Re: [CODE4LIB] REST vs ODBC

On 23/09/14 10:01, Fitchett, Deborah wrote: Morning, all, We have a small dilemma: 1. Our brand new Alma system provides access to a bunch of data via RESTful API. It’s on The Cloud so we’re not going to be getting direct access to the database anytime soon. Is there a reason reason t

Re: [CODE4LIB] REST vs ODBC

Hi Deborah, > We have an existing application that would be more efficient if > it could get that data, but which only uses ODBC. Did the "existing application" connect to your former integrated library system? If it did so via ODBC, then it was accessing tables and fields in the ILS's underly

[CODE4LIB] REST vs ODBC

Morning, all, We have a small dilemma: 1. Our brand new Alma system provides access to a bunch of data via RESTful API. It’s on The Cloud so we’re not going to be getting direct access to the database anytime soon. 2. We have an existing application that would be more efficient i

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

Alex, Thanks so much for sharing your new site built in LG2. I love it. Simple, attactive, but very useable. It's very interesting to see an honest-to-goodness "this actually looks like a real website and not like just some libguide" library website built using lg. More and more I'm seriously cons

[CODE4LIB] Wikipedia notability (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey)

I'm currently spending a chunk of time attempting to balance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_Zealand_academics for recentism, gender imbalance and racial imbalance, creating >100 biographies so far. I can tell you that google scholar is a really crappy measure once you move outside

Re: [CODE4LIB] book scanner experiences/recommendations

Laura Buchholz wrote: > -Does anyone have a diy bookscanner that is for patron use? Do they do fine > with it? I'm looking at the kits, and drooling a little over the new one > , but it seems > more appropriate for staff use than patron use

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

I was just curious in general. I'm always interested in data on web usability. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 12:34 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE

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