We would like to allow our patrons to pay their fines online. I am
interested in hearing the solutions folks have for this.
We recently (6 months ago) implemented this. Our university's central
IT Services implemented a new SOA payment system so we built something
to connect with that and our
elm++
elm didn't have good MIME support
I have to agree. I have scoured YouTube and found no videos of Eric
Lease Morgan silently trapped in a glass box... :-)
This is a pretty terrible reply.
I thought it was a great reply.
obscure words (seriously, shibboleth?)
Somewhat obscure, but not so much in Code4Lib.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth_(Internet2)
Unless you're trying to be sarcastic...in which
Hi Laura
I'd like to find out from as many people as are interested what barriers
you feel exist right now to you releasing your library's bibliographic
metadata openly.
One issue is that we pay for enrichments (tables of contents etc) for
records, and I believe the licence restricts us from
The subscription fee for Australia and New Zealand is AU$600
(excluding GST) per year.
They say: Our 2014 releases will concentrate on IPV6 and reporting
capabilities.
I've just discovered that we're currently running 5.1c, which was
released in 2009. So perhaps we'll be able to survive on 5.7
Your library stats should tell the tale of how folks are getting there.
FWIW our Google Analytics stats indicate search being the primary vehicle:
45.9% Google
12.0% LMS (Moodle)
6.6% university management school subsite
4.3% OPAC
3.9% university main site
3.6% university education school
For a limited period of time I am making publicly available a Web-based
program called PDF2TXT -- http://bit.ly/1bJRyh8
Looks very good, and thanks for sharing it. (It's certainly not the
first piece of software called pdf2txt, but that probably doesn't
matter.)
PDF2TXT extracts the text
If you're not willing to provide even your name to make use of a free
service, then I dare say you are erecting your own barriers. Such is your
choice, of course, but I don't think others need to be compelled
to accommodate the barriers you create for yourself.
And just because the terms of
It seems there's also an 'OpenSubtitles' player which isn't
resitricted to educational institutions, but as it's all torrent
files and looks like many other torrent trackers, I'm afraid to
download them (for fear it's got the video included).
Subtitle files are small - the text plus cues for
I may have an opportunity to put together a little bit of a usability
testing lab at my library...
Have you seen GVSU's approach?
http://matthew.reidsrow.com/articles/12
http://matthew.reidsrow.com/articles/13
David
But we do encourage (promote) an interface that forces
off-campus authentication to our Summon instance.
With an explanation that it's because of pirates! :-)
https://auth.lib.unc.edu/ezproxy_auth.php?url=http://unc.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?s.q=
And one we would need to revisit if
a) most queries come from on-campus
Really? Are people just assuming this, or do they actually have data? That
would surprise me for most contemporary american places of higher education.
For the last two months, 25.4% of our Summon traffic has come from the
IP addresses we've given as on
I generally find the w3schools stuff a pretty good starting point to help
wrap my head around something I don't know:
I've used w3schools a fair bit in the past too, as they rank pretty
highly in Google, but have recently been made aware of advice that
they aren't necessarily to be relied on,
why local library catalog records do not show up in search results?
Basically, most OPACs are crap. :-) There are still some that that
don't provide persistent links to record pages, and most are designed
so that the user has a session and gets kicked out after 10 minutes
or so.
These issues
I tend to agree with Jonathan Rochkind that having every library's bib
record turn up as a Google snippet would be unwelcome. Better to
mediate the access to local library copies with something more
generic.
So when someone searches for a book in Google they should see every
online
(This discussion happened a couple of weeks ago during the summer
break here, but I figured it was still worth adding my couple of
cents.)
so, from Monday to Thursday, each day at noon
Eastern, 50 registration slots open.
I think this is a fantastic idea -- especially if you shift around
Some ebooks, in fact some of the greatest ever written, already cost less
than razor blades.
Do you mean ones not under copyright?
Those, plus Creative Commons etc.
For a good time I geo-located the email domains of Code4Lib subscribers,
plotted them on a Google map
Eric, that is pretty awesome! :-)
Disappointed not to show up in there though. The are 6 subscribers with a
New Zealand domain, but no mark on the map. (In comparison NGC4Lib has 17
and has
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