Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-21 Thread Michele DeSilva
[mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Riley-Huff, Debra Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 9:38 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists We built our A-Z list, Databases by Subject and Database Trials sets in Drupal. It has worked out really well for us and we also have those

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-20 Thread Riley-Huff, Debra
We built our A-Z list, Databases by Subject and Database Trials sets in Drupal. It has worked out really well for us and we also have those lists populate our subject guides through taxonomy. http://apollo.lib.olemiss.edu/guides/glossary/dbases-az If you are interested in how we built any of

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-18 Thread Joyce Ouchida
We use Serials Solutions to manage our databases on the backend. For our website A-Z and category browse, custom PHP scripts use the XML API to generate HTML pages for individual entries and the various lists -- a cron job refreshes the content daily. Our university used to offer a Google

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-17 Thread Tim McGeary
At Lehigh, I've extracted e-journals from our SirsiDynix Symphony catalog via API into alphabetical and discipline-based XML documents. We then index those documents with Swish-e (http://www.swish-e.org/) and display the browse-able XML alphabetized lists and search interface in our

[CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-16 Thread Michele DeSilva
Hi Code4Lib-ers, I want to chime in and say that I, too, enjoyed the streaming archive from the conference. I also have a question: my library has a horribly antiquated A to Z list of databases and online resources (it's based in Access). We'd like to do something that looks more modern and

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-16 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
We have Metalib and use Xerxes as a front-end to Metalib, so we just use Xerxes as our A-Z list, or directory or databases too. But what I'd really like to do is just _use the catalog_. If there was a good interface for the catalog, and these resources were included in it's search... why

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-16 Thread Naomi Dushay
if you put the info in a Solr index, you could use Blacklight on top. On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Michele DeSilva wrote: Hi Code4Lib-ers, I want to chime in and say that I, too, enjoyed the streaming archive from the conference. I also have a question: my library has a horribly

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-16 Thread Dhanushka Samarakoon
Hi Michele, We created one using wordpress (which is not yet live) If you are interested in that route, I'll be happy to share the details with you. Dhanushka. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Michele DeSilva mdesi...@cocc.edu wrote: Hi Code4Lib-ers, I want to chime in and say that I, too,

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-16 Thread Dhanushka Samarakoon
If search is your priority, then I think solr would be a better option. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Dhanushka Samarakoon dhan...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Michele, We created one using wordpress (which is not yet live) If you are interested in that route, I'll be happy to share the details

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-16 Thread Nadaleen F Tempelman-Kluit
, February 16, 2011 4:29 pm Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU if you put the info in a Solr index, you could use Blacklight on top. On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Michele DeSilva wrote: Hi Code4Lib-ers, I want to chime in and say that I, too, enjoyed the streaming

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-16 Thread Thompson, Keri
: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists We user Xerxes too to serve up our databases A-Z list but as we have so many databases (900 or so.) that it takes a really long time for the page to load, as the way Xerxes is currently designed, it loads the whole A-Z list at once. So if you have a large number

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-16 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
. From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Thompson, Keri [thomps...@si.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 5:46 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists We have a home grown system built on CF/MSSQL. It currently

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-16 Thread Markus Fischer
The cheapest and best A to Z list i know is the german EZB: http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=Acolors=7lang=en This list is maintained by hunderds of libraries. You just mark those journals you have licensed and that's it. Not very widely known: they do also provide