Re: [CODE4LIB] Do you use alt tags in your images for digital collections

2016-03-19 Thread Hicks, William
I¹m interested in other¹s thoughts on this as well, particularly when you have images within a larger set. We have objects with multiple pages (8 of a 10 in a newspaper, or the back side of a postcard) and the data present in the metadata record never feels quite right for the lower-level pages in

[CODE4LIB] sharing google analytics data

2014-06-19 Thread Hicks, William
Morning All, Would anyone of you be able to share some of your Google Analytics Data with me? I’m looking at updating some IA and design on our main library site and want to see what other people’s data look like since we all share many of the same types of problems and many of us have

[CODE4LIB] Confidentiality, User Experience Studies, IRBs

2014-03-20 Thread Hicks, William
Anybody have advice on maintaing records related to usability studies, interviews, etc. with regards to records retention/IRB policies in your university settings? I’m putting together an IRB application at my institution and am curious what any of you might have done for this sort of stuff.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Confidentiality, User Experience Studies, IRBs

2014-03-20 Thread Hicks, William
demographic information. This might be more simplistic than what you're going for, but it's working out really well for me. Emily Emily Mitchell Librarian / Webmaster 214 Penfield Library SUNY Oswego Oswego, NY 13126 Phone: 315-312-3540 On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Hicks, William william.hi

[CODE4LIB] Data about Donors

2014-03-06 Thread Hicks, William
Maybe a long shot, but if any of you have data about the donors at your libraries, or have drawn up user personas for usability testing/assessment purposes, I would appreciate anything you might be willing to forward on. I’m building a donor/marketing/giving/support portal thing and need to

[CODE4LIB] Data related to Giving/Support/Budget areas of your sites

2014-01-30 Thread Hicks, William
Hi Kids, I’m starting in on creating a support/giving/budget portal (in Drupal) for our university library and am doing my due diligence on content and features. To that end: * Does anyone have an active online site/section/campaign that discusses budgetary and support issues in a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lightweight Autocomplete Application

2013-07-08 Thread Hicks, William
Consider the twitter version of autocomplete. https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js W -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary Gordon Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 1:13 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB]

[CODE4LIB] Broken Link Report Tool?

2011-04-04 Thread Hicks, William
Can someone point me in the direction of a good, robust broken link scanner other than Xenu, which is not quite powerful or adaptable enough for my needs. We are trying to get more serious about our content strategy in my library and linking in various parts of our site is abysmal. Here's my