Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-07 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I teach an intro to IT survey class for the LIS school at Illinois. The one-major-topic-a-week syllabus doesn't really give us time to deep dive into IT topics, but it lets us explore them and give contextual understanding to the building block pieces. Ideally, every topic has some sort of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-07 Thread Cyril Oberlander
: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 12:15 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC? I teach an intro to IT survey class for the LIS school at Illinois. The one-major-topic-a-week syllabus doesn't really give us time to deep dive into IT topics

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-06 Thread Doreva Belfiore
@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Joseph Montibello [joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 10:56 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC? Hi, When you talk about the OPAC, do you want them to be working with a full ILS or really

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-04 Thread john passmore
What about something from the archives/museums world? Something like CollectiveAccess or even Omeka? John On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: On 3 Aug 2012, at 15:56, Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu wrote: search, you could probably do

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-04 Thread Margaret Kipp
I've been using Omeka for about a year now in my information organisation and metadata classes. I have the students enter metadata using the normal entry form, but also installed the GenericXMLImport plugin and have them upload hand-created XML files to Omeka through this plugin. I think it

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-04 Thread Thomas Krichel
Margaret Kipp writes I've been using Omeka for about a year now in my information organisation and metadata classes. So have I but mainly for classes on repository building. This is locally called the building digital libraries class, whatever that means ;-). The way I work with Omeka

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-04 Thread Cary Gordon
I think that having each student use their own Koha instance is a great way to go. Assuming that they all have computers with reasonable specs, they can use VirtualBox (free) to import the Koha .ova file. The obvious caveat is that the teacher would presumably need to be conversant with Koha.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-04 Thread Thomas Krichel
Cary Gordon writes I think that having each student use their own Koha instance is a great way to go. This is what I planned to do if I had to do the course again. In the past, I was less advanced, I just had a library branch for each student. It's because when I ran the class in 2010,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-04 Thread Margaret Kipp
That's probably too much for my information organisation classes. :) Margaret On 4 August 2012 19:45, Thomas Krichel kric...@openlib.org wrote: Margaret Kipp writes I've been using Omeka for about a year now in my information organisation and metadata classes. So have I but mainly for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-03 Thread Joseph Montibello
Hi, When you talk about the OPAC, do you want them to be working with a full ILS or really just the front-end piece? If it's just the patron-facing search, you could probably do worse than to install Blacklight. It probably doesn't really meet the simple criteria - there's a lot more to it than

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-03 Thread Bohyun Kim
of Joseph Montibello [joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 10:56 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC? Hi, When you talk about the OPAC, do you want them to be working with a full ILS or really just the front-end

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-03 Thread Owen Stephens
On 3 Aug 2012, at 15:56, Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu wrote: search, you could probably do worse than to install Blacklight. It probably doesn't really meet the simple criteria - there's a lot more to it than I could talk about. But getting it out of the box, turned on,

[CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-02 Thread David E Mussulman
Hi everyone, I teach an intro to IT survey class for the LIS school at Illinois. The one-major-topic-a-week syllabus doesn't really give us time to deep dive into IT topics, but it lets us explore them and give contextual understanding to the building block pieces. Ideally, every topic has