[CODE4LIB] NY Times Bookmarklet

2011-04-27 Thread Van Mil, James (vanmiljf)
Hi everyone! (first post!) We've been getting lots of feedback at my library about the problem with the NY Times paywall and the lack of institutional access to their website, but we do have a subscription to a Proquest database which includes all current content that is included in the print

Re: [CODE4LIB] What's the descriptive technical terminology?... pdf image of a page. pdf format used with cut paste.

2011-04-28 Thread Van Mil, James (vanmiljf)
I often employ the word 'raster', along with some other foul language, for any PDFs that don't have manipulate-able text. -James -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Keith Jenkins Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 1:06 PM To:

Re: [CODE4LIB] ulrich's api?

2013-01-02 Thread Van Mil, James (vanmiljf)
I just checked the SS Support Center and it is included with a sub to Ulrichsweb. I had confused this with the XML data service (which *does* cost extra), so I never followed up. Thanks for mentioning! -James -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] ulrich's api?

2013-01-02 Thread Van Mil, James (vanmiljf)
PM To: Code for Libraries Cc: Van Mil, James (vanmiljf) Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ulrich's api? Ah, did you find docs in the SS Support Center that cover how to access the API and what it's functionalty is? Have any direct links to such? Yeah, last time I asked SerSol (a couple years ago), the XML

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have a SUSHI client?

2013-01-24 Thread Van Mil, James (vanmiljf)
Hi Bill, There's a lightweight python client: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sushipy/ (I haven't used it, just know *of* it) Thanks, James James Van Mil Collections Electronic Resources Librarian University of Cincinnati Libraries Telephone: (513)556-1410 vanmi...@ucmail.uc.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have a SUSHI client?

2013-01-24 Thread Van Mil, James (vanmiljf)
We also have a developers listserv, if you run into any challenges: http://www.niso.org/lists/sushidevelopers/ (I'm on the SUSHI maintenance committee) Thanks, James James Van Mil Collections Electronic Resources Librarian University of Cincinnati Libraries Telephone: (513)556-1410

Re: [CODE4LIB] local APIs atop III's Sierra DB

2013-10-15 Thread Van Mil, James (vanmiljf)
Hi Jason, I've started looking into using ActiveRecord in Rails to plug into the Sierra Postgres tables. I'm still learning how to work with Ruby and Rails, but initial experiments are working: https://github.com/jamesvanmil/ActiveSierra (really have just written a few simple models with

[CODE4LIB] ActiveSierra - Gem for connecting to III Sierra db

2014-05-08 Thread Van Mil, James (vanmiljf)
My colleague Sean Crowe and I have written a simple Rails engine with models for the Postgresql database backend to Innovative Interfaces Inc. Sierra ILS. Within a host rails app, it can be used to spin up mediated access to the database via Ruby objects. With a few additional controllers, it

Re: [CODE4LIB] ActiveSierra - Gem for connecting to III Sierra db

2014-05-08 Thread Van Mil, James (vanmiljf)
Broome Library California State University, Channel Islands 805/437-3198 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Van Mil, James (vanmiljf) Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 11:29 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] ActiveSierra