There is a free version of LibCal that we use at Dowling that allows
room scheduling and multiple calendars. It's limited to 3 rooms, and
it may be limited to three calendars as well. But, the interface is
pretty easy to use, and it will output the calendars as RSS feeds that
can can be
If you're looking to compile your own data, Zotero is a great way to
do it and provides an API. I recently moved our faculty publications
database into it.
If you're looking to compile data, though I hate to suggest it, is
there an API for google scholar? It's not a perfect resource, but for
Hi Mary,
Here's an asp script that I used to use to display our hours (
http://library.dowling.edu). It has a feature to allow for predefined
closures. It just needs to be called via javascript from the page you wish
to use it on. We used to have a IIS server, but have recently changed over
to
We use iPads in information instruction sessions to control the PC
giving us the freedom to walk around the room. As well, we can hand
the iPads off to students to have them demonstrate on it and display
it the room.
We also have iPads we use for reference to free us from the desk. It
allows us
Hi Allie,
We have a database that we maintain of our ft faculty publications.
Like others have mentioned, this is not any easy thing to maintain and
depends upon the scope of the project. We only collect ft faculty
publications.
We have an MS Access backend and then use asp to pull the
We have a shared email account that we use for these situations. As
well, we have a master account/password list for all of the different
accounts that get created that is in a shared network folder. That
way if someone is out sick or on sabbatical, the information is
available to all of our
We use PMWiki (http://pmwiki.org/) as our wiki. It's php based,
stable, open source, has a large community of developers, and it's
easy to configure and work with. It also has a fairly easy to learn
editor. Not quite WYSIWG, but doable.
You can also set up a variety of skins for different
