Re: [CODE4LIB] Hours of Operation on Website - management tool

[Laura Robbins]

There is a free version of LibCal that we use at Dowling that allows
room scheduling and multiple calendars.  It's limited to 3 rooms, and
it may be limited to three calendars as well.  But, the interface is
pretty easy to use, and it will output the calendars as RSS feeds that
can can be customized for events or closings, etc.  We've been very
happy with it.

Laura Pope Robbins
Professor/Reference Librarian
Dowling College


> On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Joel Marchesoni  wrote:
>
> It's not free or open source and it won't update your Google Places account 
> but we've just started using LibCal and are pretty happy with it so far. It's 
> easy to update, has the capability for hours, events, and room scheduling, 
> and a decent API.
>
> Joel Marchesoni
> Tech Support Analyst
> Hunter Library, Western Carolina University
> http://library.wcu.edu/
> 828-227-2860
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken 
> Irwin
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 09:01
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Hours of Operation on Website - management tool
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm hoping to find some sort of web-based app that can manage the library's 
> hours of operations, including:
>
> * Displaying today's hours
>
> * Displaying an upcoming schedule of hours
>
> * Updatable though a GUI interface by non-techy library staff
>
> * Able to update our Google Places account hours (which, I note, 
> currently lists our school-year hours as our open hours today), perhaps on a 
> daily basis
>
> * Preferably a stand-alone thing that can provide data on an ad hoc 
> basis (as opposed to a CMS-specific thing like a WP plugin or a Drupal module)
>
> * PHP preferred but not necessary
>
> * OSS / free preferred but not necessary
>
> I feel certain that someone else has already wanted this enough to create it. 
> Anyone have a solution they're happy with?
>
> Thanks
> Ken

Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author

[Laura Robbins]

If you're looking to compile your own data, Zotero is a great way to
do it and provides an API.  I recently moved our faculty publications
database into it.

If you're looking to compile data, though I hate to suggest it, is
there an API for google scholar?  It's not a perfect resource, but for
humanities and social sciences, I've found some publications for our
faculty that they hadn't given me themselves.

Laura Pope Robbins
Professor/Reference Librarian
Dowling College


> On May 20, 2015, at 11:33 AM, "Bornheimer, Bee"  wrote:
>
> Possibly the Mendeley API? 
> http://dev.mendeley.com/getting_started/common_tasks.html
>
> It might also make a difference to know the domain in which these authors 
> publish. Scopus indexes primarily scientific, technical, medical content.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
> Heller, Margaret
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 7:27 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
>
> I've used the arXiv API for a similar purpose: 
> http://arxiv.org/help/api/index.
>
> Margaret Heller
> Digital Services Librarian
> Loyola University Chicago
> 773-508-2686
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
> Pikas, Christina K.
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:22 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
>
> The Scopus API: http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex 
> Armstrong
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
>
> Hi list,
>
> What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly 
> publications by author?
>
> I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with 
> other information about each author.
>
> Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell.
>
> CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author.
>
> Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or 
> import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. 
> That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above 
> with their public (as opposed to their member) API.
>
> Any other ideas or thoughts?
>
> Best,
> Alex Armstrong

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Hours Fail

[Laura Robbins]

Hi Mary,

Here's an asp script that I used to use to display our hours (
http://library.dowling.edu).  It has a feature to allow for predefined
closures.  It just needs to be called via javascript from the page you wish
to use it on.  We used to have a IIS server, but have recently changed over
to a linux one.  So, I had to rewrite it as php, but this always worked
reliably.

Take care,

Laura Pope Robbins
Dowling College


On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Mary E. Hanlin 
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I know this has been covered a bit here, but I have a rather exigent
> conundrum, and I'm hoping to figure out the best/easiest solution.
> Yesterday, the script to hour library hours (on our front page) which pulls
> from Google calendar stopped working ("Error at line undefined in
> undefined[!]" - the exclamation point is mine; it seemed like it needed
> one.)
>
> Basically, the code came from a site that walked one through how to call
> daily hours (javascript) using Google's V2 API, but the V2 is fully
> deprecated (as I abruptly discovered), and I need to figure out another
> solution.  (I haven't been able to find similar documentation for V3's API.)
>
> Some constraints: 1. Our IT will not support php.We are an .NET shop
> with IIS servers.  2. We may not have the dough to pay for something like
> LibCal which seems to me the easiest solution.  3.  I'm semi-new to this
> "Internets/webmaster" thing, and really only know front-end coding, so a
> solution involving something like .NET, Python, etc. would have to have,
> "How to make a peanut butter sandwich," kind of documentation.
>
> Right now, I've just manually coded our hours, which is fine until
> Saturday when our hours change, and I'm not here (hopefully).  I will be
> super grateful for insight or knowledge.
>
> Mary.
>
> Mary Hanlin
> Electronic Resources and Web Librarian
> J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
> Phone:804.523.5323
> Email: mhan...@reynolds.edu
>


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Re: [CODE4LIB] Tablet Uses for Library Staff

[Laura Robbins]

We use iPads in information instruction sessions to control the PC
giving us the freedom to walk around the room.  As well, we can hand
the iPads off to students to have them demonstrate on it and display
it the room.

We also have iPads we use for reference to free us from the desk.  It
allows us to carry chat with us and keep statistics on the go.

Laura Pope Robbins
Professor/Reference Librarian
Dowling College



> On Oct 15, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Matthew Sherman  
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Today a few of us received our a few Surface Pros to use around the
> library.  Being the digital content librarian for our University I really
> want to figure out some interesting things we can do with them.  I have
> some thoughts on possibly working with inventory and my information
> literacy librarian colleague is thinking how to use them in the classroom.
> Yet, I wanted to poll the group and see what sorts of interesting things
> people are doing with tablets for their library staff, or ideas people
> might have for utilizing a Surface Pro in the library.
>
> Matt Sherman

Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database

[Laura Robbins]

Hi Allie,

We have a database that we maintain of our ft faculty publications.
Like others have mentioned, this is not any easy thing to maintain and
depends upon the scope of the project.  We only collect ft faculty
publications.

We have an MS Access backend and then use asp to pull the citations
for display in various places on our website.  We went with that
because I was already running various access databases on our website,
and it was easy for me to set up.

You can see it here:

http://www.dowling.edu/library/facultybib/searchpubs.asp

I've got our faculty pretty much on board with getting me their
citations after several years, but there are things you can do to get
buy in.

One of the biggest selling points for us has been that accrediting
bodies, like NCATE, want to see faculty publications.  Our faculty
also have to submit a yearly self evaluation and cv, so I usually time
a call for latest publications right after that is due.  They already
have the info compiled, so it's easy for them to share at that point.

The hardest thing will be the initial data entry.  For that, we
initially had web- based forms that I had several librarians working
with me to use.  Now, I do all of the maintenance.

Laura Pope Robbins
Associate Professor/Reference Librarian
Dowling College


On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya
 wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do 
> it?
>
> Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research:
> - RSS feeds from the major databases
> - RefWorks citation lists
>
> These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 
> colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking 
> students.
>
> Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just 
> interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our 
> faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting 
> days/weeks/months/years after the fact.
>
> Thanks!
> Allie
>
> --
> Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya
> Web and Mobile Systems Librarian
> Office of Library Services
> City University of New York
> 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325
> New York, NY 10019
> 1-646-313-8158
> alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] what do you do: API accounts used by library software, that assume an individual is registered

[Laura Robbins]

We have a shared email account that we use for these situations.  As
well, we have a master account/password list for all of the different
accounts that get created that is in a shared network folder.  That
way if someone is out sick or on sabbatical, the information is
available to all of our full-time librarians.

Laura Pope Robbins
Associate Professor/Reference Librarian
Dowling College Library

Phone: 631.244.5023
Fax: 631.244.3374

"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its
edge."  --Tyrion Lannister in A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

On Mar 4, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Jonathan Rochkind  wrote:

> Whether it's Amazon AWS, or Yahoo BOSS, or JournalTOCs, or almost anything 
> else -- there are a variety of API's that library software wants to use, 
> which require registering an account to use.
>
> They may or may not be free, sometimes they require a credit card attached 
> too.
>
> Most of them assume that an individual person is creating an account, the 
> account will be in that individual's name, with an email address, etc.
>
> This isn't quite right for a business or organization, like the library, 
> right?  What if that person leaves the organization? But all this existing 
> software is using API keys attached to 'their' account? Or what if the person 
> doesn't leave, but responsibilities for monitoring emails from the vendor 
> (sent to that account) change?  And even worse if there's an institutional 
> credit card attached to that account.
>
> I am interested in hearing solutions or approaches that people have ACTUALLY 
> tried to deal with this problem, and how well they have worked.
>
> I am NOT particularly interested in "Well, you could try X or Y"; I can think 
> of a bunch of things I _could_ try myself, each with their potential 
> strengths and weaknesses. I am interested in hearing about what people 
> actually HAVE tried or done, and how well it has worked.
>
> Has anyone found a way to deal with this issue, other than having each API 
> registered to an account belonging to whatever individual staff happened to 
> be dealing with it that day?
>
> Thanks for any advice.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Wikis

[Laura Robbins]

We use PMWiki (http://pmwiki.org/) as our wiki.  It's php based,
stable, open source, has a large community of developers, and it's
easy to configure and work with.  It also has a fairly easy to learn
editor.  Not quite WYSIWG, but doable.

You can also set up a variety of skins for different portions of the
wiki.  I've been able to implement new features fairly quickly and
easily.

Laura

Laura Pope Robbins
Associate Professor/Reference Librarian
Dowling College Library

Phone: 631.244.5023
Fax: 631.244.3374

"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its
edge."  --Tyrion Lannister in A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

On Jul 25, 2012, at 9:22 AM, Katie Filbert  wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Nathan Tallman  wrote:
>
>> That's what I'm worried about with MediaWiki. The syntax used when creating
>> and editing pages isn't intuitive and I'm afraid people won't want to use
>> it. I was hoping someone would recommend a wiki with more of a WYSIWYG type
>> of editing interface. Was also hoping to stick with FLOSS, but perhaps I
>> should at least peak at Confluence.
>>
>
> It's still experimental but the Wikimedia Foundation is developing a visual
> WYSIWYG type editor.
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor:Sandbox (try it)
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor
>
> The goal is to make it easier to edit without the wiki syntax.  There still
> will be an "advanced" edit option so that people can still use markup if
> they want.
>
> Cheers,
> Katie Filbert
>
>
>>
>> Thanks for the input,
>> Nathan
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Nate Vack  wrote:
>>
>>> If you're expecting "everyone" to create and edit pages,
>>> it will be very hard to get widespread adoption with it.
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Katie Filbert
> Board member, Wikimedia District of Columbia
> http://wikimediadc.org
> filbe...@gmail.com
> @filbertkm / @wikimediadc