[CODE4LIB] Final Call and See you soon for Code4Lib North

2015-05-27 Thread Tim Ribaric
Hello All, In about a week the 2015 Code4Lib North meet up will be held at St. Catharines Public Library Downtown branch. There are still a couple of spot available! If you can only make one of the two days that works too. Details on the wiki:

[CODE4LIB] getting started with Drupal for library website

2015-05-27 Thread Ken Irwin
Hi folks, Thanks to all who responded a few weeks ago to my inquiry about updating the code on my library's website. Many folks suggested moving to a CMS, and I'm starting to look into that possibility, and particularly Drupal. In doing so, I'm hoping not to re-invent the wheel, and I'm hoping

Re: [CODE4LIB] getting started with Drupal for library website

2015-05-27 Thread Eric Phetteplace
Hi Ken, These tasks are pretty trivial with a custom content type for your databases and Views. I've done the exact setup you mention-database list, both grouped by subject A to Z-at my former workplace. Here's what the result looks like: http://info.chesapeake.edu/lrc/library/academic-databases

Re: [CODE4LIB] getting started with Drupal for library website

2015-05-27 Thread Mark Jordan
There's CUFTS, which is no longer under development as far as I know: http://researcher.sfu.ca/cufts CUFTS is under active development. Feel free to contact researcher-supp...@sfu.ca if you'd like more info. Mark

Re: [CODE4LIB] getting started with Drupal for library website

2015-05-27 Thread Jason Bengtson
I can't speak to doing this specifically on Drupal, but in terms of measuring clicks I would simplify. We use google analytics and at each place I've been I've just set up some custom events analytics code to record specific types of clicks. Here at the TMC Library we're now recording database

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser [call for worksets]

2015-05-27 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On May 26, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: In my copious spare time I have hacked together a thing I’m calling the HathiTrust Research Center Workset Browser, a (fledgling) tool for doing “distant reading” against corpora from the HathiTrust. [0] [0]

Re: [CODE4LIB] getting started with Drupal for library website

2015-05-27 Thread Karl Holten
What you are describing sounds quite a bit like a knowledge base. There a lot of commercial solutions for these types of things, but open source options are a bit more limited. There's CUFTS, which is no longer under development as far as I know: http://researcher.sfu.ca/cufts There's also

[CODE4LIB] Director, Southern Regional Library Facility (UCLA)

2015-05-27 Thread Erik Mitchell
Code4Lib colleagues - UCLA is looking for a Director of the Southern Regional Library Facility, a high density storage facility that serves the 10 campuses of University of California. In addition to managing the facility and staff, this position is responsible for strategic initiatives in

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

2015-05-27 Thread Karen Coyle
Eric, what happens if you access this from a non-HT institution? When I go to HT I am often unable to download public domain titles because they aren't available to members of the general public. kc On 5/26/15 8:30 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: In my copious spare time I have hacked together