Yeah, you definitely provide a lot of search and refinement options, Steven. We don't really have the issue of clustering people by branch library so our directory is pretty simple. We used to have a listing of librarians by expertise but got rid of that in the directory and just rely on contact info in more specific contexts (our collections team librarians are listed on the library purchase request form, for example).
I will say people dig the colors we use for the departments. Buddy Pennington Head of Library Systems & Technology (Librarian III) Miller Nichols Library University of Missouri--Kansas City -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Turner, Steven Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2019 3:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] tools in use for staff directory applications? Hi Buddy - I am partial to our staff directory. https://www.lib.ua.edu/#/staffdir S Steven Turner, MLIS Manager, Web Technologies and Development, Assistant Professor University Libraries The University of Alabama 416 Gorgas Library | Box 870266, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0266 office 205-348-1638 [email protected] | http://www.lib.ua.edu/ “To dwell inside a well-functioning machine is to be largely unaware of its functioning. That’s its gift, and we accept it thoughtlessly, ungratefully, unknowingly." [cid:[email protected]] On Apr 4, 2019, at 3:22 PM, Pennington, Buddy D. <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Our website is built on .NET and we use Oracle to store staff info. https://library.umkc.edu/staff-directory Buddy Pennington Head of Library Systems & Technology (Librarian III) Miller Nichols Library University of Missouri--Kansas City -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Sean Aery Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2019 3:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CODE4LIB] tools in use for staff directory applications? Hello Code4Lib, At Duke University Libraries, we are planning to design/develop a new staff directory application this spring. It seems like this would be a fairly common area of need, but there don't appear to be any widely-adopted solutions out there. So we're interested in learning more about what our peers (y'all) do to power their staff directories. For some added context, we use Drupal 7 for our website and a growing percentage of the applications we support use Ruby on Rails. We don't have much in-house experience with JS frameworks like Vue or React. Whatever we use to build the directory, it should be able to represent people (with photo, contact info, bio, etc.), display a browsable hierarchy of organizational units, and be widely discoverable and accessible. Does anyone have a solution they like for their staff directory? What tooling do you use and why? Any words of advice you could share? Many thanks, Sean ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sean Aery Digital Projects Developer Software Services Duke University Libraries 030U Bostock Library Box 90198 Durham, NC 27708 [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
