.@paulwalk Librarians! Cast off the chains of MARCist oppression! Smash the Spinning Booleans! Vive la Révolution Bibliothèque! — Dave Pattern (@daveyp) May 5, 2012
Posts under ‘Library Stuff’
More "stuff like this"…
Just a little follow on from the previous blog post… Spurred on by comments from Lisa, I'm exploring if we can filter the recommendations so that they become more relevant to students in a specific academic school, or even to students on a specific course, and the initial results look fairly promising Let's look at [...]
"People who looked at this thing, also looked at this stuff…"
We've had serendipity suggestions on the OPAC for nearly 7 years now, but they've been based entirely around the physical collection in the library. After Friday's Skype chat to the SPLURGE Hackfest, I got to thinking about how we can hook the e-stuff into the recommendations, so I've spent the weekend gathering data from our [...]
Tweaking the Summon Search Widget code
Summon has a really cool new custom search box building widget that includes the ability to pre-limit a search to a specific discipline (or disciplines). The widget also allows you to pre-select which facets to apply to the search. A question came up on the SummonClients mailing list asking if it was possible to exclude [...]
Hacking 360 Link
A quick plug for Matthew Reidsma's ace blog post about customising 360 Link with jQuery: "jQuery for Customizing Hosted Library Services
Roving Librarian
I love our new "Roving Librarian" service logo so much, I just had to post it here! …more info on the library's Facebook page
Using the Serials Solutions APIs for the MyReading project
I had planned to go along to SummonCamp at ALA Midwinter on Sunday and talk about using the Summon API but, perhaps all too predictably, I ended up staying up waaaaay too late on Saturday night sampling some yummy US beers, forgot to set my alarm and overslept Anyway, here's what I would have talked [...]
5 years of book loans and grades (revisited)
Nigel's comment on the "5 years of book loans and grades" post reminded me that I did do a breakdown by discipline of the same data. One of the caveats with this is that it represents nearly a decade's worth of usage and, during that time, the seven academic schools at Huddersfield have changed — [...]
Librarian/Shambrarian Venn Diagram
To go with Ned's "Great Library Stereotypometer", which seems to be lacking one vital item, here's a handy Venn Diagram… You may find it useful to copy the diagram out onto a small piece of card and keep about your person for reference purposes. If you are a librarian and you meet a shambrarian: DO [...]
Extending the availability messages in Summon
At the recent SummonCamp in New Orleans, there was a question about the local "Availability:" messages that appear in Summon for things like books, e.g. Availability: available, Huddersfield (Loan Collection Floor 6 – 2 wk loan) By default, Summon either scrapes your OPAC or makes use of an ILS/LMS API to get real time availability. [...]