[CODE4LIB] NOW AVAILABLE: The April-June 2014 Quarterly Report from Fedora

2014-09-16 Thread Carol Minton Morris
Sept. 16, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/Xvy9up Contact: David Wilcox dwil...@duraspace.org From The Fedora Steering Group The Quarterly Report from Fedora April-June 2014 Fedora Development - In the past quarter, the development team released one Alpha and three Beta releases of Fedora 4;

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-16 Thread Graham, Jeannie
Our library is also just getting ready to delve into LibGuides v2 so I'm also interested in hearing what others are doing! Thank you, -- Jeannie Graham Jeannie Graham California State University, Chico Meriam Library - Library Technology Specialist Chico, CA 95929-0295

[CODE4LIB] quiz software

2014-09-16 Thread Valerie Forrestal
Hello friends! I was wondering if anyone could point me towards web-based open source software for library instruction that would let me administer quizzes, grade the quizzes and return a score, and then, preferably, keep some basic statistics. We're looking into a Google Forms/Spreadsheets hack,

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-16 Thread Will Martin
My impression of the LibGuides v2 template system is that it's decent within strict boundaries. We just launched LibGuides v2 about 6 weeks ago. We took a look at the templates, and opted not to do anything with them, because they didn't do what we needed them to. Our instance of LibGuides

Re: [CODE4LIB] quiz software

2014-09-16 Thread Shearer, Timothy
If your institution uses courseware (sakai/blackboard) you might be able to piggy back on that. -t On 9/16/14, 2:11 PM, Valerie Forrestal valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu wrote: Hello friends! I was wondering if anyone could point me towards web-based open source software for library instruction

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-16 Thread Heller, Margaret
We didn't modify the templates much, but I did do a few things with them to make them feel like our own, plus experiment with some ideas for the main library website which is due for a slight update. Here's an example of a guide: http://libguides.luc.edu/anthropology1. The major thing I

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-16 Thread Benjamin Florin
So the one thing we really wanted to do was customize the header of a guide based on whether it was produced at the health sciences library or at the main campus library, to hopefully help students keep track of where they are. Have you tried assigning the Health Sciences guides to their

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-16 Thread Cindi Blyberg
Hey everyone! Just wanted to de-lurk and answer a couple of questions here. :) Templates are customizable, and those customizations apply to the entire page, not just to the content area, although Will's right that with regular LibGuides the entire system and all the guides have a single look

Re: [CODE4LIB] quiz software

2014-09-16 Thread Jeremy C. Shellhase
Val, It's old and unsupported, but If you can code php there are some good bones in Quirex. http://www.thomastsoi.com/software/quirex/ I put it through a bunch of modifications and used it for years, just retired it a year or so ago for less useful and functional software. Jeremy C. Shellhase

Re: [CODE4LIB] quiz software

2014-09-16 Thread David Lowe
Just saw this on the NPR site by chance: http://www.socrative.com/ Not OSS, but appears to cover the functionality in mind at their free level. Anybody use Socrative? --DBL -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeremy C. Shellhase

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-16 Thread Blake Galbreath
I have always thought that left-nav was the UX standard for left-to-right languages (as opposed to Arabic, eg.: http://www.france24.com/ar/). Personally, I feel that right-nav makes more sense across the board, due to the fact that it is less distance to travel for right-handed people. But the

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-16 Thread Michael Schofield
I'm going to weigh-in a little before I leave for the day. We have made a few big templating customizations out of the box when we went live with LG2 as a transition for further customizations this fall (including replacing Bootstrap* entirely). If anyone is on the fence about LG2, back in

Re: [CODE4LIB] quiz software

2014-09-16 Thread David Lowe
Turns out, it's free for K-12 teachers only. My bad, but good for you if the shoe fits. --DBL From: David Lowe Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 4:49 PM To: jeremy.shellh...@humboldt.edu; CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] quiz software