I agree on the need for branding, and on offering the community several
professionally-developed choices.
I worded that carefully. I'd like to see a professionally-designed logo for
the same reason I like to watch good software developers at work: the
quality of effort doth pleaseth the citizens.
To build on Nate's suggestion...
Sorting a list of call numbers is pretty easy; doing it efficiently
for large datasets is rather more tricky. I'm not totally sure, but
the best course of action may be to transform the call numbers into
something indexable (say, a string) that follows the
Emily,
Are you using LC or Dewey?
A while back, I wanted to generate browsable lists of new books,
organized by topic. I ended up using the LC call number to group the
titles into manageable groups. Here's an example:
http://supportingcast.mannlib.cornell.edu/newbooks/?loc=mann
Titles are
Well, we're using LC and SUDOC here. What I really want is something
that is both searchable and browsable, so that users can type in a call
number and then browse backward and forward as much as they want in call
number order.
We have Endeca here, so my patrons can browse into the LC scheme
Why not just build a decent cover flow UI over the existing call number
browse in the catalog with Javascript? Just grab the cover images and
display them using something like http://www.deensoft.com/lab/protoflow/
That way you could recreate the 'browsing' experience, not have to have
the user
Hi,
One approach to the UI might be to use Cooliris (was piclens) and generate
a media rss file in call number order. It's limited (to people who have
installed cooliris) but it's essentially a coverflow. You can do other
things within the browser, but few are going to feel as immediate
We have something like this running in a prototype form at
http://www.lib.umich.edu/virtual/
Rather than being a pure browse tool, it lets users view our collection by
category so that related items across 20 physical locations can be viewed as
if on one shelf. Books that have been digitized and
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Edward M. Corrado
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am all for a logo, but I also agree with Kevin it needs to be a community
based decision. I'm also not sold that we need a professional designed logo,
but I'm not against it either.
If folks are in favor of someone
In the case of logo, as in many other cases, a professional hand is most
appropriate. Experience indicates that the result does not only depend on good
wishes, common sense and aesthetics.
Who would have imagined that Googles´s colored balls would be the right thing
for that brand?.
As said
How about we allow anyone to submit ideas, and use some of the $$ like
Roy suggested to get a professional one from someone--and then we vote
on all of them? I nominate Roy for coordinating the pro-design, and
the vote :-)
//Ed
+1
I like Rob's idea. It seems in the same vein as code4lib as an
(un)organization.
Kevin
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Rob Casson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
think it's a swell ideasolr is looking at a new logo, and this
site came up on-list:
http://99designs.com/
not
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