Re: [CODE4LIB] looking for free hosting for html code

2015-05-22 Thread Riesner, Giles W.
SDF.ORG offers teachers and students accounts - Allows staff, volunteer or adjunct at an accredited college or K-12 to self-manage a virtual UNIX classroom. A prospective instructor should provide SDF with details regarding their class (such as a syllabus or lesson plan). Students create their

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux distro for librarians

2014-10-21 Thread Riesner, Giles W.
Back in 2004, Howard County Library in Columbia, MD rolled their own Linux and called it LuMix. A couple years later they switched over to Groovix, a Ubuntu derivative (http://groovix.com). Giles W. Riesner, Jr. | Lead Library Technician , Library Technology The Community College of Baltimore

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows 7 Logon Screen Screensaver

2014-08-13 Thread Riesner, Giles W.
FWIW, our IT folks have customized the logon screen on our Public PCs so that while it still says to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to login, above and below that is customized info: a welcome to the College and info on where to get guest passes if you're not part of the College community (Faculty

Re: [CODE4LIB] Barcode scanner

2014-07-01 Thread Riesner, Giles W.
Riley, Basically ANY barcode scanner would work for you. Barcode scanners simply read in data as though it was typed in from a keyboard. What matters is that you have the symbologies you need enabled. Library barcodes tend to be Codabar (which is not always enabled by default), while stores

[CODE4LIB] Open Source ERM

2013-09-19 Thread Riesner, Giles W.
One of our Librarians saw an article about ERMes, an open source ERM from the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse (http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/erm/) , and was asking about the possibility of our using it. If you're using it and wouldn't mind us picking your brain a little bit on it,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source ERM

2013-09-19 Thread Riesner, Giles W.
Peter On Sep 19, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Riesner, Giles W. gries...@ccbcmd.edu wrote: One of our Librarians saw an article about ERMes, an open source ERM from the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse (http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/erm/) , and was asking about the possibility of our using

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting The Call Number In bib_display.html On III System

2012-10-09 Thread Riesner, Giles W.
Kyle's suggestion to try the III listserv is a good one. Trying to use III's tokens within a script I would figure is challenging at best given their proprietary nature.and their quirks -- not the least of which are that when used on a web page the token must be on a line by itself and must

Re: [CODE4LIB] Query: Standalone - log file code - for tracking CDRom Usage

2008-07-22 Thread Riesner, Giles
A number of years back there was a CDROMLAN listserv, which was linked to the Usenet group bit.listserv.cdromlan. The list is shut down, but the archives are available from Google Groups at: http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.cdromlan/topics. Perhaps that will be of some help to you.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

2008-03-17 Thread Riesner, Giles
Given this latest information, I'd be rather hesitant to even try using Google's images as our network traffic is all NAT'ed and all student traffic from a campus goes out one ONE NAT address and ALL staff traffic on another (in our case x.x.x.204 and x.x.x.205). We currently use Amazon's

[CODE4LIB] Job Opening: Systems Librarian

2007-06-06 Thread Riesner, Giles
CCBC Libraries currently is looking for a Systems Librarian. Under the supervision of the Campus Head Librarian , the Systems Librarian manages the technology infrastructure of the CCBC Libraries including: the integrated library system, library computer labs, LAN-based services, UNIX and