Re: [CODE4LIB] Alma - taking credit cards?

2021-03-30 Thread Will Martin
Apologies for my last message, everyone. I was attempting to reply off-list and hit reply all by mistake. Sheepishly, Will Martin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Alma - taking credit cards?

2021-03-30 Thread Will Martin
ir or replacement. I've been struggling with this because I don't think it's wise (or legal) to store people's credit card data in Alma itself. Do you happen to know if Touchnet supports scenarios like this, where all that really happens is the card is taken down in case of

[CODE4LIB] Alma - taking credit cards?

2021-03-17 Thread Will Martin
check-out, which could be charged in the event that someone fails to return a laptop or it comes back broken. Is that something Alma can do? We've only just switched to it last July and are still learning its idiosyncrasies. Will Martin Head of Digital Initiatives, Systems and Service

Re: [CODE4LIB] The IP Registry

2020-12-04 Thread Will Martin
hs, and it also casts a bit of shadow on the service's integrity. I get that participation is important for this kind of thing, but I suspect there are better ways of getting people onboard! On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 6:02 PM Will Martin wrote: > I am concerned by the fact that the IP R

Re: [CODE4LIB] The IP Registry

2020-12-03 Thread Will Martin
-- a centralized repository of IP ranges for bulk updating publisher records -- is both sound and useful. But their business model leaves a bad taste in my mouth. If I could, I would opt out of the system. But they do not appear to have made a mechanism available to do so. Will Martin Head

[CODE4LIB] The IP Registry

2020-12-02 Thread Will Martin
All, Anyone have experience with theipregistry.org? I took a look at it today and I'm not sold. The concept is good. But I am skeptical of people wanting to insert themselves into my institution's workflow. Will Martin Head of Digital Initiatives, Systems and Services Che

[CODE4LIB] ProctorU

2020-09-23 Thread Will Martin
're still curious: have any of you dealt with this? What have you come up with? Will Martin Head of Digital Initiatives, Systems and Services Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota

Re: [CODE4LIB] file transfer service recommendations?

2020-09-23 Thread Will Martin
s from within your email. LiquidFiles was purchased by the university system I work for, so I'm afraid I don't know exactly what security considerations they took into account or how much it costs. Will Martin Head of Digital Initiatives, Systems and Services Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota

Re: [CODE4LIB] Flatbed scanners

2020-06-23 Thread Will Martin
First up, thanks for the feedback so far! I think I need to give more context. First, we're not going to be scanning books with these. We're scanning: paper. Old loose-leaf paper. Hundreds of boxes of the stuff. Flatbeds were designed for that exact medium, so although I do like camera-base

[CODE4LIB] Flatbed scanners

2020-06-22 Thread Will Martin
things to look out for? Will Martin Head of Digital Initiatives, Systems and Services Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota

[CODE4LIB] One Button Studio - alternatives?

2019-10-29 Thread Will Martin
any of you been in a similar position? What did you do? Any suggestions for alternative software we could use to glue together our rather expensive video-recording hardware would be greatly appreciated. Will Martin Head of Digital Initiatives, Systems and Services Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota

[CODE4LIB] Security gate alternatives

2018-09-18 Thread Will Martin
not, what steps have you taken to secure non-book items in your buildings? I'm interested to hear what you've come up with. Will Martin Head of Digital Initiatives, Systems & Services Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sorting LC call numbers in MySQL

2017-10-25 Thread Will Martin
ields to enable proper sorting -- classMark as varchar and > classNum as float. I look forward to hearing if anyone else has done it > more efficiently! > -Jodie > >> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Will Martin wrote: >> >> We have a small web app with a MySQL backend

[CODE4LIB] Sorting LC call numbers in MySQL

2017-10-25 Thread Will Martin
ble definition and then rejigger all the associated SQL queries in the app. Does anyone have a better solution for sorting LC call numbers in MySQL results? Thanks. Will Martin Head of Digital Initiatives, Systems & Services Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota

Re: [CODE4LIB] Wanted: Good overview article comparing new authentication/access control options (Shibboleth, OpenAthens, SAML, etc.)?

2017-08-09 Thread Will Martin
x27;t have any experience running it from the library's end, so I can't really testify as to its performance. Will Martin On 2017-08-09 14:44, Pennington, Buddy D. wrote: Do vendors even directly support SSO? We use SSO to enable users to authenticate into EZProxy for IP-based access to ou

[CODE4LIB] OCR software

2017-07-19 Thread Will Martin
n the past, we've just used the built-in OCR in Adobe Acrobat Pro. But we're looking at doing a bunch more digitization than we have before, and I just want to take stock of what's out there and see if that's an acceptable solution or if there's something else we sh

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibStats, PEAR, PHP 7

2016-09-01 Thread Will Martin
password. But aside from the PEAR issue, there's nothing I can see that's so critical that it really needs addressing. Will Martin On 2016-08-25 14:34, Demian Katz wrote: It's possible that the problem is that updating PHP also updated PEAR::DB, and it bumped up to a version t

[CODE4LIB] LibStats, PEAR, PHP 7

2016-08-25 Thread Will Martin
nly doable, but it'd be quite a pretty fair chunk of work, and in the meantime our reference and access services staff can't log their stats normally. Will Martin