Re: [CODE4LIB] Ebook reader app

2015-03-25 Thread Lauren Magnuson
Eben - Thanks for the Library Simplified link, that's exactly what I was looking for! It seems like academic libraries have work to do to lobby our vendors to enable us to create better / smoother user experiences. I suspect they won't make it easy though. The larger issue seems to be Adobe

[CODE4LIB] Ebook reader app

2015-03-24 Thread Lauren Magnuson
/ advice. This feels like a kind of enormous problem, and a lot of libraries could benefit from a group working toward a technical solution - but perhaps such a group / initiative already exists? Thanks in advance, Lauren Magnuson Systems Emerging Technologies Librarian, CSU Northridge Development

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ebook reader app

2015-03-24 Thread Lauren Magnuson
Becky that is 100% awesome - I had not seen that article, but it is totally helpful. Thanks for sharing it! Lauren

[CODE4LIB] Call for Proposals: LITA Guide on Data Visualization

2015-03-23 Thread Lauren Magnuson
*Call for Chapters:* *Data Visualization: A Guide to Visual Storytelling for Librarians* *Proposals Submission Deadline: April 30, 2015* *Full Chapters Due: August 1, 2015* Editor: Lauren Magnuson (California State University, Northridge) Series: LITA Guides Publisher: Rowman Littlefield

[CODE4LIB] Survey on Programming Languages, Frameworks, and Web Content Management Systems used in Libraries

2015-02-12 Thread Lauren Magnuson
to participate or have any questions about the study, please email or contact the study’s principal investigator at lauren.magnu...@csun.edu. The survey will be open until March 15th. Thank you, Lauren Magnuson, CSU Northridge Bohyun Kim, University of Maryland, Baltimore Eric Phetteplace, California

[CODE4LIB] Survey on Programming Languages, Frameworks, and Web Content Management Systems used in Libraries

2015-01-07 Thread Lauren Magnuson
investigator at lauren.magnu...@csun.edu. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Lauren Magnuson, CSU Northridge Bohyun Kim, University of Maryland, Baltimore Eric Phetteplace, California College of the Arts Margaret Heller, Loyola University, Chicago

[CODE4LIB] Digital Bookplates in Drupal?

2014-01-03 Thread Lauren Magnuson
their modelhttp://library.brown.edu/its/software/bookplates/, but I'd like to adapt it for something that seamlessly works with a Drupal environment. Thanks in advance! Lauren Magnuson -- Systems Emerging Technologies Librarian, CSUN Systems Coordinator, PALNI @lpmagnuson http://www.twitter.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic Library Website Question

2013-12-17 Thread Lauren Magnuson
While it's a really good idea to make sure your library's website is prominent on your institution's page (because I think that does send a strong signal, even to students, that your library is important to your campus), the really big question is how easily your students will be able to find your

Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic Library Website Question

2013-12-17 Thread Lauren Magnuson
Agree - you'd still need evidence to convince the powers that be. To get some data to that end, maybe some snapshot usability observation where you sit down a handful of users at a computer (better yet, on a tablet/mobile device) and ask them to find the library's website (ensuring that the

[CODE4LIB] Patron Loads from Banner (XML/Tab-Delimited)

2013-12-16 Thread Lauren Magnuson
to be extracting patron data from Banner into XML format required by OCLC WMS, I'm especially interested. Thanks, Lauren Magnuson -- Systems Emerging Technologies Librarian, CSUN Systems Coordinator, PALNI @lpmagnuson http://twitter.com/lpmagnuson

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it

2013-08-11 Thread Lauren Magnuson
got a lot of usage out of it, and cost per use was incredibly low (and much lower than cpu for our other subscriptions/databases). Lauren Magnuson On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Andrew Darby darby.li...@gmail.com wrote: I don't get this argument at all. Why is it counter productive to try