Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

The cheapest and best A to Z list i know is the german EZB: http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=A&colors=7&lang=en This list is maintained by hunderds of libraries. You just mark those journals you have licensed and that's it. Not very widely known: they do also provid

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

Yeah, as one of the developers of Xerxes, I've been meaning to fix that long-page problem. If any other PHP developers want to contribute a patch, please feel free. It won't take any herculean R&D to fix that feature, just figuring out what the interface ought to look like and making it so. (Fi

Re: [CODE4LIB] Do you have Project Gutenberg (or other public domain e-books) MARC Records in your OPAC?

The Colorado Library Consortium provides MARC records for nearly 500 most user-requested resources from Project Gutenberg: http://www.clicweb.org/import-marc-records -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

We have a home grown system built on CF/MSSQL. It currently manages our electronic serials licensing workflow (or part of it at least) as well as generating the A-Z list. One peculiarity of the list, and one reason why we're still using it, is that staff wanted to be able to include "select" f

Re: [CODE4LIB] Do you have Project Gutenberg (or other public domain e-books) MARC Records in your OPAC?

Matt, there are about a million public domain ebooks in the Open Library and I have been trying to come up with a way to export MARC records with the URLs. It's tricky, but only because some scripting needs to be done. If anyone here has extracted the ebook records or who would like to help

[CODE4LIB] Do you have Project Gutenberg (or other public domain e-books) MARC Records in your OPAC?

If so can you send me a URL? Thanks much! Matt Amory On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Michele DeSilva wrote: > Hi Code4Lib-ers, > > I want to chime in and say that I, too, enjoyed the streaming archive from > the conference. > > I also have a question: my library has a horribly antiquated A to

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

We user Xerxes too to serve up our databases A-Z list but as we have so many databases (900 or so.) that it takes a really long time for the page to load, as the way Xerxes is currently designed, it loads the whole A-Z list at once. So if you have a large number of databases, be warned that

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

SubjectsPlus (an open-source subject guide system built by Code4Libber Andrew Darby) generates a nice A-Z list. I don't know if you're looking for a solution for subject guides, too, but if you are I'd definitely give that a look -- http://www.subjectsplus.com. We use it here and like it a lot. Ju

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

If search is your priority, then I think solr would be a better option. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Dhanushka Samarakoon wrote: > Hi Michele, > We created one using wordpress (which is not yet live) > If you are interested in that route, I'll be happy to share the details > with you. > Dhanu

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

Hi Michele, We created one using wordpress (which is not yet live) If you are interested in that route, I'll be happy to share the details with you. Dhanushka. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Michele DeSilva wrote: > Hi Code4Lib-ers, > > I want to chime in and say that I, too, enjoyed the strea

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

if you put the info in a Solr index, you could use Blacklight on top. On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Michele DeSilva wrote: Hi Code4Lib-ers, I want to chime in and say that I, too, enjoyed the streaming archive from the conference. I also have a question: my library has a horribly antiquated

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

We have Metalib and use Xerxes as a front-end to Metalib, so we just use Xerxes as our "A-Z list", or directory or databases too. But what I'd really like to do is just _use the catalog_. If there was a good interface for the catalog, and these resources were included in it's search... why wo

[CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

Hi Code4Lib-ers, I want to chime in and say that I, too, enjoyed the streaming archive from the conference. I also have a question: my library has a horribly antiquated A to Z list of databases and online resources (it's based in Access). We'd like to do something that looks more modern and is

[CODE4LIB] Introducing TILE 0.9 - redesigned website | public release

MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) is excited to announce the redesigned website for and public release of The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) < http://mith.umd.edu/tile/>, a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic edi

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ranking factors for library resources: Who really uses what?

"generate artificial serendipity" Now my motto! Cary On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Simon Spero wrote: > There's another source of data for training library relevance ranking that I > don't think has been exploited much yet. > > (for academic libraries) > Searches against catalogs are usuall

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ranking factors for library resources: Who really uses what?

There's another source of data for training library relevance ranking that I don't think has been exploited much yet. (for academic libraries) Searches against catalogs are usually intended to locate material to fill a specific information need. Often this information seeking results in circulati

[CODE4LIB] c4l-NYC Spring Forum: Web Frameworks

Hello all, I hope everyone enjoyed the con - I wasn't personally able to go, but I almost felt like I was there thanks to the stream + #code4lib - hats off to the live stream organizer(s). We are one month away from the METRO code4lib-nyc SIG spring meeting, Wed. March 16, 10a-noon, at METRO

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ranking factors for library resources: Who really uses what?

In Mendeley we are using number of readers to rank search results on our catalog. Our search index is in solr. I don't have more fine grained details, but I could get them if people are interested. - Ian On 16 February 2011 14:21, LeVan,Ralph wrote: > As you pointed out, WorldCat does all sort

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ranking factors for library resources: Who really uses what?

As you pointed out, WorldCat does all sorts of tricky ranking. I believe there's a dashboard that they use for tuning the ranking. Library holdings count, term frequencies, availability, FRBR, and locality are all facets of that ranking. In OCLC Research we do practically nothing without some sor