identifier index to oca digitized texts. I want to be able to pull all the records that have oclc numbers, issns, isbns, etc. I want it to be lightweight, fast, searchable. Would anyone else want/use such a thing? I'm thinking about building something like this. If I do, it would be ideal if wouldn't be a duplication of effort, so anyone got this in the works? And if it would meet the needs of others. My basic notion is to crawl the site (starting with americana, the American Libraries. Pull the oca unique identifier (e.g. northcarolinayea1910rale) and associate it with unique identifiers (oclc numbers, issns, isbns, lc numbers) contributing institution's alias and unique catalog identifier upload date That's all I was thinking of. Then there's what you might be able to do with it: Give me all the oca unique identifiers that have oclc numbers Give me all the oca unique identifiers with isbns that were uploaded between x and y date Give me the oca unique identifier for this oclc number Planning to do: keep crawling it and keep it up to date. Things I wasn't planning to do: worry about other unique ids (you'd have to go to xISBN or ThingISBN yourself) worry about storing anything else from oca. It would be good for being able to add an 856 to matches in your catalog. It would not be good for grabbing all marc records for all of oca. Anyhow, is this duplication of effort? Would you like something like this? What else would you like it to do (keeping in mind this is an unfunded pet project)? How would you want to talk to it? I was thinking of a web service, but hadn't thought too much about how to query it or how I'd deliver results. Of course I'm being an idiot and trying out new tools at the same time (python to see what the buzz is all about, sqlite just to learn it (it may not work out)). Thoughts? Vicious criticism? -t -- Date:Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:05:41 -0500 From:Jodi Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: musing on oca apiRe: [CODE4LIB] oca api? Great idea, Tim! The open library tech list that Bess mentions is [EMAIL PROTECTED], described at http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech -Jodi Jodi Schneider Science Library Specialist Amherst College 413-542-2076 -- Date:Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:32:43 -0800 From:Karen Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: musing on oca apiRe: [CODE4LIB] oca api? We talked about something like this at the Open Library meeting last Friday. The ol list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (join at http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-lib). I think of this as a (or one or more) translate service between IDs. It's a realization that we will never have a unique ID that everyone agrees on, that most bibliographic items are really more than one thing, but that since we have data about the bibliographic item we have many opportunities to make connections even though people have used different identifiers. So we could use an ID-switcher to move among data stores and services. Is that the kind of thing you are thinking of? kc -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] CORRECTION: DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force API recommendations
Thanks to Godmar Back for letting me know that the email list I alluded to in my original post below is not actually open to posting by non-members. Oops! We have now created a completely open google group to invite public feedback and participation. Feel free to simply send a message [1] or to join the list [2] so you can monitor posts by others. -emily [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2] http://groups.google.com/group/ils-di Original Message Subject: DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force API recommendations Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:30:04 -0500 From: Emily Lynema [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: NCSU Libraries To: Code for Libraries CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Just to keep interested folks up to date, the DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force [1],[2] has released a second draft of an API recommendation that will hopefully serve as a first step toward more standardized integration between the ILS and external discovery applications. (The first draft went out to the DLF community in early November). Terry Reese and I (both task force members) will be presenting on this topic next week at code4lib [3], and hopefully also hosting a breakout session on Wednesday inviting feedback and comments on the draft. We're looking forward to insight from the library development community on workable functions and standards and ideas about how we can actually create these types of open APIs for our ILSs. Since we can't really cover the nuances of a 43 page draft in a 20 minute presentation, we invite you to peruse a copy of the draft [4] on the plane so you can point out all the sections where we didn't get things quite right (or got them quite wrong). We are also soliciting feedback from the broader library community [5] , so feel free to post a comment on our wiki [6] or send an email to us [7] if you won't be at code4lib this year. -emily [1] http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2007/06/26/abstracting_the_ils [2] https://project.library.upenn.edu/confluence/display/ilsapi/Home [3] http://code4lib.org/conference/2008/lynema [4] http://project.library.upenn.edu/confluence/download/attachments/5963787/ILS-DI-Snapshot-2008-Feb15.doc [5] http://everybodyslibraries.com/2008/02/15/and-now-your-turn-to-have-a-say-in-ils-interfaces/ [6] https://project.library.upenn.edu/confluence/display/ilsapi/Draft+Recommendation [7] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2008: Haunted Tours, Breakout sessions, Signups for dinners, and, reminders
Just to put in a plug for one other non-traditional social activity we're hoping to pull off. There are plans for a trail run on Wednesday morning around 7am. It'll be a good break from the beer drinking and coding, so come to the conference prepared with your running shoes! Details are listed under Outdoor Activities on the 'things to do, places to go' page: http://groups.google.com/group/code4libcon/web/portland-in-late-february Contact Mark Dahl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you have any questions. I actually know nothing, other than the fact I'm planning on joining the group. :) -emily -- Date:Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:34:49 -0600 From:Jonathan Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Code4Lib 2008: Haunted Tours, Breakout sessions, Signups for dinners, and reminders Hi all, I thought I would send out another update on some of the social activities. Hopefully most people got the email recently about a Haunted Tour. If you didn't, and are interested I've included the text at the bottom of this email. We have only had a trickle of signups for the tour so far and if we don't get more conference services may end up cancelling it. So try to sign up in the next few days if you're interested. Some may remember earlier I was talking about the Shanghai Tunnel Tour (http://cgsstore.tripod.com/id18.html/index.html) and that this isn't quite the same one. There was a miscommunication somewhere along the process and we ended up with this tour. If anyone feels like they would actually go on that one but not the Haunted Tour let me know. If you prefer eating and drinking to walking though, don't feel obliged to sign up ;). Meanwhile, I'll be compiling a list of dinner places that have been posted at various spots and we'll try to start setting up ways for individuals and groups to let people know where they are planning on eating dinner. (It's optional, but it could help us from flooding a place or at least not be surprised when it's full). We'll hopefully have those up soon. I've been asked to remind people about the breakout sessions. For those who haven't attended previous years, breakout sessions are a pretty loose block of time where a group may gather for a more involved presentation, a group discussion, or create some piece of software. Want to take on Casey Durfee and do a whole ILS in 250 lines or less? Want to talk about Library 3.2? See who can gather the most MARC records in the shortest amount of time? Discuss the impact of archiving of valuable digital historical materials such as Breakout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout)? Suggest them on the breakout signup sheet at http://code4lib.org/conference/2008/breakout. As a reminder, we've got some interesting lists for social activities created by volunteers: Things to do, places to go http://groups.google.com/group/code4libcon/web/portland-in-late-february Some information gathered about size of certain places http://groups.google.com/group/code4libcon/web/possible-code4lib-dinner-locations A map of interesting spots http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=enie=UTF8msa=0msid=107913207927802716313.0004447d18ac57a8c07d8z=12om=0 Till next time, Jon Gorman == About Haunted Tour = Interested in seeing a different side of Portland! Let off some steam after a long day at the conference by going on a spooky walking tour! Recognized by USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Fox TV as the Best City Tour. Wednesday February 27 at 6:30pm. For a complete description, visit the website at http://www.portlandwalkingtours.com/tours/bizarre.htm There are only 25 spots available, cost is $20 per person. Please sign up using our registration system, payment will only be accepted by Visa, MasterCard or Discover. https://secure.oregonstate.edu/ocs/register.php?event=290 -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] z39.50 holdings schema
Anybody in this group have any experience using / implementing the z39.50 holdings schema? http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/holdings1-4.html As part of the DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force, we are looking for a good schema to define holdings and item-related information (such as circulation status). While MARCXML is always an option for MARC holdings, I have the sense (aka, I know) that not all institutions / ILSs create MARC holdings for all records. So it would be nice to have a schema into which it would be easy to translate either a MARC holdings record or just local holdings stored in some other way + circulation information. The rumor on the street is that z39.50 holdings schema is too complex and has never really been used. Anyone want to confirm or deny? I'm also interested in the up and coming ISO Holdings Schema (ISO 20775) that it sounds like has been motivated along by OCLC-PICA. But I don't have much information on that, so I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who knows more about that one, as well. Thanks, -emily -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] [Fwd: z39.50 holdings schema]
Wow, I've never sent a message accidentally when trying to copy-paste before. It must be a Monday morning. I meant to include the URL to just about the only (promising-sounding) snippet of information I've found about the ISO Holdings Schema: http://www.oclcpica.org/dasat/index.php?cid=100867conid=102196 -emily Original Message Subject: z39.50 holdings schema Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:41:53 -0500 From: Emily Lynema [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: NCSU Libraries To: Code for Libraries CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Anybody in this group have any experience using / implementing the z39.50 holdings schema? http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/holdings1-4.html As part of the DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force, we are looking for a good schema to define holdings and item-related information (such as circulation status). While MARCXML is always an option for MARC holdings, I have the sense (aka, I know) that not all institutions / ILSs create MARC holdings for all records. So it would be nice to have a schema into which it would be easy to translate either a MARC holdings record or just local holdings stored in some other way + circulation information. The rumor on the street is that z39.50 holdings schema is too complex and has never really been used. Anyone want to confirm or deny? I'm also interested in the up and coming ISO Holdings Schema (ISO 20775) that it sounds like has been motivated along by OCLC-PICA. But I don't have much information on that, so I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who knows more about that one, as well. Thanks, -emily -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] LC class scheme in XML or spreadsheet?
Since Kevin and Tod were interested in the data, I've uploaded to the web. You can download either the Access database or the tab-delimited data export from here: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/ejlynema/lc/ I noted on the page that this data is only available for public domain use within the US (according to my understanding of the copyright). So I guess if you wanted to use it outside of the US, you'd need to contact LC regarding permission. Maybe someone else can correct me if I'm wrong on that. I noticed the the tab-delimited export doesn't include the column headers, so you may need to look at the database to figure out what's going on. It's pretty self-explanatory, except the last column of data represents the level within the hierarchy for the call number range. Let me know if anybody has questions. -emily Kevin S. Clarke wrote: I'd be interested in seeing it. Thanks, Kevin On 9/26/07, Emily Lynema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have the LC data. Right now it's in an Access database that includes the start and end of each call number range, and its level in the hierarchy. Which, of course, can become a number of other data formats as desired. :) I've exported it as delimited text to parse into XML via Perl in the past (unfortunately that XML format is proprietary and not useful to others). I don't have it posted for download anywhere, but could do if folks are interested. -emily -- Date:Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:18:40 -0400 From:Ed Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LC class scheme in XML or spreadsheet? It's funny this subject just came up on one of the open-library discussion lists this week [1]. A whiles ago now Rob Sanderson, Brian Rhea (University of Liverpool) and I pulled down the LC Classification Outline pdf files, converted them to text, wrote a python munger to convert the text into what ended up being a SKOS RDF file. We made the code available [2] and you can see the resulting SKOS (which needs some URI work) [3]. It's kind of a work in progress (still). I wanted to get to the point that the rdf file was leveraged in a little python library (possibly as a pickled data structure) for easily validating LC numbers and looking them up in the outline. I'd be interested in any feedback. //Ed [1] http://mail.archive.org/pipermail/ol-lib/2007-September/69.html [2] http://inkdroid.org/svn/lcco-skos/trunk/rdfizer/ [3] http://inkdroid.org/tmp/lcco.rdf -- End of CODE4LIB Digest - 21 Sep 2007 to 24 Sep 2007 (#2007-184) *** -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] LC class scheme in XML or spreadsheet?
I also have the LC data. Right now it's in an Access database that includes the start and end of each call number range, and its level in the hierarchy. Which, of course, can become a number of other data formats as desired. :) I've exported it as delimited text to parse into XML via Perl in the past (unfortunately that XML format is proprietary and not useful to others). I don't have it posted for download anywhere, but could do if folks are interested. -emily -- Date:Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:18:40 -0400 From:Ed Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LC class scheme in XML or spreadsheet? It's funny this subject just came up on one of the open-library discussion lists this week [1]. A whiles ago now Rob Sanderson, Brian Rhea (University of Liverpool) and I pulled down the LC Classification Outline pdf files, converted them to text, wrote a python munger to convert the text into what ended up being a SKOS RDF file. We made the code available [2] and you can see the resulting SKOS (which needs some URI work) [3]. It's kind of a work in progress (still). I wanted to get to the point that the rdf file was leveraged in a little python library (possibly as a pickled data structure) for easily validating LC numbers and looking them up in the outline. I'd be interested in any feedback. //Ed [1] http://mail.archive.org/pipermail/ol-lib/2007-September/69.html [2] http://inkdroid.org/svn/lcco-skos/trunk/rdfizer/ [3] http://inkdroid.org/tmp/lcco.rdf -- End of CODE4LIB Digest - 21 Sep 2007 to 24 Sep 2007 (#2007-184) *** -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] Position: Endeca Implementation Librarian (Research Triangle Park, NC)
This announcement has been cross-posted to multiple lists. My apologies for the duplication. This position will work closely with my position. Please feel free to contact me directly with any questions. *** POSITION: TRLN Endeca Implementation Librarian *12-month Fixed Term Appointment* AVAILABLE: March 1, 2007 The Triangle Research Libraries Network seeks a motivated, innovative, collaborative, and knowledgeable individual to work with the member libraries to develop a next-generation consortial library catalog. The position offers an excellent opportunity to work with talented staff across four research institutions. The new catalog will be based on the award-winning Endeca Information Access Platform and will greatly enhance access to the combined TRLN resources. The TRLN Endeca Implementation Librarian will serve as technical lead for the implementation of a shared library catalog across the collections of the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Duke University, North Carolina State University, and North Carolina Central University. The Implementation Librarian will work directly with cross-institutional teams to identify data and user interface requirements, and with technical staff at Endeca to implement the capabilities of the system. The Implementation Librarian will also be responsible for building back-end server processes and developing the front-end user interface (Java). QUALIFICATIONS Required • ALA-accredited Masters degree or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience • Experience programming with Java • Experience developing web sites including XHTML, CSS, and Javascript • Knowledge of library metadata formats, particularly MARC • Facility with Unix/Linux operating system in a server environment • Working knowledge of a scripting language • Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative team environment Preferred • Experience creating Java web applications using a JSP/Java Bean/Servlet framework • Experience with Perl scripting language • Demonstrated project management skills • Familiarity with integrated library systems TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK Founded in 1977 and based on cooperation among academic research libraries of the Research Triangle dating back to 1933, Triangle Research Libraries Network is a resource-sharing consortium consisting of Duke University, North Carolina Central University (NCCU), North Carolina State University (NCSU), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill). The libraries of the four institutions encompass collections of professional schools in business, law, and health sciences, in addition to major research resources in the humanities, social sciences, engineering, sciences, and technology. The member libraries have combined holdings approaching twelve million volumes, employ over a thousand staff, and have budgets totaling in excess of sixty million dollars. THE UNIVERSITY AND THE LIBRARIES The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosts the TRLN offices and is the country’s oldest state university. UNC Chapel Hill has an enrollment of approximately 27,000 students, employs more than 3,100 faculty, offers 77 doctoral degrees as well as professional degrees in dentistry, medicine, pharmacy and law; and the Library collections include over 5.7 million volumes. The Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) and SOLINET. The Triangle region is one of the most desirable places to live and work in North America and offers its residents a wide array of recreational, cultural and intellectual activities. The mountains and the seashore are each less than a half-day’s drive from Chapel Hill. The University of North Carolina is an equal opportunity employer and is strongly committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. SALARY AND BENEFITS This is a twelve-month fixed term appointment with the possibility of a one year renewal. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Standard state benefits of annual leave, sick leave, and State or optional retirement plan. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION Review of applications will begin on February 25, 2007. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. TO APPLY Applications may be submitted electronically or in print. Send a letter of application, a resume and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three professional references to: TRLN Endeca Implementation Librarian c/o Tiffany Allen, Personnel Librarian The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3900, 213 Davis Library Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Polls open for Code4Lib 2007 T-Shirt design
Even though I didn't vote for this design, I would vote for the shorter wording. But I will point out that it seems slightly less than democratic to have folks choose a design, and then re-do that design w/o putting it up for another vote on code4lib. Maybe I'm being too picky? -emily Edward Corrado wrote: I like the wording, providing it isn't too long for artistic purposes. Edward Ben Ostrowsky said the following on 1/26/2007 10:45 AM: Well, if it's open for a rewrite, perhaps something like: It was hopeless. Maude and Agnes had cracked top-secret messages during World War II, but even Bletchley Park's finest cryptographers were mystified by the enigmatic 008. At the risk of dissecting frogs, I think it telegraphs the context and puts the punchline where it belongs: at the end. It also breaks well into three lines. Ben -- Edward M. Corrado http://www.tcnj.edu/~corrado/ Systems Librarian The College of New Jersey 403E TCNJ Library PO Box 7718 Ewing, NJ 08628-0718 Tel: 609.771.3337 Fax: 609.637.5177 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Limiting by availability (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting data from Voyager into XML?)
At NCSU, we don't have any survey or focus group data about user interest in limiting by availability. But we do have an availability limit on our catalog search results page. It's a link at the top of the page that says 'limit results to currently available items'. http://www2.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/?N=0Nty=1Ntk=Keywordview=fullNtt=deforestation Thought maybe folks would be interested in our stats. I'm generalizing a bit with these figures, but I think they give a feel for usage. For the period July - November 2006, we saw approximately 5,746 uses of the limit to available functionality. If you compare that with total use of our various facets (including our 'new book' facet), that's out of 352,292 (about 1.6%). It's actually our least used facet (*gasp*). In that time period, we also processed about 538,283 search requests. So maybe just under 1.1% of search requests used an availability limit. Of course, like any statistic, interpreting it is fraught with danger. Do people not use it b/c it's too small? Would it be more useful if it was placed elsewhere on the screen? Would folks use it less if it wasn't at the top? What if we changed the wording? The problem we always face with this type of statistics is: what the heck to do with those numbers? -emily lynema Steve Toub wrote: Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Patrons definitly want to be able to limit on availability. And I don't think anyone's figured out a good way to do that in this generation of export and index search tools we are experimenting with. Does anyone have hard data (e.g., surveys, focus groups... anything more than anecdotes) on this? --SET -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
