Dear Laura:
I may have misinterpreted your intent for the tool... I've liked WidgetBox
if you want patrons to be able to paste the widget on like a course page
that isn't in the WebPAC.
http://www.widgetbox.com
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In peace,
Amy M. Drayer
Web and Systems Librarian
amost...@gmail.com
http://www.p
Dear Laura:
We have Millennium and are doing this. We have a few issues with images not
being available, but that is a separate problem we are working on:
http://mylibraryeu.fmwr.net
Millennium is great because your RSS feed can be pulled right back into the
WebPAC without requiring an outside s
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Laura Harris
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 10:07 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / "badge" with cover images?
Hi, all - I suspect something like this is
Invitation to the 34th ELAG conference, 9-11th June 2010,
"Meeting New User Expectations"
Helsinki, Finland
The ELAG (European Library Automation Group) Conference is Europe's premier
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Some ideas:
1) Use Feeds Imagegrabber (http://drupal.org/project/feeds_imagegrabber)
along with Feeds to create nodes that include their enclosures (cover
images) from the RSS feed. Once you have the items as nodes you can use
Views and the plethora of Views carrousel-like modules to display th
I would suggest using Yahoo! Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/) for
something like this. You can feed it your RSS feed, and add in some logic to
strip out extraneous information and the grey boxes.
-Sean
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Sean Hannan
Web Developer
Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
On Apr 9, 20
Hi, all - I suspect something like this is being done already, so I thought I
would check in and ask.
Essentially, what I would like to do is display the library's new books on a
web page in a graphic format - I'd like it to look very similar to the sorts of
widgets that GoodReads or LibraryTh
