Re: [CODE4LIB] Hours of Operation on Website - management tool
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 customized for events or closings, etc. We've been very happy with it. Laura Pope Robbins Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Joel Marchesoni jma...@email.wcu.edu wrote: It's not free or open source and it won't update your Google Places account but we've just started using LibCal and are pretty happy with it so far. It's easy to update, has the capability for hours, events, and room scheduling, and a decent API. Joel Marchesoni Tech Support Analyst Hunter Library, Western Carolina University http://library.wcu.edu/ 828-227-2860 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 09:01 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Hours of Operation on Website - management tool Hi folks, I'm hoping to find some sort of web-based app that can manage the library's hours of operations, including: * Displaying today's hours * Displaying an upcoming schedule of hours * Updatable though a GUI interface by non-techy library staff * Able to update our Google Places account hours (which, I note, currently lists our school-year hours as our open hours today), perhaps on a daily basis * Preferably a stand-alone thing that can provide data on an ad hoc basis (as opposed to a CMS-specific thing like a WP plugin or a Drupal module) * PHP preferred but not necessary * OSS / free preferred but not necessary I feel certain that someone else has already wanted this enough to create it. Anyone have a solution they're happy with? Thanks Ken
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
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 humanities and social sciences, I've found some publications for our faculty that they hadn't given me themselves. Laura Pope Robbins Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College On May 20, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Bornheimer, Bee eborn...@qualcomm.com wrote: Possibly the Mendeley API? http://dev.mendeley.com/getting_started/common_tasks.html It might also make a difference to know the domain in which these authors publish. Scopus indexes primarily scientific, technical, medical content. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Heller, Margaret Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 7:27 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author I've used the arXiv API for a similar purpose: http://arxiv.org/help/api/index. Margaret Heller Digital Services Librarian Loyola University Chicago 773-508-2686 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Pikas, Christina K. Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:22 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author The Scopus API: http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Hours Fail
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 a linux one. So, I had to rewrite it as php, but this always worked reliably. Take care, Laura Pope Robbins Dowling College On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Mary E. Hanlin mhan...@reynolds.edu wrote: Hi All, I know this has been covered a bit here, but I have a rather exigent conundrum, and I'm hoping to figure out the best/easiest solution. Yesterday, the script to hour library hours (on our front page) which pulls from Google calendar stopped working (Error at line undefined in undefined[!] - the exclamation point is mine; it seemed like it needed one.) Basically, the code came from a site that walked one through how to call daily hours (javascript) using Google's V2 API, but the V2 is fully deprecated (as I abruptly discovered), and I need to figure out another solution. (I haven't been able to find similar documentation for V3's API.) Some constraints: 1. Our IT will not support php.We are an .NET shop with IIS servers. 2. We may not have the dough to pay for something like LibCal which seems to me the easiest solution. 3. I'm semi-new to this Internets/webmaster thing, and really only know front-end coding, so a solution involving something like .NET, Python, etc. would have to have, How to make a peanut butter sandwich, kind of documentation. Right now, I've just manually coded our hours, which is fine until Saturday when our hours change, and I'm not here (hopefully). I will be super grateful for insight or knowledge. Mary. Mary Hanlin Electronic Resources and Web Librarian J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Phone:804.523.5323 Email: mhan...@reynolds.edu hours2.asp Description: Binary data
Re: [CODE4LIB] Tablet Uses for Library Staff
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 to carry chat with us and keep statistics on the go. Laura Pope Robbins Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College On Oct 15, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Today a few of us received our a few Surface Pros to use around the library. Being the digital content librarian for our University I really want to figure out some interesting things we can do with them. I have some thoughts on possibly working with inventory and my information literacy librarian colleague is thinking how to use them in the classroom. Yet, I wanted to poll the group and see what sorts of interesting things people are doing with tablets for their library staff, or ideas people might have for utilizing a Surface Pro in the library. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
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 citations for display in various places on our website. We went with that because I was already running various access databases on our website, and it was easy for me to set up. You can see it here: http://www.dowling.edu/library/facultybib/searchpubs.asp I've got our faculty pretty much on board with getting me their citations after several years, but there are things you can do to get buy in. One of the biggest selling points for us has been that accrediting bodies, like NCATE, want to see faculty publications. Our faculty also have to submit a yearly self evaluation and cv, so I usually time a call for latest publications right after that is due. They already have the info compiled, so it's easy for them to share at that point. The hardest thing will be the initial data entry. For that, we initially had web- based forms that I had several librarians working with me to use. Now, I do all of the maintenance. Laura Pope Robbins Associate Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu wrote: Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] what do you do: API accounts used by library software, that assume an individual is registered
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 full-time librarians. Laura Pope Robbins Associate Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College Library Phone: 631.244.5023 Fax: 631.244.3374 A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. --Tyrion Lannister in A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin On Mar 4, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Whether it's Amazon AWS, or Yahoo BOSS, or JournalTOCs, or almost anything else -- there are a variety of API's that library software wants to use, which require registering an account to use. They may or may not be free, sometimes they require a credit card attached too. Most of them assume that an individual person is creating an account, the account will be in that individual's name, with an email address, etc. This isn't quite right for a business or organization, like the library, right? What if that person leaves the organization? But all this existing software is using API keys attached to 'their' account? Or what if the person doesn't leave, but responsibilities for monitoring emails from the vendor (sent to that account) change? And even worse if there's an institutional credit card attached to that account. I am interested in hearing solutions or approaches that people have ACTUALLY tried to deal with this problem, and how well they have worked. I am NOT particularly interested in Well, you could try X or Y; I can think of a bunch of things I _could_ try myself, each with their potential strengths and weaknesses. I am interested in hearing about what people actually HAVE tried or done, and how well it has worked. Has anyone found a way to deal with this issue, other than having each API registered to an account belonging to whatever individual staff happened to be dealing with it that day? Thanks for any advice.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Wikis
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 portions of the wiki. I've been able to implement new features fairly quickly and easily. Laura Laura Pope Robbins Associate Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College Library Phone: 631.244.5023 Fax: 631.244.3374 A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. --Tyrion Lannister in A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin On Jul 25, 2012, at 9:22 AM, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Nathan Tallman ntall...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I'm worried about with MediaWiki. The syntax used when creating and editing pages isn't intuitive and I'm afraid people won't want to use it. I was hoping someone would recommend a wiki with more of a WYSIWYG type of editing interface. Was also hoping to stick with FLOSS, but perhaps I should at least peak at Confluence. It's still experimental but the Wikimedia Foundation is developing a visual WYSIWYG type editor. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor:Sandbox (try it) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor The goal is to make it easier to edit without the wiki syntax. There still will be an advanced edit option so that people can still use markup if they want. Cheers, Katie Filbert Thanks for the input, Nathan On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Nate Vack njv...@wisc.edu wrote: If you're expecting everyone to create and edit pages, it will be very hard to get widespread adoption with it. -- Katie Filbert Board member, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org filbe...@gmail.com @filbertkm / @wikimediadc
