Re: [CODE4LIB] Hours on Library Websites?
We also use LibCal to manage our library hours. We embed the calendar widget in the main hours page: http://libguides.bc.edu/hours I also created a small script that pulls from the LibCal API to create a daily hours block for our page footer. On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Tom Keays <tomke...@gmail.com> wrote: > We use LibCal's hours module to create calendars for our locations (just > the one actually, but we use a sub-location to track when patrons need to > swipe their card for evening entry). LibCal hours has a module that can be > embedded to display a rolling monthly calendar. > > http://resources.library.lemoyne.edu/about/hours > > Because there isn't a similar module to display a weekly calendar, I had to > roll my own using the JSONP output from the LibCal API. Here's a version of > the code I wrote. > > http://codepen.io/tomkeays/pen/MYewYN?editors=001 > > > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Matt Sherman <matt.r.sher...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > We are working on a website migration/redesign into WordPress and I am > > trying to figure out an automated solution for posting and keeping up > > to date the hours on the home page. I am wondering, how do other > > institutions manage this? Are there any good tools I should be > > looking into? Any insights or suggestions are appreciated. > > > > Matt Sherman > > > -- Jesse Martinez Library Applications Developer O'Neill Library, Boston College jesse.marti...@bc.edu 617-552-2509
Re: [CODE4LIB] Identification of damaged text
Hi John, That sounds really interesting! Can you share a link to this game or code? Jesse On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Jason Bengtson <j.bengtson...@gmail.com> wrote: > This may be a dumb thought, but I built a game a couple of years ago which > tracked results on a map (on an HTML canvas, with the map set as a > background with objects drawn on top of it) by counting the pixels of a > certain color and comparing them as a percentage against the pixels in the > whole map. You could do something similar, by comparing black or gray > beyond a particular threshold against total pixels. That would be a pretty > rough and ready approach, but it might be worth a shot. If the missing > sections have a significantly different color than the rest of the image, > that could be another metric to use. > > Best regards, > *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* > Innovation Architect > > > *Houston Academy of MedicineThe Texas Medical Center Library* > 1133 John Freeman Blvd > Houston, TX 77030 > http://library.tmc.edu/ > www.jasonbengtson.com > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Christine Mayo <ma...@bc.edu> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have an interesting assessment issue with some recently digitized > > newspapers that I wondered if anyone could shed some light on. We sent a > > batch of 19th century newspapers off to a vendor knowing they weren't in > > great shape, and now we have to decide whether the resultant images > (TIFFs) > > are usable or we should be looking for alternative copies and/or > microfilm. > > > > A lot of the images are in decent shape, but the first few pages of each > > issue are heavily creased and generally missing a smallish piece from the > > center of the page where the folds met. I'm looking for a way to > > programmatically identify how much text is missing/unusable for each > page. > > We haven't run OCR yet, part of this assessment is to figure out whether > we > > should bother sending these items out for OCR and METS/ALTO creation, > but I > > suspect we could run a quick and dirty in-house OCR if that would help. > > > > We can go through the images by hand and try to measure and/or count, but > > if anyone's worked on something like this or has thoughts, I'd love to > hear > > them! > > > > Thanks, > > Christine > > > > -- > > Christine Mayo > > Digital Production Librarian > > Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Library > > Boston College > > 140 Commonwealth Avenue > > Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 > > christine.m...@bc.edu > > > -- Jesse Martinez Web Services Librarian O'Neill Library, Boston College jesse.marti...@bc.edu 617-552-2509
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib services and https
On the topic of free SSL certs... https://letsencrypt.org/ Coming in Q4 2015 but definitely something to keep an eye out for. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Lisa Rabey <academichu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wasn't this a discussion about two years ago where myself and several > others offered to step up and use a service like https://www.startssl.com/ > , > which is free, but it kind of fell by the wayside? > > _lisa > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Eric Hellman <e...@hellman.net> wrote: > > > The "Library Privacy Pledge" has been finalized. See my blog post at > > > http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2015/08/update-on-library-privacy-pledge.html > > < > > > http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2015/08/update-on-library-privacy-pledge.html > > > > > > > and note that I've set the "description" attribute on the blog to "Move > > Blogspot to HTTPS NOW." > > > > Anyhoo... > > Here's the status of Code4lib services: > > > > www.code4lib.org <http://www.code4lib.org/> HTTPS NOT SUPPORTED. > Insecure > > login! > > planet.code4lib.org <http://planet.code4lib.org/> HTTPS NOT SUPPORTED > > jobs.code4lib.org <http://planet.code4lib.org/> HTTPS NOT SUPPORTED > > listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CODE4LIB < > > http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CODE4LIB> HTTPS ONLY. Yay. > > http://journal.code4lib.org/ <http://journal.code4lib.org/> HTTPS NOT > > SUPPORTED > > code4lib.spreadshirt.com <http://code4lib.spreadshirt.com/> HTTPS > > SUPPORTED, but serving insecure resoures. > > wiki.code4lib.org <http://planet.code4lib.org/> HTTPS NOT SUPPORTED. > > Insecure login! > > > > So can we start setting an example, now? If cost of certificates is an > > issue, I am willing to step up. > > > > > > Eric Hellman > > President, Free Ebook Foundation > > Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/ > > http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ > > twitter: @gluejar > > > > > > -- > > @byshieldmaiden | http://lisa.wtf > > > “There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" > "The mood will pass, sir.” - P.G. Wodehouse > -- Jesse Martinez Web Services Librarian O'Neill Library, Boston College jesse.marti...@bc.edu 617-552-2509
[CODE4LIB] LibGuides best practices
Hi all, At the recent NECode4Lib meetup there was some open discussion and interest in sharing guide standards and/or best practices for LibGuides. I'd like to share the LibGuides best practices guide we've recently put together at Boston College. http://libguides.bc.edu/guidestandards/ This guide is not meant to be exhaustive but mainly to address the top issues we've seen across our library's content. There's a strong focus on accessibility as we're going through a website redesign -- notice the Beta stamp in the upper left-hand corner of the guide. (And accessibility issues are a strong motivator to get folks to update their content!) Feedback is welcome. I'd also be interested in other's best practices. Thanks, Jesse Jesse Martinez Web Services Librarian O'Neill Library, Boston College jesse.marti...@bc.edu 617-552-2509
Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav
| Does anyone else find this stuff interesting?
Absolutely.
I have a slew of jQuery scripts I've put together to add in small bits of
(missing) functionality here-and-there, mostly based on suggestions/trouble
tickets from staff. These are far from plugins, though. Nonetheless, I
should go about sharing these scripts someday...
And I'd be very interested to see other institutions' stab at best
practices for LibGuides.
FWIW, I've been a regular on the SpringShare internal forums Lounge and
I've made a number suggestions on how to improve LibGuides functionality
workflow support. There is a good community on that forum and my
suggestions tend to receive prompt attention.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Alex Armstrong aarmstr...@acg.edu wrote:
The web content workflow and governance issues that were brought up are
really important. I would love to discuss them at excruciating length. But
content ownership conundrums and the frustrations of WYSIWYG editors are
broader issues that can be usefully taken up in other threads.
I de-lurked here because I saw an opening to discuss LibGuides with other
people who have a stake in it, especially as a lightweight CMS. I think
Josh's description of its limitations was very good. His feature
propositions, including that of a curated plugin system, were even better.
I have a question though: Why doesn't it exist already?
LibGuides is limited, though the v2 API looks promising for client-side
stuff. We should be talking with Springshare about improving workflows for
admins -- such as (an example I came across today) being able to upload
more than one image at a time. And, in the meantime, there's other stuff we
can do now: community docs, templates, themes, best practices, etc. I've
been surprised by the lack of this material, considering how widely
LibGuides is implemented.
Does anyone else find this stuff interesting?
Alex
On 09/25/2014 05:48 PM, Cindi Blyberg wrote:
One more great guide to share - a literary journal from a k12 in
Australia:
http://home2.scotch.wa.edu.au/theraven_winter2014
For you LG admins out there - it's a series of RT content types that's
governed by an external stylesheet. They have LibGuides CMS, and this
private guide is in its own group.
*back to lurking*
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Cindi Blyberg cindi...@gmail.com
wrote:
Jesse reminds me that I meant to point out that there is a Paste from
Word button in the RTE that will strip out all that microsoft nonsense.
Not quite what you were asking for (suppressing tags from the RTE--I
passed
that suggestion on to the devs) but it's what we refer people to who
break
their formatting accidentally with a massive paste. There's also a
Paste
as Plain Text button that has a similar effect.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Jesse Martinez jesse.marti...@bc.edu
wrote:
I can commiserate!
The tactic we've used at our university was to use the data migration
from
LGv1 to LGv2 as a means to convene guide authors and rethink
* the future overall layout of our guides (new side menu has been our
design choice but complicates preexisting three- and four-column
layouts);
* their intended use (pastiche of related but independent boxes on the
guide or something with a simple flow/concise content -- it's a
philosophical discussion, for sure);
* breakdown of content (when it is appropriate to have long detailed
pages
or break down into sub-pages, which have their own issues...);
* the strict use of accessibility policies (must set up strict policies
about funky colors fonts, minimize use HTML tables, content column
layout
w.r.t. responsive design, etc.).
I feel our internal conversations and meetings about rethinking
LibGuides
v2 with our staff have gone over well, and reiterating appropriate best
practices or suggestions whenever I field a LibGuides question have
birthed some improvements in guide construction. It's an ongoing battle,
of
course!
There are some heavy-handed tactics in place here too. For instance
we've
hidden the Fonts button in the guide editor using CSS.
span#cke_12 {display:none;}
This doesn't stop custom html or copy/pasting Word content (ugh) from
getting through, but it does allows us to say, nope, we're not
supporting
Comic Sans!
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu
wrote:
I lol'ed several times reading your message. I feel the pain. Well, it
is
nice to know I am not alone. You are right that this in particular is
an
organizational problem and not a LibGuides problem. But unfortunately
it
has been an organizational problem at both of the universities where
I've
worked that use LibGuides, and it sounds like it is a problem at many
other libraries. I'm not sure what it is about LibGuides that brings
out
the most territorial and user-marginalizing aspects of the librarian
psyche.
Does anyone have any positive experience in dealing
Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav
problem. LibGuides just seems to be the flash point for it. Will -- Jesse Martinez Web Services Librarian O'Neill Library, Boston College jesse.marti...@bc.edu 617-552-2509
Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Brad Coffield bcoffield.libr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm finally diving into our Libguides v2 migration and I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to share their experience/choices regarding templating. (Or even some code!) I'm thinking left-nav is the way to go. Has anyone split the main content column into two smaller columns? Done that with a column-width-spanning box atop the main content area? Any other neato templates ideas? We are in the process of building a style guide for all libguides authors to use. And also some sort of peer-review process to help enforce the style guide. I'm thinking we are going to want to restrict all authors to left-nav templates but perhaps the ideal solution would be to require left-nav of all but to have a variety of custom left-nav templates to choose from. Any thoughts are much appreciated! Warm regards, Brad -- Brad Coffield, MLIS Assistant Information and Web Services Librarian Saint Francis University 814-472-3315 bcoffi...@francis.edu -- Brad Coffield, MLIS Assistant Information and Web Services Librarian Saint Francis University 814-472-3315 bcoffi...@francis.edu -- Blake L. Galbreath Systems Librarian Eastern Oregon University One University Boulevard La Grande, OR 97850 (541) 962.3017 bgalbre...@eou.edu -- Nadaleen Tempelman-Kluit Head, User Experience (UX) Department Bobst Library, New York University n...@nyu.edu (212) 998-2469 @nyulibraries -- Brad Coffield, MLIS Assistant Information and Web Services Librarian Saint Francis University 814-472-3315 bcoffi...@francis.edu -- Jesse Martinez Web Services Librarian O'Neill Library, Boston College jesse.marti...@bc.edu 617-552-2509
Re: [CODE4LIB] library of congress call number subject coding
The University of Michigan Library did something like this using a three-tier taxonomy http://www.lib.umich.edu/browse/categories/ Jesse On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone have a handy scheme for coding LC call numbers into just a few broad subject areas (e.g. Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences) or perhaps something only a little more granular than that? I'm hoping for a list that will turn 1-3 letter LC classes into subject groups, and I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if someone's already got something. Any leads? Thanks Ken -- Jesse Martinez Web Services Librarian O'Neill Library, Boston College jesse.marti...@bc.edu 617-552-2509
Re: [CODE4LIB] Software to track website changes?
I know of a few colleagues in different orgs who have had good success using Redmine for task delegation (issue tracking) for small internal projects. I've used JIRA for years and it is extremely flexible and has nice custom workflow controls. Like others have mentioned, it can be overkill for small projects, though. On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Elizabeth Leonard elizabeth.leon...@shu.edu wrote: What I am really looking for: Example: proquest updates links to its resources. I need to tell my people to make that change and I want to be able to see that it was done- all in one place. I want to put changes on a schedule: when our Gallery's exhibit is over, I want to make sure that the proper person is notified to change the image on the site that advertises the show. I really hate hunting through all my emails for this stuff, having to run around to find people and ask them. We use LibGuides as our website, which has an integrated link checkers, so I am not worried as much about that. Does this make sense? Elizabeth -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Hagedon, Mike - (mhagedon) Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 11:29 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Software to track website changes? HI Elizabeth, We've had great success (some might say too much!) with Redmine, installed locally (we migrated from Trac). We're able to easily involve our colleagues in issue discussions (collaboration is very important to us). It can integrate with email (but maybe you don't want that?), and we've integrated it with our campus single sign-on. It can be used for light project management issue tracking, or for support requests (which sounds more like what you're wanting). We have non-developers who have requested Redmine projects to track their projects, so it's useful beyond just tracking website changes. We also use the GitHub issue tracker for our one major open-source project, and it's great except when it's not flexible enough for what we want to do. Mike --- Mike Hagedon Web Development Work Team Leader User Experience Department University of Arizona Libraries mhage...@email.arizona.edu --- -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Leonard Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 6:31 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Software to track website changes? Does anyone have a good way to track requests to make changes to your website(s)? I would like to be able to put in requests and be able to track if they are done and when, so there's fewer emails flying about. E Elizabeth Leonard Assistant Dean of Information Technologies, Resources Acquisition and Description Seton Hall University 400 South Orange Avenue South Orange, NJ 07079 973-761-9445 -- Jesse Martinez Web Services Librarian O'Neill Library, Boston College jesse.marti...@bc.edu 617-552-2509
