Re: [CODE4LIB] Ebook reader app

Lauren, There actually is a group working toward exactly this type of goal. It's a IMLS grant-funded initiative being organized by NYPL called Library Simplified: http://www.librarysimplified.org/ You can find out more at the above link, but the basic goal of the project is to create an app

[CODE4LIB] JHOVE Evaluation and Stabilisation Report released

Dear All, In February the JHOVE format validation tool was transferred to OPF stewardship. We have now completed our initial review of JHOVE, and have identified all of the resources that we will maintain or preserve. The report is available on our new JHOVE product page

Re: [CODE4LIB] Not finding the FF add-on (was RE: [CODE4LIB] Chrome Extension for Enhancing LoC's EAD Documentation)

Thanks for bringing this up. There's been some back and forth with Mozilla getting the add-on approved. The page is back up: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/loc-ead-beautifier If the mozilla.org page goes down in the future...I've created a page that links to the chromstore and

[CODE4LIB] JAVA deployment and msi

Hi all - Oracle no longer offers .msi packages for JAVA which we have been using to deploy JAVA to library PCs on the network through Spec Ops. Anyone has a workaround? We have internally discussed download the msi package from Source Forge or pay for the 3rd party msi packaging service. Any

[CODE4LIB] Not finding the FF add-on (was RE: [CODE4LIB] Chrome Extension for Enhancing LoC's EAD Documentation)

Hi, Stephen! I'm getting a not found when trying to download the Firefox version linked to below; am I missing some crucial point? Thanks, Bobbi -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen Schor Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ebook reader app

Another approach- I think the Colorado consortium did this, is to whitelabel the Bluefire App, which works with any Adobe-DRM ebook. With the Rakuten acquisition of Overdrive, I think it it might be wise to let the dust settle and see what happens with Kobo. And I know of at least 2, maybe 3,

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Ebook reader app

Hi, If I'm not mistaken, this would require ebook vendors to expand their APIs to include the ability to checkout and download. I know of no vendor who does this. But maybe I'm wrong on both counts... Erik. -- Erik Sandall, MLIS Electronic Services Librarian Webmaster Mechanics' Institute

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ebook reader app

This is evidently what 3M and Overdrive are providing for vendors like III to integrate the ebook products with the ILS. The question will be, will those APIs be available to individual libraries, not just to ILS vendors? Cindy Harper char...@vts.edu -Original Message- From: Code for

Re: [CODE4LIB] JAVA deployment and msi

Hi Bohyun, How specifically are you deploying the msi package? I would imagine any organization large enough to have this problem to have Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager or some other kind of central software management. Msi files are nothing more than a payload with a special

Re: [CODE4LIB] JAVA deployment and msi

You have to extract the MSI from the standard package, it is actually quite straight forward. Here are the steps I followed: http://www.klaus-hartnegg.de/gpo/msi_java.html //Riley -- Riley Childs Senior IT Manager Library Services Administrator Charlotte United Christian Academy office: +1 (704)

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Lending/circulating independent ebooks

I have would suggest some kind of limited online viewer, unfortunately that doesn't make them DRM free. //Riley Sent from my Windows Phone -- Riley Childs Senior Charlotte United Christian Academy Library Services Administrator IT Services Administrator (704) 537-0331x101 (704) 497-2086

[CODE4LIB] Lending/circulating independent ebooks

Has anyone figured out how to circulate one-off/independent e-books to your library patrons? We have ebooks that are not from major vendors like EBL, etc that we have permission to loan. However, I want to be sure that we have some sort of controls on them so that we are not simply distributing

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lending/circulating independent ebooks

Hello, Maybe you could give a disclaimer and let the pattern know to delete the book after reading it. If it is DRM free and the publisher allows fire lending than what is the harm in lending it? Thanks, Cornel Darden Jr. MSLIS Library Department Chair South Suburban College 7087052945 Our

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lending/circulating independent ebooks

Unglue.it http://unglue.it/ implemented something like that as part of buy to unglue, using per-loan embedded licenses and watermarking. We've not had a lot of success getting publishers to buy into it. Or libraries. If you have applications, several of the components are open source. Eric

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ebook reader app

We're doing it through an ebook ILL approach at http://occamsreader.org -- still in a pilot project with Springer and the GWLA Libraries. The 2.0 viewer launching this fall includes a responsive design that looks great on phones and tablets. Kenny Ketner Software Development Manager Texas Tech

[CODE4LIB] a node.js module for processing MARC data

Hi, I wrote a Node.js module called marc4js for handling MARC data while trying to learn MARC and Node.js. I borrowed a lot of ideas from marc4j, ruby-marc and pymarc.The module is open-source and hosted on github. If you are interested please check it out at https://github.com/jiaola/marc4js.

[CODE4LIB] Survey of Librarians and Library Professionals Who Design Web Pages

For web designers who have not yet filled out the survey (below), I will leave it up through Friday, March 27th. Thank you to all who have participated! Jenny Brandon On 1/21/15, 7:05 PM, Jenny Brandon jbran...@mail.lib.msu.edu wrote: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/libwebdesign Librarians and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lending/circulating independent ebooks

I hate to sound like a broken record again, but this is exactly the approach we are taking with Occam's Reader. http://occamsreader.org Kenny Ketner Software Development Manager Texas Tech University Libraries kenny.ket...@ttu.edu 806-773-5323 Strategic - Ideation - Connectedness - Relator -

[CODE4LIB] marc4js - a node.js module for processing MARC data

Hi, I wrote a Node.js module for handling MARC data while trying to learn MARC and Node.js. I borrowed a lot of ideas from marc4j, ruby-marc and pymarc.The module is open-source and hosted on github. If you are interested please check it out at https://github.com/jiaola/marc4js. It’s still at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ebook reader app

Eben - Thanks for the Library Simplified link, that's exactly what I was looking for! It seems like academic libraries have work to do to lobby our vendors to enable us to create better / smoother user experiences. I suspect they won't make it easy though. The larger issue seems to be Adobe