Re: [CODE4LIB] Web app for material order

[Cary Gordon]

This looks very interesting. Is it licensed under an open source license?

If it is, it would be totally appropriate to put it on GitHub and let the 
community build it out. All that is needed is the aforementioned license and 
some person or cult to vet pull requests and coordinate testing.

I think that trying to organize a formal project ala Sakai would require 
committed resources and be very hard to pull off.

Thanks,

Cary

> On Dec 15, 2014, at 6:23 PM, KLINGLER, THOMAS  wrote:
> 
> At Kent State in recent years we've built a system, Selection Manager (TM) , 
> that does all these things and much more.  In addition to the five items 
> below in Kelly's request, it allows folks to see everything under review.  If 
> you're authenticated with campus credentials, you can access trial URLs and 
> passwords, enter scores and reviews, see scores and reviews from throughout 
> campus, get alerts to item status changes,.   Staff can track basic 
> license parameters, track multiple vendor quotes, assign workflow components 
> to other staff,.export the license and bib info into the local ILS,...  
> Search by subject, vendor , title,... sort for all active trials,...etc, etc, 
> etc
> 
> We have used Selection Manager in production at Kent State for several years 
> in Technical Services and don't know how we lived without it.  The thousands 
> of emails are gone and every 
> request/quote/trial/decision/evaluation/score/fund suggestion/ etc is tracked 
> in Selection  Manager.
> 
> Funny that Kelly says " this is before an order goes into the ILS." When the 
> system was under development, my project name for it was:  Pre-ILS.  I chose 
> the name to indicate that the system was designed to track all the selection 
> work that happened BEFORE an item found its way into the ILS.  For years now 
> I've said that Pre-ILS, now Selection Manager, is the ILS module that the ILS 
> vendor community forgot to build for the past forty years !!
> 
> 
> The super simple public view is available here:
> 
> Splash page:
> http://www2.kent.edu/library/about/depts/technicalservices/selection-manager.cfm
> 
> Selection Manager:
> http://apps.library.kent.edu/selectionmanager/
> 
> 
> 
> Recent presentation with tons of screen shots:
> http://works.bepress.com/tom_klingler/6/
> 
> 
> At the public, non-authenticated page, you can only see the simple level.  
> Campus authentication is required to see trial info and submit scores.  
> Library intranet access is necessary for the staff side and the workflow 
> operations.
> 
> Over the years, I've shown Selection Manager at lots of conferences, and, all 
> modesty aside, folks uniformly love it.  As I approach retirement, I've been 
> showing it to lots of vendors and telling them to just take the ideas and 
> build it out.  Have shown it to III, ProQuest, EBSCO, etc.  ...nobody has 
> agreed to proceed, even though I say all I'd want in return is a steak and a 
> martini.
> 
> *I propose that we make Selection Manager into an Open Source project of 
> the Code4Lib community.  (We wrote it too fast and hard-wired it in to too 
> much of our existing automation; hence,  it's not on GitHub.) We could 
> organize a team, write the specs, abstract things out to a level where the 
> system would have modules that allowed everything to be configurable for a 
> local install.  The current system is about 10,000 lines of PHP and was about 
> a man-year of work.  I'd guess that we'd want a team of about 5 
> selection/acquisitions folks to review/write/refresh the specifications and 
> about 5 developers to work as a team to build out the thing.  Then we would 
> ALL end up with a rich system that was hugely helpful.  And, we'd end up with 
> a community of devoted developers and users who could support each other and 
> the system going forward.
> 
> Of course this sounds like a wacky idea, and, yes, I'm an old software hippie 
> by nature,but, let me know if you're interested in the project.
> 
> If you've read this far, thanks for your time and attention.
> 
> Tom Klingler
> Assistant Dean for Systems, Collections,and Technical Services
> Kent State University
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 15, 2014, at 6:39 PM, "Cary Gordon"  wrote:
> 
>> This would be pretty simple to build with Drupal webforms, workflow or 
>> workbench and views.
>> 
>> Cary
>> 
>>> On Dec 15, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Kaile Zhu  wrote:
>>> 
>>> This is mainly for acquisition dept. to use before ordering and receiving:
>>> 
>>> 1.   Web based
>>> 
>>> 2.   Allow librarians and faculty to request a material
>>> 
>>> 3.   One requested, notify acquisition staff for process
>>> 
>>> 4.   Acquisition staff can view, edit,  input the order status
>>> 
>>> 5.   Generate reports by various parameters, such as requester, dates, 
>>> departments, vendors, etc.
>>> 
>>> Basically, this is before an order goes into the ILS.
>>> 
>>> Has anybody already done something like this?Currently, w

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web app for material order

[Cornel Darden Jr.]

Hello,

Sounds awesome! Count me in!

Thanks,

Cornel Darden Jr.  
MSLIS
Library Department Chair
South Suburban College
7087052945

"Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong 
learning."

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 15, 2014, at 8:23 PM, KLINGLER, THOMAS  wrote:
> 
> At Kent State in recent years we've built a system, Selection Manager (TM) , 
> that does all these things and much more.  In addition to the five items 
> below in Kelly's request, it allows folks to see everything under review.  If 
> you're authenticated with campus credentials, you can access trial URLs and 
> passwords, enter scores and reviews, see scores and reviews from throughout 
> campus, get alerts to item status changes,.   Staff can track basic 
> license parameters, track multiple vendor quotes, assign workflow components 
> to other staff,.export the license and bib info into the local ILS,...  
> Search by subject, vendor , title,... sort for all active trials,...etc, etc, 
> etc
> 
> We have used Selection Manager in production at Kent State for several years 
> in Technical Services and don't know how we lived without it.  The thousands 
> of emails are gone and every 
> request/quote/trial/decision/evaluation/score/fund suggestion/ etc is tracked 
> in Selection  Manager.
> 
> Funny that Kelly says " this is before an order goes into the ILS." When the 
> system was under development, my project name for it was:  Pre-ILS.  I chose 
> the name to indicate that the system was designed to track all the selection 
> work that happened BEFORE an item found its way into the ILS.  For years now 
> I've said that Pre-ILS, now Selection Manager, is the ILS module that the ILS 
> vendor community forgot to build for the past forty years !!
> 
> 
> The super simple public view is available here:
> 
> Splash page:
> http://www2.kent.edu/library/about/depts/technicalservices/selection-manager.cfm
> 
> Selection Manager:
> http://apps.library.kent.edu/selectionmanager/
> 
> 
> 
> Recent presentation with tons of screen shots:
> http://works.bepress.com/tom_klingler/6/
> 
> 
> At the public, non-authenticated page, you can only see the simple level.  
> Campus authentication is required to see trial info and submit scores.  
> Library intranet access is necessary for the staff side and the workflow 
> operations.
> 
> Over the years, I've shown Selection Manager at lots of conferences, and, all 
> modesty aside, folks uniformly love it.  As I approach retirement, I've been 
> showing it to lots of vendors and telling them to just take the ideas and 
> build it out.  Have shown it to III, ProQuest, EBSCO, etc.  ...nobody has 
> agreed to proceed, even though I say all I'd want in return is a steak and a 
> martini.
> 
> *I propose that we make Selection Manager into an Open Source project of 
> the Code4Lib community.  (We wrote it too fast and hard-wired it in to too 
> much of our existing automation; hence,  it's not on GitHub.) We could 
> organize a team, write the specs, abstract things out to a level where the 
> system would have modules that allowed everything to be configurable for a 
> local install.  The current system is about 10,000 lines of PHP and was about 
> a man-year of work.  I'd guess that we'd want a team of about 5 
> selection/acquisitions folks to review/write/refresh the specifications and 
> about 5 developers to work as a team to build out the thing.  Then we would 
> ALL end up with a rich system that was hugely helpful.  And, we'd end up with 
> a community of devoted developers and users who could support each other and 
> the system going forward.
> 
> Of course this sounds like a wacky idea, and, yes, I'm an old software hippie 
> by nature,but, let me know if you're interested in the project.
> 
> If you've read this far, thanks for your time and attention.
> 
> Tom Klingler
> Assistant Dean for Systems, Collections,and Technical Services
> Kent State University
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Dec 15, 2014, at 6:39 PM, "Cary Gordon"  wrote:
>> 
>> This would be pretty simple to build with Drupal webforms, workflow or 
>> workbench and views.
>> 
>> Cary
>> 
>>> On Dec 15, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Kaile Zhu  wrote:
>>> 
>>> This is mainly for acquisition dept. to use before ordering and receiving:
>>> 
>>> 1.   Web based
>>> 
>>> 2.   Allow librarians and faculty to request a material
>>> 
>>> 3.   One requested, notify acquisition staff for process
>>> 
>>> 4.   Acquisition staff can view, edit,  input the order status
>>> 
>>> 5.   Generate reports by various parameters, such as requester, dates, 
>>> departments, vendors, etc.
>>> 
>>> Basically, this is before an order goes into the ILS.
>>> 
>>> Has anybody already done something like this?Currently, we do the job 
>>> by email.  There is no way we can track the pre-order information in a 
>>> meaningful way.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Kelly Zhu
>>> 405-974-5947

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web app for material order

[KLINGLER, THOMAS]

At Kent State in recent years we've built a system, Selection Manager (TM) , 
that does all these things and much more.  In addition to the five items below 
in Kelly's request, it allows folks to see everything under review.  If you're 
authenticated with campus credentials, you can access trial URLs and passwords, 
enter scores and reviews, see scores and reviews from throughout campus, get 
alerts to item status changes,.   Staff can track basic license parameters, 
track multiple vendor quotes, assign workflow components to other 
staff,.export the license and bib info into the local ILS,...  Search by 
subject, vendor , title,... sort for all active trials,...etc, etc, etc

We have used Selection Manager in production at Kent State for several years in 
Technical Services and don't know how we lived without it.  The thousands of 
emails are gone and every request/quote/trial/decision/evaluation/score/fund 
suggestion/ etc is tracked in Selection  Manager.

Funny that Kelly says " this is before an order goes into the ILS." When the 
system was under development, my project name for it was:  Pre-ILS.  I chose 
the name to indicate that the system was designed to track all the selection 
work that happened BEFORE an item found its way into the ILS.  For years now 
I've said that Pre-ILS, now Selection Manager, is the ILS module that the ILS 
vendor community forgot to build for the past forty years !!


The super simple public view is available here:

Splash page:
http://www2.kent.edu/library/about/depts/technicalservices/selection-manager.cfm

Selection Manager:
http://apps.library.kent.edu/selectionmanager/



Recent presentation with tons of screen shots:
http://works.bepress.com/tom_klingler/6/


At the public, non-authenticated page, you can only see the simple level.  
Campus authentication is required to see trial info and submit scores.  Library 
intranet access is necessary for the staff side and the workflow operations.

Over the years, I've shown Selection Manager at lots of conferences, and, all 
modesty aside, folks uniformly love it.  As I approach retirement, I've been 
showing it to lots of vendors and telling them to just take the ideas and build 
it out.  Have shown it to III, ProQuest, EBSCO, etc.  ...nobody has agreed to 
proceed, even though I say all I'd want in return is a steak and a martini.

*I propose that we make Selection Manager into an Open Source project of 
the Code4Lib community.  (We wrote it too fast and hard-wired it in to too much 
of our existing automation; hence,  it's not on GitHub.) We could organize a 
team, write the specs, abstract things out to a level where the system would 
have modules that allowed everything to be configurable for a local install.  
The current system is about 10,000 lines of PHP and was about a man-year of 
work.  I'd guess that we'd want a team of about 5 selection/acquisitions folks 
to review/write/refresh the specifications and about 5 developers to work as a 
team to build out the thing.  Then we would ALL end up with a rich system that 
was hugely helpful.  And, we'd end up with a community of devoted developers 
and users who could support each other and the system going forward.

Of course this sounds like a wacky idea, and, yes, I'm an old software hippie 
by nature,but, let me know if you're interested in the project.

If you've read this far, thanks for your time and attention.

Tom Klingler
Assistant Dean for Systems, Collections,and Technical Services
Kent State University






On Dec 15, 2014, at 6:39 PM, "Cary Gordon"  wrote:

> This would be pretty simple to build with Drupal webforms, workflow or 
> workbench and views.
> 
> Cary
> 
>> On Dec 15, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Kaile Zhu  wrote:
>> 
>> This is mainly for acquisition dept. to use before ordering and receiving:
>> 
>> 1.   Web based
>> 
>> 2.   Allow librarians and faculty to request a material
>> 
>> 3.   One requested, notify acquisition staff for process
>> 
>> 4.   Acquisition staff can view, edit,  input the order status
>> 
>> 5.   Generate reports by various parameters, such as requester, dates, 
>> departments, vendors, etc.
>> 
>> Basically, this is before an order goes into the ILS.
>> 
>> Has anybody already done something like this?Currently, we do the job by 
>> email.  There is no way we can track the pre-order information in a 
>> meaningful way.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Kelly Zhu
>> 405-974-5947

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web app for material order

[Cornel Darden Jr.]

Hello,

Google forms and sheets maybe with some custom scripts. Also, if you guys have 
Libguides, that may do it. 

Thanks,

Cornel Darden Jr.  
MSLIS
Library Department Chair
South Suburban College
7087052945

"Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong 
learning."

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 15, 2014, at 4:39 PM, Kaile Zhu  wrote:
> 
> This is mainly for acquisition dept. to use before ordering and receiving:
> 
> 1.   Web based
> 
> 2.   Allow librarians and faculty to request a material
> 
> 3.   One requested, notify acquisition staff for process
> 
> 4.   Acquisition staff can view, edit,  input the order status
> 
> 5.   Generate reports by various parameters, such as requester, dates, 
> departments, vendors, etc.
> 
> Basically, this is before an order goes into the ILS.
> 
> Has anybody already done something like this?Currently, we do the job by 
> email.  There is no way we can track the pre-order information in a 
> meaningful way.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kelly Zhu
> 405-974-5947

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hosting services for Wikimedia

[Craig Franklin]

Hi Jeremy,

Do you mean hosting for *MediaWiki* software?

Cheers,
Craig Franklin
On 16 December 2014 at 10:28, Jeremy C. Shellhase <
jeremy.shellh...@humboldt.edu> wrote:
>
> Does anybody have a recommendation for a hosting service for Wikimedia?
> I'd normally think of installing something like this locally, but our
> centralized IT isn't up to the task and I have no staff or servers anymore.
>
> I'd like to be able to use plug-ins that I find and be able to use our
> campus' CAS/LDAP for authentication instead of host-based.
>
> We're just looking to replicate the internal communication services of an
> intranet web server for a small (31 person) Library.
>
> Happy holidays to all.
>
> Jeremy C. Shellhase
> Systems Librarian *and*
> Bibliographer/Instructor for Business, Economics, Education, Child
> Development, Psychology, Social Work
> Humboldt State University Library
> One Harpst Street
> Arcata, California 95521
> 707-826-3144 (voice)
> 707-826-3441 (fax)
> jeremy.shellh...@humboldt.edu
>

[CODE4LIB] Hosting services for Wikimedia

[Jeremy C. Shellhase]

Does anybody have a recommendation for a hosting service for Wikimedia?
I'd normally think of installing something like this locally, but our
centralized IT isn't up to the task and I have no staff or servers anymore.

I'd like to be able to use plug-ins that I find and be able to use our
campus' CAS/LDAP for authentication instead of host-based.

We're just looking to replicate the internal communication services of an
intranet web server for a small (31 person) Library.

Happy holidays to all.

Jeremy C. Shellhase
Systems Librarian *and*
Bibliographer/Instructor for Business, Economics, Education, Child
Development, Psychology, Social Work
Humboldt State University Library
One Harpst Street
Arcata, California 95521
707-826-3144 (voice)
707-826-3441 (fax)
jeremy.shellh...@humboldt.edu

[CODE4LIB] Job: Assistant Librarian, Electronic Services/Cataloger/Inter-library loans at Dominican College

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The Assistant Librarian reports directly to the College's Head Librarian.

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The successful candidate will have an earned MLS degree and recent

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Web app for material order

[Cary Gordon]

This would be pretty simple to build with Drupal webforms, workflow or 
workbench and views.

Cary

> On Dec 15, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Kaile Zhu  wrote:
> 
> This is mainly for acquisition dept. to use before ordering and receiving:
> 
> 1.   Web based
> 
> 2.   Allow librarians and faculty to request a material
> 
> 3.   One requested, notify acquisition staff for process
> 
> 4.   Acquisition staff can view, edit,  input the order status
> 
> 5.   Generate reports by various parameters, such as requester, dates, 
> departments, vendors, etc.
> 
> Basically, this is before an order goes into the ILS.
> 
> Has anybody already done something like this?Currently, we do the job by 
> email.  There is no way we can track the pre-order information in a 
> meaningful way.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kelly Zhu
> 405-974-5947

[CODE4LIB] Web app for material order

[Kaile Zhu]

This is mainly for acquisition dept. to use before ordering and receiving:

1.   Web based

2.   Allow librarians and faculty to request a material

3.   One requested, notify acquisition staff for process

4.   Acquisition staff can view, edit,  input the order status

5.   Generate reports by various parameters, such as requester, dates, 
departments, vendors, etc.

Basically, this is before an order goes into the ILS.

Has anybody already done something like this?Currently, we do the job by 
email.  There is no way we can track the pre-order information in a meaningful 
way.

Thanks.

Kelly Zhu
405-974-5947

Re: [CODE4LIB] Easy Borrow or another way to automate search/request across multiple catalogs?

[Brian Kennison]

On Dec 15, 2014, at 2:02 PM, Darylyne Provost 
mailto:dprov...@colby.edu>> wrote:

I'm sure many other libraries have similar issues: our patrons have so many
disparate catalogs to search/request it is confusing and cumbersome. I'm
not a programmer, and we don't have one on staff at this time. So, I am
trying to find an existing solution for which we might be able to outsource
customization and then turn to internal (campus) support for help with
maintenance.

Take a look at “MasterKey” from IndexData, it will do what you want (Borrow 
Direct is built by them)


—Brian

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Hours Fail

[Tom Keays]

I've been playing with the hours options in LibCal. I especially like being
able to pull out today's hours so easily. LibCal gives you options to do
this using HTML (iframe), JavaScript, JSON, or RSS.

HTML and JavaScript both format the output in a table, which is probably
desirable if you have multiple locations, but maybe less good if you have
one location only. That made me want to look into rolling my own solution
using the JSON option.

The problem is that to avoid XSS vulnerabilities, you can't use plain JSON,
but must instead use JSONP, which is NOT an option being offered by LibCal
(if anybody knows otherwise, I'd appreciate the information).

So, my solution was to write a meatball PHP script that wraps the JSON in a
JSONP callback. I wish I didn't have to do the extra server hop, but it
works. Here's my demo.

http://codepen.io/tomkeays/pen/EaKrgg/?editors=101

Now, I wish there was a JSON option to display a week's worth of hours for
a given location instead of just the one day's worth.


On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Heidi Steiner Burkhardt <
hmstei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mary,
>
> You mentioned LibCal and I do not think anyone else has addressed this
> yet...you can use the Hours module for one location with the free version
> . The one location piece is the only
> limitation...so it should work for you if you just need it for one
> library's hours. It is what we use on our website
> . You can set the hours
> for the whole year (using templates and exceptions) and then do not have to
> worry about it. There are a few different widget/API options
> .
>
> All best,
> Heidi
>
> --
> Heidi Steiner Burkhardt
> Head of Digital Services
> Kreitzberg Library, Norwich University
> 158 Harmon Dr. Northfield, Vermont
> 802.485.2171
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Mary E. Hanlin 
> 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
> >
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Easy Borrow or another way to automate search/request across multiple catalogs?

[Kyle Banerjee]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Darylyne Provost 
wrote:

> Thanks so much for your reply. Our patrons currently must choose from our
> combined ILS CBBCat (III's Sierra), which we share with two other colleges;
> three consortial systems, NExpress, MaineInfoNet, and as of tomorrow,
> ConnectNY (all III's INNreach); and then, if they have searched all of
> those systems and not been able to locate/request their item, interlibrary
> loan (WorldCat/Illiad).


You have a number of options, one of which is super low tech and easy to
implement. That option is to create javascript buttons that say "replicate
this search in " The javascript then scrapes the address bar to figure
out what kind of search they did and sends it with the correct syntax to
the other catalogs. Super lightweight, very easy to maintain and update,
and people get to search from their home system.

The second option is z39.50 -- assuming that the III libraries purchased
the z39.50 server product and the Koha system has a 39.50 server
configured. This has the advantage over the javascript method of searching
all the systems at the same time, but you have to interpret what comes back
and present it. Note that materials that appear available via z39.50 may
only be available to local patrons because there's no way to distinguish
borrowing privileges remotely.

If z39.50 is not an option, any federated search will be based on screen
scraping which I would not recommend.

The third major option are data dumps into a union catalog that people can
search. This will search nicely, but you have to develop a search interface
and getting real time availability is going to be problematic.

As far as requesting goes, how do patrons request stuff that's not at their
home system? Do they have accounts in the other systems (i.e. can they log
in like regular patrons) or is there a special request screen that
initiates an ILL process?

kyle

Re: [CODE4LIB] Easy Borrow or another way to automate search/request across multiple catalogs?

[Rainwater, Jean]

Hi Darylyne,

This easyBorrow system was developed at Brown to mask the complexities of
our consortial and shared resource arrangements and to forestall users
going directly to the slowest and most expensive service.  It has been very
successful locally and there has been some interest in it especially from
other members of one of the consortia we belong to (BorrowDirect).  There's
contact information on the page you cite if you want more information.

Jean

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Darylyne Provost 
wrote:
>
> I'm new to Code4Lib, so just want to say "hi" first of all :)
>
> I've searched the archives but didn't find an answer. I am wondering if
> anyone has experience with Easy Borrow
> , or can anyone suggest
> other potential solutions to automate searching and requesting across
> multiple catalogs?
>
> I'm sure many other libraries have similar issues: our patrons have so many
> disparate catalogs to search/request it is confusing and cumbersome. I'm
> not a programmer, and we don't have one on staff at this time. So, I am
> trying to find an existing solution for which we might be able to outsource
> customization and then turn to internal (campus) support for help with
> maintenance.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any suggestions!
>
> Darylyne
>
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> Colby College
> 207.859.5117
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Easy Borrow or another way to automate search/request across multiple catalogs?

[Darylyne Provost]

Hi Kyle,

Thanks so much for your reply. Our patrons currently must choose from our
combined ILS CBBCat (III's Sierra), which we share with two other colleges;
three consortial systems, NExpress, MaineInfoNet, and as of tomorrow,
ConnectNY (all III's INNreach); and then, if they have searched all of
those systems and not been able to locate/request their item, interlibrary
loan (WorldCat/Illiad).

I'm probably not articulating it well, but I am trying to find a solution
similar to what I understand Easy Borrow to be - a program that automates
searching across those disparate systems, presenting a request option to
the patron at the point which the item is found.

I hope this clarifies it a bit. I know that this is a point of frustration
for patrons, so am hoping to find a solution to streamline the process. I'm
sure it is much more complex that I even imagine :)

Thanks,

Darylyne

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Assistant Director for Systems, Web, & Emerging Technologies
Colby College
207.859.5117
dprov...@colby.edu

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Kyle Banerjee 
wrote:
>
> The answer depends on your objective. The quick answer to your question is
> that union catalogs are easier to maintain and generally work better than
> federated searches.
>
> Can you say a bit more about what catalogs need to be searched and what
> needs to happen? For example, do the catalogs in question belong to a
> consortium and is the mechanism used to get patrons books from libraries
> other than their home libraries more circ or ILL based? What kinds of
> systems are involved and how have you been dealing with the need you're
> hoping to meet so far? Thanks,
>
> kyle
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Darylyne Provost 
> wrote:
>
> > I'm new to Code4Lib, so just want to say "hi" first of all :)
> >
> > I've searched the archives but didn't find an answer. I am wondering if
> > anyone has experience with Easy Borrow
> > , or can anyone
> suggest
> > other potential solutions to automate searching and requesting across
> > multiple catalogs?
> >
> > I'm sure many other libraries have similar issues: our patrons have so
> many
> > disparate catalogs to search/request it is confusing and cumbersome. I'm
> > not a programmer, and we don't have one on staff at this time. So, I am
> > trying to find an existing solution for which we might be able to
> outsource
> > customization and then turn to internal (campus) support for help with
> > maintenance.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for any suggestions!
> >
> > Darylyne
> >
> > **
> > Darylyne Provost
> > Assistant Director for Systems, Web, & Emerging Technologies
> > Colby College
> > 207.859.5117
> > dprov...@colby.edu
> >
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Easy Borrow or another way to automate search/request across multiple catalogs?

[Kyle Banerjee]

The answer depends on your objective. The quick answer to your question is
that union catalogs are easier to maintain and generally work better than
federated searches.

Can you say a bit more about what catalogs need to be searched and what
needs to happen? For example, do the catalogs in question belong to a
consortium and is the mechanism used to get patrons books from libraries
other than their home libraries more circ or ILL based? What kinds of
systems are involved and how have you been dealing with the need you're
hoping to meet so far? Thanks,

kyle


On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Darylyne Provost 
wrote:

> I'm new to Code4Lib, so just want to say "hi" first of all :)
>
> I've searched the archives but didn't find an answer. I am wondering if
> anyone has experience with Easy Borrow
> , or can anyone suggest
> other potential solutions to automate searching and requesting across
> multiple catalogs?
>
> I'm sure many other libraries have similar issues: our patrons have so many
> disparate catalogs to search/request it is confusing and cumbersome. I'm
> not a programmer, and we don't have one on staff at this time. So, I am
> trying to find an existing solution for which we might be able to outsource
> customization and then turn to internal (campus) support for help with
> maintenance.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any suggestions!
>
> Darylyne
>
> **
> Darylyne Provost
> Assistant Director for Systems, Web, & Emerging Technologies
> Colby College
> 207.859.5117
> dprov...@colby.edu
>

[CODE4LIB] Easy Borrow or another way to automate search/request across multiple catalogs?

[Darylyne Provost]

I'm new to Code4Lib, so just want to say "hi" first of all :)

I've searched the archives but didn't find an answer. I am wondering if
anyone has experience with Easy Borrow
, or can anyone suggest
other potential solutions to automate searching and requesting across
multiple catalogs?

I'm sure many other libraries have similar issues: our patrons have so many
disparate catalogs to search/request it is confusing and cumbersome. I'm
not a programmer, and we don't have one on staff at this time. So, I am
trying to find an existing solution for which we might be able to outsource
customization and then turn to internal (campus) support for help with
maintenance.

Many thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Darylyne

**
Darylyne Provost
Assistant Director for Systems, Web, & Emerging Technologies
Colby College
207.859.5117
dprov...@colby.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] what good books did you read in 2014?

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

This year I discovered the work of Nnedi Okorafor. I'm still working
my way through her oeuvre, but I enjoyed her short story collection
Kabu Kabu.  Recommended for folks who enjoy science fiction and
fantasy.

As far as non-fiction is concerned, I enjoyed The Homing Instinct:
Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration by Bernd Heinrich.

Regards,

Galen

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Jacobs, Jane W
 wrote:
> In my earlier post I failed to mention two of my personal favorites: Urban 
> Tigers and the (conveniently titled) Urban Tigers Two.  These are 
> fictionalized anecdotes from the author's experiences working at a veterinary 
> hospital devoted exclusively to feline practice.  If you liked James 
> Herriot's and Nick Trout's books, these are for you.  Being self-published 
> they obviously haven't gotten all the publicity they deserve, but are easily 
> available on Amazon 
> (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=urban+tigers+kathy+chisholm)
>  or by interlibrary loan.
>
>
>
> My complete review can be seen at: 
> http://www.queenslibrary.org/blog/review-urban-tigers-tales-of-a-cat-vet
>
>
>
> Disclaimer: I have made friends with the author and am a big supporter of her 
> efforts to spay and neuter feral cats as well as introducing improved animal 
> treatment laws in her native Halifax, Nova Scotia. (http://tuxedostan.com/)  
> My opinions are quite sincere, but perhaps not unbiased!
>
>
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