cynthia, I can't help you but I can encourage you -- honestly, the call
numbers alone (especially in LCC where the notation is not a strict
hierarchy) are close to useless without the meanings. One might even
make the meanings more visible than the call numbers themselves (bolder,
placed
...Next: a smart phone app that reads books on a shelf and reports what the
call numbers mean...
_love_ this idea; thx for kicking off the c4l-hackfest topics! :)
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Brown University Library
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...Next: a smart phone app
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Interested in enhancing call-number browse in
Millennium catalog
...Next: a smart phone app that reads books on a shelf and reports what
the call numbers mean...
_love_ this idea; thx for kicking off the c4l-hackfest topics
This is going to be tricky. AFAIK, you can't modify the call number result
table on the fly without proxying since Mil doesn't let you get at the
routine that renders the call numbers.
If proxying is not what you had in mind and rendering the call number
meanings above the table is acceptable, I
: [CODE4LIB] Interested in enhancing call-number browse in
Millennium catalog
On 12/4/13 11:10 AM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
But this is horribly hacky and a lot of work for relatively little gain.
When you get right down to it, the only purpose of a call number is to
physically collocate materials
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This is going to be tricky. AFAIK, you can't modify the call number result
table
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:
You could do all this with Javascript and not have to worry about mucking
around with wwwoptions or any of that messy stuff. Just create a static
JSON or XML file in the webpac directory containing a list of all the
I'm thinking of trying to enhance the call-number browse pages on a
Millennium catalog with meanings of the classification ranges taken from
the LoC Classification database.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification.html
a typical call-number browse page might look like this:
