Jenny Levine has linked to an excellent article by Roy Tennant on the Library Journal web site:
"What I Wish I Had Known"
I love Roy's statement that:
I wish I had known that the solution for needing to teach our users how to search our catalog was to create a system that didn't need to be taught [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2005’
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HIP Tips!
Do your 856 URLs show up in a big font size that doesn't seem to quite fit in with the rest of the text on the full bib page?
The quickest way to fix it is to fire up the Horizon table editor, select marc_map, and then locate the marc_map that you use for your 856 [...]
CODI 2005 – session links
I've put together a page listing each of the CODI 2005 sessions along with (hopefully!) all the PowerPoint, handout, podcast, blog, etc links.
http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/codi2005links.html
Please feel free to re-use the link or to circulate it.
If you have any additions or corrections, please email them to me:
d.c.pattern [at] hud.ac.uk
using "circ_tran" to show borrowing suggestions in HIP
One of the things we're trying to do this year at Huddersfield is to make better use of our data archives:
…as each student goes through a library turnstile, data is written away…
…as each student borrows a book, more data is quietly written away…
…as each student uses an electronic resource, data is written away…
…as each student [...]
Taggytastic! (part 2)
Wow! Fame and glory – hopefully the untold riches will be just around the corner!
For anyone who wants to have a go with their Horizon/HIP, I've uploaded the script to here:
http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/tags/
I've done a little bit of tweaking, and the final keyword list now looks like this.
You'll need to download the Perl script and [...]
Taggytastic!
Inspired by Jenny Levine's mock up of an OPAC with keyword tags, I've gone a step further and used our Horizon database (the "subject" table in particular) to generate a real page based on subject keywords with more than 10 bibs:
http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/subjects.html
I did a bit of tweaking so that sub-subjects (is that a real word?) are [...]
CODI 2005 – Homeward Bound!
Sadly the two "spare days" after the end of CODI 2005 have flown by and tomorrow morning we're setting off back to the UK. By the way, just in case anyone wants to know what "the sun going down on CODI 2005" looked like, here it is/was:
We spent most of yesterday in St Paul [...]
CODI 2005 – Day Three (pm)
Planning for Hardware: It Doesn't Have to be Hard (Tim Hyde – tim.hyde@sirsidynix.com)
Tim's presentation covered a lot of the same ground that Jolynn's Planning for 8.0 and 4.2 did. In fact Tim's session was really a summary of what many of us had seen throughout the 3 days. As one of [...]
CODI 2005 – Day Three (am) – pt 2
Tailored Just for U: uPortal Customised for Academics (Dennis Todd)
The HIP 4 admin tool is built on the 8.0 code base and will run on any desktop that can run Java.
Dennis had prepared a useful "HIP 4.1 Customisation Parameter List" document, but it wasn't too obvious where this was going to be available to download [...]
CODI 2005 – Day Three (am)
Insights into Web Reporter and NarrowCast (Eileen Kontrovitz & Brian Rawlings)
Wonderful product, but the roll-out hasn't been the best!(Brian Rawlings, Alpha G)
Optional components (add on services) for Web Reporter…
OLAP – used for data mining:
report objects – include items included in the SQL but not included in the report (e.g. correct sorting by "reconst" fields such [...]